Dream Girl (1948 film)

Dream Girl
Directed by	Mitchell Leisen
Written by	Elmer Rice Arthur Sheekman
Starring	Betty Hutton Macdonald Carey Patric Knowles Virginia Field
Cinematography	Daniel L. Fapp
Edited by	Alma Macrorie
Music by	Victor Young
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 27, 1948 (1948-07-27)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dream Girl is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen, adapted from the 1945 play of the same name written by Elmer Rice. It stars Betty Hutton and Macdonald Carey.

Plot

A daydreamer, Georgie Allerton's imagination goes to work while she falls in love with her sister Miriam's husband-to-be, Jim Lucas. She closes her eyes and has a fantasy of what life with Jim would be like, ignoring the genuine attentions of Clark Redfield, an honest but poor newspaper reporter.

Jim goes through with the marriage to Miriam, which leaves Georgie considering an offer from suitor George Hand to go to Mexico with him. Another daydream begins, in which Georgie is now a singer in a tropical setting, killing herself after a tragic love affair.

Jim's publishing business and marriage go badly, resulting in a trip to Reno for a quick divorce. He actually has fallen for Georgie now, but this time, when her reverie results in her dreaming about a life on a ranch, Clark's wooing wins her over and she wakes up to realize she's in love.

Cast

• Betty Hutton as Georgiana Allerton
• Macdonald Carey as Clark Redfield
• Patric Knowles as Jim Lucas
• Virginia Field as Miriam Allerton Lucas
• Walter Abel as George Allerton
• Peggy Wood as Lucy Allerton
• Carolyn Butler as Claire Bleakley
• Lowell Gilmore as George Hand
• Zamah Cunningham as Mme. Kimmelhoff (music teacher)
• Frank Puglia as Antonio
• Georgia Backus as Edna
• Charles Meredith as Charles

External links

• Dream Girl at IMDb