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Meet the People (1944) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Charles Reisner and produced by Arthur Freed.

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Musical Monday: Meet the People (1944)

on Jan 5, 2015 From Comet Over Hollywood

It?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: ?Meet the People? ?Musical ... Read full article


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William 'Swanee' Swanson: [Referring to his jalopy] I know this looks like a traveling scrap heap, but it's really poetry on wheels.
Julie Hampton: [Dryly, as the engine makes grinding noises] I see what you mean.


Julie Hampton: [after kissing hundreds of shipyard workers] Now I know how a trumpeteer feels!


The Commander: You must come up and launch with me sometime.


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In a radio interview, Spike Jones stated that the ape that plays Hitler is the same ape that appears in the Tarzan movies.
This movie was shown overseas to servicemen before it was released in the United States.
Daws Butler, the voice actor for Hanna Barbera cartoon characters, patterned the voice of the lion Snagglepuss after Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. Butler took Snagglepuss's catchphrase "Heavens to Mergatroid" from Bert Lahr's having said it in the movie Meet the People.
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Also directed by Charles Reisner




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