Pirate The (1948)

Pirate The (1948)

If you believe in love at first site you might enjoy this average Musical featuring Gene Kelly Judy Garland and Walter Slezak; Gladys Cooper also appears as Garland’s Aunt Inez. Kelly plays an actor who pretends to be a notorious pirate to win orphan dreamer Garland away from her dull fiancĂ© Slezak. The joke’s on Garland though since unbeknownst to her though known to Kelly Slezak actually IS the notorious pirate who’s now hiding out as the mayor of their small town on the Caribbean. Reginald Owen George Zucco and the dancing Nicholas Brothers also appear. The film’s Score which includes Cole Porter songs like "Be a Clown" was nominated for an Academy Award. Directed by Vincente Minnelli with some clever dialogue by screenplay writers Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett (The Thin Man (1934)) based on S.N. Behrman’s play.

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