Rating: NR
Genre: Musical
Release Date: 06/17/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox

The Cole Porter Broadway musical Something for the Boys was brought to the screen by 20th Century Fox with three new non-Porter tunes thrown in. The dated libretto (by Herbert and Dorothy Fields) involves a crumbling Southern plantation which is converted into a home for servicemen's wives. Running the operation are three cousins: Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, and, from the South American branch of the family, Carmen Miranda. When money runs out, the threesome contrive to put on a fundraising show -- which of course looks far too expensive to break even, but since Carmen Miranda's in the picture, who knows. Perry Como makes his movie debut in Something for the Boys singing a handful of pleasant songs, while Judy Holliday shows up in a funny bit as a defense-plant welder with peculiar dental problems.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Carmen Miranda - Chiquita Hart
Michael O'Shea - Staff Sgt. Rocky Fulton
Vivian Blaine - Blossom Hart
Phil Silvers - Harry Hart
Perry Como - Sgt. Laddie Green
Sheila Ryan - Melanie Walker
Glenn Langan - Lt. Ashley Crothers
Roger Clark - Lieutenant
Cara Williams - Secretary
Thurston Hall - Col. Jefferson L. Calhoun
Clarence Kolb - Col. Grubbs
Paul Hurst - Defense plant foreman
Andrew Tombes - Southern Colonel

Production:
Lewis Seiler - Director
Irving Starr - Producer
Robert L. Simpson - Editor
Helen Logan Frank Gabrielson Robert Ellis - Screen Writer
Lyle Wheeler - Art Director
Dorothy Fields - Book Author
Herbert Fields - Book Author
Nick Castle - Choreography
Ernest Palmer - Cinematographer
Kay Nelson - Costume Designer
Yvonne Wood - Costume Designer
Cole Porter - Featured Music
Jimmy McHugh - Featured Music
Charles Henderson - Musical Direction/Supervision
Emil Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Harold Adamson - Songwriter
Albert Hogsett - Art Director