The Pirate

The Pirate (1948)

Timing: 1:42 (102 min)

6.494/10
88

7.081/10
479

6.9/10
6000

All about film

Video 6

Photo 7

Actors and characters

Release date

1948-06-11

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Genre

Music, Romance, Comedy, Adventure

Budget

$3 700 000

Revenue

$2 956 000

Website

Director

Vincente Minnelli

Actors

Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, George Zucco, Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas, Lester Allen, Lola Albright
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Arthur Freed

Operator

Harry Stradling Sr.

Composer

Lennie Hayton

Artist

Audition

Editing

Blanche Sewell
All team (40)

• Gene Kelly (1912-1996) and Judy Garland went to great lengths to include a dance duet by the Nicholas Brothers in the film. They succeeded, but the scene with the dancers was cut from the film in Memphis and other cities in the American South due to the dancers' skin color.
• Cole Porter was asked to write songs for the film. He agreed on the condition that the filmmakers change the name of the main character (who was called Estrumondo in the play) to Macoco – the name of Porter's friend.
• A passionate romance between Judy Garland and Gene Kelly during the dance to the composition «Voodoo» enraged MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) so much that he demanded the negatives be burned.
• When a sea breeze blows Manuela’s hat off, a wire attached to it, which is being pulled, becomes clearly visible.