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Gaily, Gaily (released in the United Kingdom as Chicago, Chicago) is a 1969 American comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. It is a fictionalized adaptation of a 1963 memoir of the same name by Ben Hecht and stars Beau Bridges, Brian Keith, George Kennedy, Hume Cronyn and Melina Mercouri.
Mar 23, 1970 · Gaily, Gaily: Directed by Norman Jewison. With Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy. To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910.
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- Comedy
- Norman Jewison
- 1970-03-23
Gaily, Gaily - (Original Trailer) Beau Bridges plays a young man coming of age in corrupt 1910's Chicago in Gaily, Gaily (1969) based on a novel by Ben Hecht (The Front Page). Film Details MPAA Rating
- Norman Jewison, Mike Moder, Phil Parslow
- Beau Bridges
Set in the early 1900s, Gaily, Gaily is a coming-of-age story about a young man named Ben Harvey (Beau Bridges) who leaves his small town home in Illinois to seek adventure and a new life for himself in Chicago.
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- Norman Jewison
- R
- Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith
This movie shows the life of a young boy, named Ben Harvey -maybe young Ben Hecht-who tries to succeed as a reporter in Chicago. It features in the cast the beautiful and mercurial Melina Mercouri, who as Madame Lily-owner of a brothel- 'adopts' Ben when he runs to Chicago to prove himself.
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper.
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