Coney Island (1943 film)
| Coney Island | |
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Original film poster | |
| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Written by | George Seaton |
| Produced by | William Perlberg |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
| Edited by | Robert Simpson |
| Music by | Original music: Ralph Rainger Non original music: Otto Harbach |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.6 million |
| Box office | $3.305 million (U.S. and Canada rentals) |
Coney Island is a 1943 American Technicolor musical film released by Twentieth Century Fox and starring Betty Grable in one of her biggest hits. A "gay nineties" musical (set in that time period), it also featured George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, and Phil Silvers, was choreographed by Hermes Pan, and was directed by Walter Lang. Betty Grable also starred in the 1950 remake, Wabash Avenue.
In 1944, the year after the film was released, it was nominated for an Oscar for Alfred Newman in the category of Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture
The film is also known as: Coney Island in Sweden, L'île aux plaisirs in France, L'isola delle sirene in Italy, San oneiro in Greece, Se necesitan maridos in Spain and Tivolin kaunotar in Finland.