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Fred Astaire | Finian McLonergan | |
Petula Clark | Sharon McLonergan | |
Tommy Steele | ||
Don Francks | Woody Mahoney | |
Jr. Al Freeman | ||
Barbara Hancock | Susan the Silent | |
Keenan Wynn | ||
Brenda Arnau | Sharecropper | |
Ronald Colby | Buzz Collins | |
Al Freeman Jr. | Howard | |
Al Freeman | ||
Roy Glenn | Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer | |
Jester Hairston | Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer | |
Robert S. Holman | Lucas | |
Wright King | District Attorney | |
Avon Long | Passion Pilgrim Gospeleer | |
Louis Silas | Henry |
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Producer | Joseph Landon
Joel Freeman |
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Writer | E.Y. Harburg
Fred Saidy |
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Cinematography | Philip H. Lathrop
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Musician | Burton Lane
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He wears a ratty old cardigan instead of tails, a battered felt hat in place of a topper - but one glimpse of those agile feet and you know he's Fred Astaire. The great entertainer sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian's Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola's exuberant movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a love struck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic. The treasurable Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg score includes How Are Things In Glocca Morra?, Look Into the Rainbow, If This Isn't Love and Old Devil Moon. Watching it, you'll be in clover. Four-leaf all the way. |
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