Present Arms, 1928

Who was in it45 named

James H Beattie
Gaile Beverley
Milton Brodus
Dorothy Brown
Rachel Chester
Evelyn Crowell
William Culloo
Louis Delgado
Demaris Dore
Jack Douglas
Frank Gagen
Sherry Gale
Aline Green
Frances Hess
Florence Hunter
Louise Joyce
Henrietta Kay
Frank Kimball
Anthony Knilling
Charlotte la Rose
Richard Lane
Edward Larkin
Alexander Lewis
Frank Losee
Jerome Maxwell
Glenn Mccomas
Jock Mcgraw
Fuller Mellish
Beth Meredith
Walter Pharr
Polly Ray
Wilburn Riviere
Alma Ross
Patricia Ross
Sydney Smith
Robert Spencer
Thomas Sternfeld
Marion Stuart
Wanda Wood
Franker Woods
Jessica Worth

Creative team

Director

Alexander Leftwich

Choreographer

Busby Berkeley

Around this production

Present Arms is a Broadway musical comedy that opened April 26, 1928, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and the book by Herbert Fields. It was produced by Lew Fields, with musical numbers staged by Busby Berkeley. It ran for 155 performances at the Lew Fields' Mansfield Theatre, which is known as the Lena Horne Theatre today. Present Arms was filmed in 1930 with Irene Dunne, with its title changed to Leathernecking. The film is presumed lost.

'When I was walking down the street, I saw a little bird who called “tweet-tweet,” I shook my head and said instead, ‘Cause you took advantage of me. It was awful, but! got through it; I can still see poor Larry Hart running up and down in the wings, almost apoplectic.' Broadway To Hollywood Musicals From Stage To Screen Aylesworth Thomas G London U, p. 43