On the Town

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On the Town

1949 · Movie · 96 min

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  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer94%as of 2025-02-12
  • Rotten Tomatoes average8/10as of 2021-10-10

What it is

On the Town is a 1949 American Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944, although many changes in the script and score were made to the original stage version; for instance, most of Bernstein's score was dropped in favor of new songs by Edens, who

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Genres
Music
Original language
English

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