The I Don't Care Girl (1953)
This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
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Mitzi Gaynor as Eva Tanguay |
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David Wayne as Ed McCoy |
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Oscar Levant as Charles Bennett |
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Warren Stevens as Keene |
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Craig Hill as Lawrence |
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Hazel Brooks as Stella Forrest |
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Bob Graham as Larry Woods |
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Gwen Verdon as Specialty Dancer |
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Lovyss Bradley as Nurse |
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Marjorie Holliday as Secretary |
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George Conrad as Dresser |
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Marietta Canty as Dolly |
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Barrie Chase as Dancer |
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Jean Darling as Lilyan Tashman |
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Jimmie Dodd as Will Rogers |
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Fred Essler as Dutchman |
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Frank Ferguson as Ned |
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Wilton Graff as Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld |
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Joyce Mackenzie as Babette |
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Matt Mattox as Dancer |
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Julie Newmar as Speciality Dancer - 'Beale Street Blues' |
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Bill Walker as Cook |
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Dorothy Neumann as Cashier |
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Ray Montgomery as Army Lieutenant |
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Nolan Leary as Stage Doorman |
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Jimmie Horan as Audience Member |
| Art | Richard Irvine | Art Direction |
| Sound | Herbert W. Spencer | Music |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ben Nye | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Raymond Boltz Jr. | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Lloyd Bacon | Director |
| Production | George Jessel | Producer |
| Writing | Walter Bullock | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Renié | Costume Design |
| Art | Lyle R. Wheeler | Art Direction |
| Editing | Louis R. Loeffler | Editor |
| Art | Thomas Little | Set Decoration |
| Camera | Arthur E. Arling | Director of Photography |
