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The Best Things in Life Are Free is a american film of genre Musical directed by Michael Curtiz released in USA on 28 september 1956 with Gordon MacRae

The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)

The Best Things in Life Are Free
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Released in USA 28 september 1956
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Musical
Rating60% 3.0004653.0004653.0004653.0004653.000465

The Best Things in Life Are Free is a 1956 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey and Ernest Borgnine as the real-life songwriting team of Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson of the late 1920s and early 1930s; and Sheree North as Kitty Kane, a singer (possibly based on Helen Kane).

In 1957, the year after the film was released, it received an Oscar nomination for Lionel Newman in the category of Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.

Synopsis

Le film raconte l'ascension d'un groupe de Jazz, les Sunny Boys, reprenant l'équipe d'auteurs-compositeurs-interprètes de la Tin Pan Alley composée de Buddy DeSylva, du parolier Lew Brown et du compositeur Ray Henderson de Broadway à Hollywood.

Actors

Gordon MacRae

(B.G. 'Buddy' De Sylva)
Dan Dailey

(Ray Henderson)
Ernest Borgnine

(Lew Brown)
Sheree North

(Kitty Kane)
Sheree North

(Kitty Kane)
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