The I Don't Care Girl

The Wild and Wonderful Musical About the BAD Girl of Show Business!

6.5
19531h 18m

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a story conference to determine the screen treatment for the life of Eva Tanguay, and Jessel is unhappy with what the writers present him.He tells them to look up Eddie McCoy, Eva's one-time partner, for the real inside story on the lusty and vital Eva. Eddie's version is that he discovered her working as a waitress in an Indianapolis restaurant in 1912, wherein singer Larry Woods and his partner Charles Bennett get into a fight over her and both land in the hospital, and McCoy convinces the manager to put Eva on as a single to fill their spot. She flopped, but McCoy arranges for Bennett to be her accompanist, and she went out of his life. The writers look up Bennett, now head of a music publishing company, who says McCoy's story is phony, and it was Flo Zigfeld who discovered Eva for his Follies.

Production

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Cast

Photo of Mitzi Gaynor

Mitzi Gaynor

Eva Tanguay

Photo of David Wayne

David Wayne

Ed McCoy

Photo of Oscar Levant

Oscar Levant

Charles Bennett

Photo of Craig Hill

Craig Hill

Lawrence

Photo of Hazel Brooks

Hazel Brooks

Stella Forrest

Photo of Bob Graham

Bob Graham

Larry Woods

Photo of Gwen Verdon

Gwen Verdon

Specialty Dancer

Photo of Jean Darling

Jean Darling

Lilyan Tashman

Photo of Jimmie Dodd

Jimmie Dodd

Will Rogers

Photo of Fred Essler

Fred Essler

Dutchman

Photo of Wilton Graff

Wilton Graff

Florenz 'Flo' Ziegfeld

Photo of Julie Newmar

Julie Newmar

Speciality Dancer - 'Beale Street Blues'

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