# Old Movie Title I Can't Find **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855 "2008-01-24T20:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/1 "2008-01-24T20:02:03Z")
I’ve searched IMDB but the searching apparatus in my head is not functioning right today. The plot of the movie I’m looking for is: Three sailors go on leave in NCY for a weekend. Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and some other guy. Singing and dancing galore! I need the name of the movie and the name of the lady that played the cab driver in the movie. Thanks in advance, Jake ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/2 "2008-01-24T20:03:37Z")
On the Town. ETA: [Link](http://imdb.com/title/tt0041716/). The “other guy” was Jules Munshin, and the cabbie was Betty Garrett, who you may remember from _All in the Family_ and other sitcoms. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/3 "2008-01-24T20:07:50Z")
[QUOTE=Jake] Three sailors go on leave in NCY for a weekend. [/QUOTE] If NCY means Nancy, she’s going to be very sore on Monday. Sorry, Twickster beat me to it with the actual information you wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/4 "2008-01-24T20:13:44Z")
AH! Of course, now that I see the title its :smack: time for me. Thanks for the quick response **twickster**. Your name shall go on the board hanging over my fireplace as being a Charlie GoodGuy. As soon as I get one. Board, I mean. Fireplace too. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/5 "2008-01-24T20:17:54Z")
That is, I mean that is sir, NYC. Don’tchu mess with no Nancy. She got walkin’ boots. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/6 "2008-01-24T20:24:33Z")
“New York New York, it’s a hell of a town – the Bronx is up and the Battery down – the people ride in a hole in the ground …” ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/7 "2008-01-24T20:28:11Z")
FYI: imdb has a feature where you can search for media in which two or more people work together. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/8 "2008-01-24T20:34:12Z")
Thanks **54,** I,ll check that out. Shouldn’t that be 54/40 and fighting? ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/9 "2008-01-25T00:07:37Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] “New York New York, it’s a hell of a town – the Bronx is up and the Battery down – the people ride in a hole in the ground …” [/QUOTE] Not in that movie it wasn’t. In that movie, New York was a “wonderful” town. After all, Gene, Frank, and Jules played sailors. They wouldn’t swear, now would they. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/10 "2008-01-25T00:30:36Z")
[QUOTE=Julius Henry] Not in that movie it wasn’t. In that movie, New York was a “wonderful” town. After all, Gene, Frank, and Jules played sailors. They wouldn’t swear, now would they. [/QUOTE] :smack: ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/11 "2008-01-25T00:34:35Z")
Springfield, however, _is_ a hell of a town. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/12 "2008-01-25T00:40:33Z")
What sort of message board is this? ☹ That answer took a whole minute! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/13 "2008-01-25T04:05:02Z")
Duplicate post…disregard… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-movie-title-i-cant-find/434855/14 "2008-01-25T04:06:55Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] “New York New York, it’s a hell of a town – the Bronx is up and the Battery down – the people ride in a hole in the ground …” [/QUOTE] o/`Oh, I'm a gumdrop, A sweet lollipop, A brook trout right out of the brook, And what's more, baby, I can cook! o/` Probably the greatest innuendo-laden song of the 40s. And changing the lyric to “wonderful town” was stupid. That’s a [whole different show](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Town)!