''She's Back on Broadway'' is a 1953 musical

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in WarnerColor. It is Virginia Mayo's last musical film. Her singing voice was dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams. The film was Mayo's unofficial follow-up to her 1952 musical hit '' She's Working Her Way Through College''.

Plot

When Catherine Terris's (

Virginia Mayo Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones; November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American actress and dancer. She was in a series of comedy films with Danny Kaye and was Warner Brothers' biggest box-office money-maker in the late 1940s. ...

) career in Hollywood hits the skids, she heads back to the site of her first great triumphs...Broadway! She takes the lead in a play which is being directed by Rick Sommers (

Steve Cochran Steve Cochran (born Robert Alexander Cochran, May 25, 1917 – June 15, 1965) was an American film, television and stage actor. He attended the University of Wyoming. After a stint working as a cowboy, Cochran developed his acting skills in loca ...

), the man who was both her Svengali and her lover. Sommers is still bitter that she walked out on him to become the toast of Hollywood years earlier. Can Terris and Sommers put aside their mutual animosity long enough to make a go of this production? After the way things start off, it doesn't seem likely.

Cast

as Catherine Terris *

Gene Nelson Gene Nelson (born Leander Eugene Berg; March 24, 1920 – September 16, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, screenwriter, and director. Biography Born Leander Eugene Berg in Astoria, Oregon, he and his family moved to Seattle when he was ...

as Gordon Evans *

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as John Webber *

as Rick Sommers * Patrice Wymore as Karen Keene *

Virginia Gibson Virginia Gibson (born Virginia Gorski; April 9, 1925 – April 25, 2013) was an American dancer, singer and actress of film, television and musical theatre. Early years Of Polish and Irish lineage, Gibson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo ...

as Angela Korinna *

Larry Keating Lawrence Keating (June 13, 1899 – August 26, 1963) was an American actor best known for his roles as Harry Morton on ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'', which he played from 1953 to 1958, and next-door neighbor Roger Addison on '' Mist ...

as Mitchell Parks *

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as Jud Kellogg *

Nedrick Young Nedrick Young (March 23, 1914 – September 16, 1968), also known by the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas, was an American actor and screenwriter often blacklisted during the 1950s and 1960s for refusing to confirm or deny membership of the Comm ...

as Rafferty * Jacqueline deWit as Lisa Kramer * Steve Condos as Specialty Dancer (as Condos) * Jerry Brandow as Specialty Dancer (as Brandow) * Douglas Spencer as Lew Ludlow *

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as Velma Trumbull * Lenny Sherman as Ernest Tandy * Cliff Ferre as Lyn Humphries * Ray Kyle as Mickey Zealand * Sy Milano as Baritone Singer

Musical numbers

*1) Overture/I'll Take You/Behind the Mask - Played by Orchestra *2) I May Be Wrong - Sung by Gene Nelson *3) I'll Take You - Sung and Danced by Virginia Mayo (dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams) and Gene Nelson *4) One Step Ahead - Sung and Danced by Patrice Wymore, Steve Condos and Jerry Brandow *5) Break the Ties That Bind You - Sung by Virginia Mayo (dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams) *6) Breakfast in Bed - Sung and Danced by Virginia Mayo (dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams) and Chorus *7) Mardi Gras - Sung by Sy Milano and Chorus, then Danced by Patrice Wymore and Chorus *7.1) Behind the Mask - Sung by Sy Milano, then Danced by Virginia Mayo and Chorus *7.2) Mardi Gras (reprise) - Danced by Gene Nelson *7.3) Behind the Mask (reprise) - Sung by Chorus, Danced by Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson and Chorus *8) I'll Take You (reprise) - Sung and Danced by Virginia Mayo (dubbed by Bonnie Lou Williams), Gene Nelson and Chorus

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