For Me and My Gal

Gene Kelly's film debut. It is known that Judy Garland got him the job after seeing him in the Broadway musical "Pal Joey". Kelly made films in a variety of genres over the next few years but became best known for his energetic dancing style in MGM hits such as Urlaub in Hollywood (1945), Das ist New York (1949), and Ein Amerikaner in Paris (1951). Kelly, who was a choreographer and director as well as a dancer and singer, received a special Academy Award in 1951 in recognition of his outstanding achievement as an actor, dancer, singer and director. He also received a Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 1985. The song "For Me and My Gal" became one of Kelly's signature songs.

At the start, the year "1916" is shown on the screen. Later in the film, there is a newspaper headline that the liner Lusitania had been sunk. The timing is off because the ship was sunk in May of 1915.

A picture of an infantry soldier in New York harbor and the text "America needs your money. Buy war bonds and stamps at this theatre."

There is a 1993 colorized version of the film that aired on TNT

Edited into American Masters: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)