Call Me Mister (film)

Call Me Mister
Betty Grable and Dan Dailey on a Call Me Mister lobby card.
Directed byLloyd Bacon
Written byAlbert E. Lewin
Burt Styler
Based onCall Me Mister
1946 musical
by Harold Rome
Arnold M. Auerbach
Produced byFred Kohlmar
StarringBetty Grable
Dan Dailey
CinematographyArthur E. Arling
Edited byLouis R. Loeffler
Music byLeigh Harline
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox
Release date
  • January 31, 1951 (1951-01-31) (New York)
Running time
96 minutes
LanguageEnglish
Box office$2,175,000 (US rentals)

Call Me Mister is a 1951 American Technicolor musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson, Benay Venuta and Richard Boone. The film is based on the 1946 Broadway stage play by Albert E. Lewin and Burt Styler. with music by Harold Rome that featured cast members from the American armed forces. However, only three of Rome's numbers are heard in the film.