Mother Wore Tights (1947)

Betty Grable, Robert Arthur, Dan Dailey, Veda Ann Borg, Mona Freeman ... see more  , Connie Marshall , Vanessa Brown , Chick Chandler , Maude Eburne , Sara Allgood , Michael Dunne , Antonio Filauri , George Cleveland , William Forrest , William Frawley , Kathleen Lockhart , Ruth Nelson , Frank Orth , Lee Patrick , Sig Rumann , Anabel Shaw , Lotte Stein , Senor Wences , Kenny Williams , Will Wright , Anne Baxter , Harry V. Cheshire , Stephen Dunne , Billy M. Greene , Karolyn Grimes , Alvin Hammer , Ted Jordan , Lee MacGregor , Eula Morgan , Harry Seymour , Brad Slaven , Tom Stevenson , David Thursby , Tom Moore , George Davis

A woman looks back at her childhood in show business in this musical comedy. At the turn of the century, Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is working her way through business school and gets a job dancin... read more g at a San Francisco vaudeville house. She meets fellow hoofer Frank Burt (Dan Dailey), and they soon fall in love. Marriage follows, and Myrtle and Frank begin performing a song and dance act on the road. Myrtle leaves the act when she becomes pregnant with the first of two children, but when the kids are old enough to go out on tour, she and Frank work them into the act, and they learn to live out of a suitcase like their parents. Years later, Iris (Mona Freeman) and Mikie (Connie Marshall) are attending college when they learn that Mom and Dad have pulled their act out of mothballs -- and are booked to perform at a theatre near their campus. Mother Wore Tights won an Academy Award for Best Musical Score, and it was nominated for Best Song ("You Do") and Best Color Cinematography; the great Mexican ventriloquist Senor Wences appears as himself. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi