Pal Joey (1957)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

George Sidney

Escritores:

Dorothy Kingsley (screenplay) and
John O'Hara (book)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 octubre 1957 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Musical | Romance

Frase comercial:

From Your Pal, Columbia!

Plot:

Joey Evans is charming, handsome, funny, talented, and a first class, A-number-one heel. When Joey meets...

Plot Keywords:

Chorus Girl | Womanizer | Charity Auction | Jealousy | Striptease

Premios:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

John O'Hara, he could write a book

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Reparto

Rita Hayworth	...	Vera Simpson
Frank Sinatra	...	Joey Evans
Kim Novak	...	Linda English
Barbara Nichols	...	Gladys
Bobby Sherwood	...	Ned Galvin
Hank Henry	...	Mike Miggins
Elizabeth Patterson	...	Mrs. Casey

También conocida como:

Sus dos cariños (Mexico) (cable TV title) [es]

Duración:

111 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Finland:S | UK:PG | USA:Approved | West Germany:6

Locaciones de Filmación:

Berkeley Train Station - 4th Street and University Avenue, Berkeley, California, USA

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

Rita Hayworth's own singing voice is heard in the introductions to her songs otherwise dubbed by Jo Ann Greer.

Errores:

Continuidad: When the butler approaches Mrs. Simpson's table to announce that Joey wants to see her, she has her hands on the table. The subsequent shot shows her lowering the juice glass, just after to drink a little.

Citas:

Joey Evans: Good Morning!
Linda English: What's good about it?
Joey Evans: First hangover? Well, there's a first time for everything.
Linda English: Why do people drink when you feel so awful the morning after?
Joey Evans: Maybe because it feels so good the night before.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Full House: Pal Joey (#2.15)" (1989)

Banda de Sonido:

That Terrific Rainbow

John O'Hara, he could write a book

In his career Frank Sinatra did two film adaptions of Rodgers and Hart musicals. The first was Higher and Higher which was his first feature film speaking part. Pal Joey was the second and it is probably the greatest show Rodgers and Hart ever did.

When it debuted on Broadway in 1941 it got good, but not great reviews. But everyone loved the Rodgers and Hart score. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and I Could Write a Book were the big hits of the show and were retained for the film.

Pal Joey may have been ahead of its times. It was revived in 1951 and ran twice as long as it did in its original production. The reviews were far better. To say this is unusual is putting it mildly.

On Broadway, Joey Evans who we would now call a lounge lizard was played by Gene Kelly and in the revival by Harold Lang. The part really fit Sinatra perfectly. But the role had to be changed from a dancing part to a singing part. I believe that was the reason for the interpolation of other Rodgers and Hart songs in the film.

And Sinatra sings some good ones in Pal Joey. Added in for the filmgoers listening pleasure are There's A Small Hotel, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, and The Lady is a Tramp, the last one becoming a Sinatra standard in his live concerts. Movie singing don't get too much better than this.

Frank is an ambitious man of rather low morals who is caught between rich widow Rita Hayworth and ingenue Kim Novak. He loves Kim, but Rita can give him financial security. These are the kind of people that populate the John O'Hara world, very real and not too noble.

Although a few years later Frank Sinatra sang a concert version of Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered with a hundred piece orchestra for his Reprise record label, it is in fact a woman's song as is My Funny Valentine. Rita does Bewitched as well as Zip. The latter song is a tribute number to Gypsy Rose Lee as Rita plays an ex-stripper. My Funny Valentine is done by Kim Novak.

When I say done, both ladies mouthed the words, but the vocals were dubbed as they always were for Ms. Hayworth. And I guess that had to be because both Hayworth and Novak could never have had the parts done by the best of vocalists.

As Pal Joey came to the screen in 1957 along with The Joker is Wild, my favorite Sinatra film, I've always picked that year as the year Old Blue Eyes was at the height of his career. His acting is impeccable and his singing, some of the best he ever did on screen.