The Andrews Sisters Filmography

Born:: Minneapolis, MN
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Called upon to help support their Greek-Norwegian family when their father's business was wiped out by the Depression, little Laverne, Patty, and Maxene Andrews began their professional singing career. In their first radio and vaudeville appearances, the Andrews girls consciously emulated the...Read More

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Holiday Fire

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: This ambient release contains images of a yuletide fireplace that allows anyone with a TV to turn their own home into a Christmas wonderland. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Disney's Storybook Classics

Synopsis: This collection of classic fables feature titles like "Little Toot" from 1948, "Chicken Little" from 1943, "The Grasshopper and The Ant" from 1934 and "Peter and the Wolf" from 1946. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Red Sky at Morning

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a novel by Richard Bradford, an adolescent boy and his mother are sent to live in New Mexico after his father goes off to fight WW II. The move is hard on both mother and son. The boy, one of the few whites in the area, must deal with making friends, the strange new land Read More

1971
Disneyland: Adventures in Fantasy

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: Disneyland host Walt Disney endeavors to demonstrate how inanimate objects can become "human", with the attendant full range of emotions and problems, in the wonderful world of animation. To demonstrate, Walt has three otherwise non-living objects narrate a series of cartoon segments, lifted from Read More

1957
Melody Time

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dennis Day

Synopsis: Disney was known for combining his musical cartoon shorts into interesting feature-length anthologies and Melody Time is one of the best. But for the fact that all of the featured segments have musical themes, they vary widely in musical and artistic style. Included are the exciting "Bumble Read More

1948
Road to Rio

Actors: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: Road to Rio was the first of three "Road" pictures jointly produced by stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. On the run from the law again, musicians Bob and Bing stow away on an ocean liner. They try to come to the rescue of heiress Dorothy Lamour, who is doomed to an arranged marriage to caddish George Meeker Read More

1947
Make Mine Music

Actors: Benny Goodman, Sterling Holloway, Dinah Shore, David Lichine

Synopsis: In his first postwar animated feature, Walt Disney attempted to repeat the Fantasia formula, substituting "pop" music for the Classics. Make Mine Music consists of ten unrelated cartoon vignettes, each one featuring a popular recording artist. "A Rustic Ballad" is the story of the Martin-Coy Read More

1946
Her Lucky Night

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1945
Follow the Boys

Actors: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charles Grapewin, George Macready, Charles Butterworth, Regis Toomey, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act Read More

1944
Swingtime Johnny

Actors: Maxene Andrews, LaVerne Andrews, Peter Cookson

Synopsis: If one were forced to choose, Swingtime Johnny may well be the best of the Andrews Sisters' 1940 "B"-musicals. Patty, Maxine and Laverne Andrews play three popular singers (what a stretch!) who do their bit for Uncle Sam by landing jobs in a defense factory. When they're not hammering and Read More

1944
Moonlight and Cactus

Synopsis: The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1944
Hollywood Canteen

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Robert Hutton, Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Bette Davis, Julie Bishop, John Garfield, Betty Brodel, Barbara Brown, Sydney Greenstreet

Synopsis: The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film stars Bette Davis and John Garfield. The Canteen was established so that Our Boys on leave in Tinseltown could have a good time with good food and good dancing -- and, as a Read More

1944
How's About It?

Actors: Robert Paige, Grace McDonald, Shemp Howard, Walter Catlett, Buddy Rich

Synopsis: In this musical, the three Andrews Sisters play elevator operators who work in an office building containing a music publishing business. The girls, all aspiring singers, hope to get a break while working there. Another resident in the building, a songwriter must cope with a plagiarism suit served Read More

1943
Always a Bridesmaid

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Patric Knowles, Grace McDonald, Billy Gilbert, Charles Butterworth

Synopsis: The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club which is used as a front by con artist Colonel Winchester (Charles Butterworth). Trying to promote a phony formula for synthetic rubber, Winchester gets Read More

1943
What's Cookin'?

Actors: Dorothy Babbs, Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Gloria Jean, Leo Carrillo

Synopsis: There's plenty cookin' in this brisk, breezy Andrews Sisters vehicle. The plot, such as it is, concerns the efforts by a group of entertainers to package a weekly musical radio show. Their biggest obstacle is a lack of sponsorship, but this is overcome when eccentric business executive J. P. Read More

1942
Private Buckaroo

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Dick Foran, Joe E. Lewis, Jennifer Holt, Shemp Howard

Synopsis: This upbeat WW II-era musical features performances by the Andrews Sisters and Harry James as it tells the story of a rebellious young inductee who has trouble toeing the line until he meets a retired officer's lovely daughter. James and his band are also drafted and decide to perk up their camp Read More

1942
Give Out, Sisters

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Grace McDonald, Dan Dailey, Charles Butterworth, Walter Catlett

Synopsis: The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her Read More

1942
Buck Privates

Actors: Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, The Andrews Sisters, Jane Frazee

Synopsis: Filmed on a B-picture budget, Buck Privates was Universal's biggest box-office hit of 1941, firmly securing the movie popularity of the studio's hot new team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The story is fairly evenly divided between the antics of Bud and Lou-here cast as sidewalk salesmen Slicker Read More

1941
Hold That Ghost

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Joan Davis, Richard Carlson, Evelyn Ankers, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Hold That Ghost was the second of Abbott and Costello's starring films, but was held back from release in favor of their third picture, the more "topical" In the Navy. In Ghost, Bud and Lou play a couple of service-station owners who happen to be hanging around when gangster Moose Mattson (William B. Davidson Read More

1941
In the Navy

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell, Claire Dodd, The Andrews Sisters

Synopsis: The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle off Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates, and the studio wanted another "service" comedy put into circulation in a hurry. Abbott and Costello share over-the-title billing Read More

1941
Argentine Nights

Actors: The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], The Andrews Sisters, Constance Moore, George Reeves, Peggy Moran

Synopsis: The Andrews Sisters made their screen debut in Argentine Nights, but the stars of the show are the Ritz Brothers, in the first of their four Universal vehicles. The wafer-thin plotline finds the Ritz boys showing up flat broke in Argentina with an all-girl band. Despite their utter lack of funds Read More

1940
World War II: The Music Video, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This music compilation of great songs from World War II includes performers like the Andrew Sisters, Big Crosby, Kate Smith, Benny Goodman and Bob Hope. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
The Battle of the Baritones
Music Classics, Vol. 6

Synopsis: The 1940s was a monumental decade for the United States. Amid World War II, economic recovery, and the start of the Cold War, American music provided a soundtrack to a generation. The Music Classics line from MPI Home Video attempts to offer the chance to relieve the era with a ten-volume series Read More