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Release Date: 1991
Cast: Dori Brenner, George Segal, Vince Vaughn, Arye Gross, Norman Fell, Christopher Rydell, Steven Kampmann, James Caan, Bette Midler, Patrick O'Neal, Melissa Manchester, Richard Portnow ...MORE
Cast: Dori Brenner, George Segal, Vince Vaughn, Arye Gross, Norman Fell, Christopher Rydell, Steven Kampmann, James Caan, Bette Midler, Patrick O'Neal, Melissa Manchester, Richard Portnow, Bud Yorkin, Andy Dick, Rosemary Murphy, Shannon Wilcox, Michael Greene, Pattie Darcy, Jack Sheldon ...LESS
Categories: Movies, War Film, Musical Drama, Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Comedy-Drama, Drama Film, Period Piece
For the Boys is a 1991 film which tells the story of Dixie Leonard, a 1940s actress/singer who teams up with Eddie Sparks, a famous performer to entertain American troops. The film traces her life through 50 years. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin.
The film was adapted by Marshall Brickman, Neal Jimenez and Lindy Laub from a story by Jimenez and Laub. It was directed by Mark Rydell. It stars Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Christopher Rydell, Arye Gross and Norman Fell.
Bette Midler was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her... MORE
For the Boys is a 1991 film which tells the story of Dixie Leonard, a 1940s actress/singer who teams up with Eddie Sparks, a famous performer to entertain American troops. The film traces her life through 50 years. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin.
The film was adapted by Marshall Brickman, Neal Jimenez and Lindy Laub from a story by Jimenez and Laub. It was directed by Mark Rydell. It stars Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Christopher Rydell, Arye Gross and Norman Fell.
Bette Midler was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. The movie soundtrack features adaptations of many classic songs, including "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser, "P.S. I Love You", "I Remember You", "Every Road Leads Back To You" and the Beatles' "In My Life". Many of these have lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Although the film is fiction, actress/singer Martha Raye believed that Midler's character was based on many widely-known facts about her life and career with the USO and pursued legal action based on that assumption, but ultimately lost the case. The Caan character was generally believed to be based on LESS
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