Movie: Anchors Aweigh (1945)

• Director: George Sidney
• Release Date: 27 October 1949 (Hong Kong)
• Writers: Isobel Lennart (screenplay) Natalie Marcin (suggested by a story by)
• Run Time: 143 min | USA:140 min (DVD version)
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Musical , Romance

Tagline: On waves of song . . . laughter and romance ! Two love-lost sailors on a four-day leave of fun and frivolity !

Trivia: This was the first film project for Pamela Britton.

Goofs: Errors in geography: When Joe and Clarence arrive in Los Angeles for shore leave, they walk within view of a red neon sign that says “Hollywood”. The actual Hollywood sign is set in the Hollywood Hills, with 45-foot-tall white letters and no neon.

“Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, is the setting for this movie musical. Written by Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>”