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Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American musical comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, with songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Directed by George Sidney , the film also features José Iturbi , Pamela Britton , and Dean Stockwell .
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
The song is sung as "If You Knew Susie As We Know Susie" by Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in the film Anchors Aweigh (1945), with more suggestive lyrics, such as "She's not choosy". The song is sung in Ziegfeld Follies (1946). A film by the same name, starring Cantor, was released in 1948. The song is sung in the biopic The Eddie Cantor Story ...
As Sinatra's singing career grew, he appeared in larger roles in feature films, several of which were musicals, including three alongside Gene Kelly: Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949) and Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949). [2]
"Anchors Aweigh" is the fight song of the United States Naval Academy and unofficial march song of the United States Navy. It was composed in 1906 by Charles A. Zimmermann with lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles.
The film won an Academy Award for its music; "I Fall in Love Too Easily" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, [1] which it lost to Rodgers and Hammerstein's "It Might as Well Be Spring". Sammy Cahn has said of the conception of the sixteen-bar song: "This song was written one night in Palm Springs. When I sang the last ...
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
Anchors Aweigh", a song associated with the U.S. Navy Anchors Aweigh (film) , the 1945 movie starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra Anchors Aweigh (album) , by the New Jersey punk band Bouncing Souls