On the Town

by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Betty Comden Adolph Green

$375 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., Circa 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film musical, showing director and actor Gene Kelly in uniform as Gabey, laughing in the clouds with a typically leggy Vera-Ellen. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso.Based on the 1944 stage musical by Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and Leonard Bernstein. Three US Navy sailors on 24 hour shore leave hit the streets of New York searching for romance and pleasure.

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