Actors: Constance Dowling, Dana Andrews, Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore
Director: Elliot Nugent
Studio: RKO
Condition: Fine
Size: U.S. One Sheet
Original RKO One Sheet Poster (27x41). Style A Fine condition.
Original RKO One Sheet Poster (27x41) for the Elliott Nugent musical comedy, UP IN ARMS (1944) starring Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, and Constance Dowling. Samuel Goldwyn had been trying to sign Kaye to a movie contract for two years before he finally agreed. Goldwyn put him in a series of Technicolor musicals beginning with this picture. The story revolves around Kaye's character, a hypochondriac that gets drafted and makes life miserable for his fellow soldiers. Kaye steals every scene he is in, deftly switching into and out of a pastiche of popular song styles, slang, scat, and even an African-American impersonation. The film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Musical Score and Best Original Song ("Now I Know").