MovieComedyMusic
Best Foot Forward
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Honey of a Musical
6.8(5)19431h 35m
Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.
- Director
- Edward Buzzell
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Cast
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
William Gaxton
Jack O'Riley
Virginia Weidler
Helen Schlesinger
Tommy Dix
Elwood C. "Bud" Hooper
Nancy Walker
Nancy - Blind Date
June Allyson
Ethel
Kenny Bowers
Dutch Miller
Gloria DeHaven
Minerva Fierce
Jack Jordan
Harvey "Hunk" Hoyt
Chill Wills
Chester Short
Henry O'Neill
Maj. Roger W. Reeber
Sara Haden
Miss Talbert
Donald MacBride
Capt. Bradd
Bob Stebbins
Greenie
Darwood Kaye
Killer
Morris Ankrum
Col. Harkrider
Nana Bryant
Mrs. Dalrymple
Harry James
Himself
Harry Hayden
Prof. Walter Morton
Isabel Randolph
Mrs. Morton
Stanley Donen
Cadet
Bess Flowers
Prom Guest
Harry Duff
Cadet (uncredited)
John Allbule
Cadet
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Crew
Directing
- Edward BuzzellDirector
Writing
- Irving BrecherScreenplay
- Fred F. FinklehoffeScreenplay
- John Cecil HolmNovel
Production
- Arthur FreedProducer
Camera
- Leonard SmithDirector of Photography
Editing
- Blanche SewellEditor
Sound
- Hugh MartinSongs
- Ralph BlaneSongs
- Lennie HaytonOriginal Music Composer
Art
- Cedric GibbonsArt Direction
- Edwin B. WillisSet Decoration
Costume & Make-Up
- Gile SteeleCostume Design
- IreneCostume Supervisor
- I. MillerShoe Design