| Best
Foot Forward
MGM
produced a movie version of Best Foot Forward which was
released in 1943. The film version included some of the original
Broadway cast, including Kenny Bowers. Directed by Edward Buzzell
and written by John Cecil Holm and Irving Brecher, the film version
starred Lucille Ball as herself.
Filming
for Best Foot Forward began on January 18, 1943 and was completed
on March 24, 1943. The World Premiere was in New York on June
29, 1943 and the film went into general release in October, 1943.
In
the book The MGM Story, author John Douglas Eames writes,
“From the New York cast came young star prospects Nancy
Walker, Tommy Dix, June Allyson, Kenny Bowers and Jack Jordan:
June was the one destined to make it big.” Below is a still
from Best Foot Forward showing Kenny Bowers with Lucille
Ball.
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