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Cuesta arriba

Título original: Higher and Higher
  • 1943
  • Approved
  • 1h 30min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.0/10
858
TU CALIFICACIÓN
Frank Sinatra, Michèle Morgan, Leon Errol, Barbara Hale, Jack Haley, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Marcy McGuire, and Dooley Wilson in Cuesta arriba (1943)
ComedyMusicalRomance

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaWith their employer bankrupt, servants scheme to marry maid Millie to a rich husband. But Frank Sinatra lives across the street...With their employer bankrupt, servants scheme to marry maid Millie to a rich husband. But Frank Sinatra lives across the street...With their employer bankrupt, servants scheme to marry maid Millie to a rich husband. But Frank Sinatra lives across the street...

  • Dirección
    • Tim Whelan
  • Guionistas
    • Jay Dratler
    • Ralph Spence
    • William Bowers
  • Elenco
    • Michèle Morgan
    • Jack Haley
    • Frank Sinatra
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.0/10
    858
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Tim Whelan
    • Guionistas
      • Jay Dratler
      • Ralph Spence
      • William Bowers
    • Elenco
      • Michèle Morgan
      • Jack Haley
      • Frank Sinatra
    • 32Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 11Opiniones de los críticos
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    • Nominado a 2 premios Óscar
      • 2 nominaciones en total

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    Michèle Morgan
    Michèle Morgan
    • Millie Pico
    • (as Michele Morgan)
    Jack Haley
    Jack Haley
    • Mike O'Brien
    Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    • Frank Sinatra
    Leon Errol
    Leon Errol
    • Cyrus Drake
    Marcy McGuire
    Marcy McGuire
    • Mickey
    Victor Borge
    Victor Borge
    • Sir Victor Fitzroy Victor
    Mary Wickes
    Mary Wickes
    • Sandy Brooks
    Elisabeth Risdon
    Elisabeth Risdon
    • Mrs. Georgia Keating
    Barbara Hale
    Barbara Hale
    • Katherine Keating
    Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé
    • Marty
    • (as Mel Torme)
    Paul Hartman
    Paul Hartman
    • Byngham
    Grace Hartman
    • Hilda
    Dooley Wilson
    Dooley Wilson
    • Oscar
    Ivy Scott
    • Mrs. Whiffin
    Robert Andersen
    Robert Andersen
    • Announcer at Butler's Ball
    • (sin créditos)
    Paul Bradley
    Paul Bradley
    • Wedding Guest
    • (sin créditos)
    Ralph Brooks
    • Restaurant Customer
    • (sin créditos)
    Tanis Chandler
    Tanis Chandler
    • Debutante
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Tim Whelan
    • Guionistas
      • Jay Dratler
      • Ralph Spence
      • William Bowers
    • Todo el elenco y el equipo
    • Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro

    Opiniones de usuarios32

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    7bkoganbing

    Playing Himself Just Like Bing Did

    Higher and Higher was one of Rodgers&Hart's lesser Broadway musicals it only had a run of 84 performances on Broadway in 1940. Yet it yielded one of their bigger hits It Never Entered My Mind.

    Nevertheless except for one minor song, So Disgustingly Rich, the entire Broadway score was scrapped when RKO bought the film rights. Instead a whole new score by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson was written, mostly to accommodate one Francis Albert Sinatra who was making his feature film debut.

    Sinatra who had done some vocal cameos in previous films, takes a leaf from the page of his singing rival Bing Crosby. When Bing did his feature film debut in The Big Broadcast, he played Bing Crosby. Frank Sinatra took on the role of Frank Sinatra and I can't think of anyone who could have done a better job.

    The Chairman of the Board is billed third here behind stars Jack Haley and Michele Morgan. He's the butler and she's the scullery maid to Leon Errol. In fact Errol is a millionaire who hasn't paid his help for seven months. Mainly because he's about to go belly up into chapter 11 or so he informs the staff.

    Errol's a delightful old soul to work for and none of the staff want to lose a good thing. They pool their resources and get Michele Morgan to impersonate Errol's daughter who's over in Switzerland with her mother. The idea being to snag a rich bankroll in the hopes rescuing the family fortune. Only Michele starts looking at another.

    It's a slight plot and certainly no worse than a whole lot of musicals, but RKO invested this film with a good cast of players. Barbara Hale and Elizabeth Risdon play another débutante and her mother who suspect something's not right, Victor Borge is a fortune seeking no account, Dooley Wilson, Paul Hartman, Grace Hartman, Marcy McGuire, Mel Torme and Mary Wickes, play others of the Errol household staff. Not a bad bunch at all.

    Sinatra sang three good ballads all of them had some kind of commercial success, The Music Stopped, A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, and I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night. The last one was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song, but lost to Alice Faye's You'll Never Know.

    1943 was the year of the Musician's Union Strike against the recording industry. To get their material out, Frank Sinatra recorded the songs from Higher and Higher with an acapella chorus for Columbia. Bing Crosby recorded songs from his film Dixie in the same manner for Decca. Both of them were denounced by the president of the union, James C. Petrillo as strikebreakers and both did not cross the picket line again. The strike wasn't settle completely until 1944 although Decca broke ranks earlier from the other record companies and settled earlier than Columbia, RCA Victor and the others.

    The strike provided some anxious moments for Sinatra. He had just left the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra when the strike was called. It closed off a needed venue for his artistry when he wasn't sure whether leaving Dorsey would prove to be a right career move.

