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Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture | 1951
Best Written American Musical | 1951
The year she made this, Doris Day also made her first appearance in the Quigley Top 25 Box Office Stars poll, placing at #24. She would remain on the list every year until she retired from making movies in 1968, and was ranked #1 four times in the early 1960s.
This was the first time James Cagney and Doris Day appeared in the same film. Five years later, they would co-star in Love Me or Leave Me (1955), one of the best musical biopics ever made. Day would garner some of the best reviews of her career (and also top the Billboard Charts with her soundtrack album) while Cagney would be Oscar nominated for Best Actor.
By 1950, James Cagney hadn't made a musical in nearly a decade. On the heels of White Heat (1949), Warner Bros. combined both of his screen images in a humorous vein, and Cagney throws as many punches in The West Point Story (1950) as he did in any of his gangster flicks.
The only one of Doris Day's Warner Bros. musicals that was not issued as a soundtrack album.
James Cagney's first film directed by Roy Del Ruth since "Lady Killer" 17 years earlier; it was the fifth of six they made together.
"Eve Dillon: You heel! Can't even pay a hotel bill! In debt up to your ears, and it's horses! Horses every second you're awake! Horses, horses, horses! Elwin 'Bix' Bixby: [unapologetically] I don't drink or smoke."
"Elwin 'Bix' Bixby: Take 10, sweetheart. Eve Dillon: [angrily] Take 10? I've been "taking 10" ever since I've known you - watching you fight your way to the bottom! Elwin 'Bix' Bixby: [unperturbed] I don't fight, baby. I'm a lover."