    Fortunately Higher and Higher was received well a legend was launched.
    bob the moo

    Average little film with a small role for Sinatra, who's name made it a bigger film than it deserved to be

    Cyrus Drake is a rich businessman who has had his staff of servants for many years – a situation that is put a risk when bad investments bankrupt him and threaten to put his loyal staff on the street. To bring money back into the family again, the servants plan to marry off the youngest maid, Millie to a rich man. The staff all pick their roles to establish the ruse, while Millie starts being taught how to be a well educated debutante. However their plans are endangered when singer Frank Sinatra moves in next door and Millie tries to hide her affection for fellow servant Michael.

    Billed as a Frank Sinatra film now, really this is a standard romance of the time, which features Frank in a small role as himself in order to get the teenage crowd in the doors (and they say cynical marketing at teens is a recent thing!). Ignoring this role the film is very much an ordinary piece of entertainment that was very much of the period – a piece of fluff with a convoluted plot, musical numbers, misunderstandings and true love finding a way by the end. In this regard it is OK but quite average, with no real laughs, no significantly moving moments and nothing that really stands out. The script allows for enough to go on to keep the interest but it is all pretty thin and gradually slips into nothingness with only frequent and lively musical numbers serving to keep boredom at bay. The silly twist towards the end is a good example of how lazy the scriptwriters were – basing their happy ending on the thinnest of plot devices.

    The cast are mostly OK – a mix of romantic parts and fast-talking characters. Sinatra didn't do that well playing himself and he looked uncomfortable – like he had been forcibly inserted into the film and felt unwelcome. He got better with time but here he is pretty wooden. Morgan is likable as Millie and Haley enjoys himself with the sort of character that usually plays the sidekick as opposed to his lead role here. Support from Errol, Wickes and an early role from a beautiful Hale (best known as Della Street to my generation) are all good value and help the material appear more interesting and lively than it actually is.

    Overall this is very much of its period and it is an average at that. Sinatra may not actually add much on screen but his name made it a bigger film than it could have been and ensures that it gets repeated on television quite often when others have been forgotten. As afternoon television filler it does the job but it is a wholly unremarkable film even with the presence of Sinatra and I imagine that, without his involvement that it would have long since been forgotten.
    8phvivian

    This may not be the greatest movie ever made but......

    This may not be one of the best movies ever made but overall it's a very enjoyable, light-hearted piece of froth in which everyone involved seems to be having a good time. Highly recommended for it's feel-good factor alone. OK, so Frank Sinatra's "acting" leaves a lot to be desired but his singing is a great redeeming feature and the songs fit in perfectly with the romantic atmosphere of the film. Sinatra went on to make many more films where his undoubted acting ability shone through but in this, his first venture into Hollywood, his voice, not his acting, is his main contribution to this movie. I've just watched it again on TV and it still lifts my mood as much as it did the first time I saw it many many years ago.
    ptb-8

    up and up indeed.

    As a stage play it must have been a hilarious farce, as a film with a

    truly great cast it is very funny indeed. To have all those appealing

    character actors like Mary Wickes and Victor Borge along with

    headliners like Sinatra and Jack Haley all set in a well furnished

    RKO mansion adding crooner Mel Torme and a few excellent

    songs: "I saw you first" and "A lovely way to spend an evening" and

    a good situation comedy storyline, HIGHER AND HIGHER is great

    fun. There is a wide range to the tunes too, with some hep jive

    from Marcie and Mel and crooner swooner from Frank.....and on a

    bicycle too. Sinatra would have been 28 when he made this and

    his visual appeal is also undeniable. Good 40s musical stage to

    film adaptation.
    349th Heavy Weapons Crew

    Frankie's performance couldn't be reviewed!

    Back in 1944 movie critics weren't given special screenings in order to review soon to be released films, but had to wait for a movie's regular opening to write their reviews. According to the host of American Movie Classics, when "Higher and Higher" first opened, film critics were unable to review Frank Sinatra's performance because the screams of adulation from the overwhelmingly young female audience drowned out all sound.

    The first time I ever saw/heard Frank Sinatra was in the late 1960s and I couldn't understand why the women of my mother's generation made such a fuss about Mr. Sinatra. But after seeing this sensual and romantic crooner in "Higher and Higher" I can easily grasp why thousands of young women slept in the streets in order to be the first on line to see the young and appealing Mr. Sinatra.

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    • Trivia
      RKO purchased the rights to the play for $15,000 ($254,000 in 2022), specifically to star Frank Sinatra, and the four songs he sings by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson were written to accommodate his singing style. He was billed third because the contracts with Michèle Morgan and Jack Haley prevented higher billing.
    • Errores
      During the song "when it comes to love you're on your own" (c.62 minutes) the doorways have no panes of glass in them on the lower rows, as the house staff join in the song.
    • Citas

      Mr. Green: Lovely thing you're playing, Victor. What is it?

      Sir Victor Fitzroy Victor: It's a piano.

    • Conexiones
      Featured in We Haven't Really Met Properly...: Jack Haley as the Tin Man/Hickory (2005)
    • Bandas sonoras
      It's a Most Important Affair
      (1943) (uncredited)

      Written by Jimmy McHugh

      Lyrics Harold Adamson

      Sung by Mel Tormé, Marcy McGuire, Paul Hartman, Grace Hartman,

      Martha Mears, Dooley Wilson, and Ivy Scott

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 8 de abril de 1944 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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    • También se conoce como
      • Higher and Higher
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
    • Productora
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 30 minutos
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      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.37 : 1

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