Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American musical comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, with songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Directed by George Sidney, the film also features José Iturbi, Pamela Britton, and Dean Stockwell.

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On shore-leave in L-A sailors Joe and Clarence (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra) have agreed to put their new pal Donald (Dean Stockwell) to bed, Frank supplying Brahms’ Lullaby, then hoping to apply Gene’s promised romantic advice to his guardian-aunt Susan (Kathryn Grayson), in MGM’s Anchors Aweigh, 1945.

Two sailors (Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly) on leave help an actress (Kathryn Grayson) get her big break. Anchors Aweigh is an uneven, overlong, musical highlighted by great production, and flashes of inspired genius.

Grayson is the aunt/guardian of nine year old Dean Stockwell who’d run away from home to join the Navy. A police officer (Rags Ragland) who catches up with him pawns him off on the two sailors who take him home and babysit him until much to their surprise his aunt turns out to be a beautiful young lass.

Joe and Clarence, two navy sailors who have a few days leave in Hollywood. All Joe wants to do is to have a good time and meet up with his girl, the unseen Lola. Clarence on the other hand just...

Anchors Aweigh (1945) Produced by Joe Pasternak Directed by George Sidney Written by Isobel Lennart Cast Frank Sinatra . Clarence Doolittle Kathryn Grayson . Susan Abbott Gene Kelly . Joseph Brady Jose Iturbi . Himself Dean Stockwell . Donald Martin Pamela Britton . Girl from Brooklyn Rags Ragland . Police Sergeant Billy Gilbert . Cafe Manager ...

Robert Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021) was an American actor with a film and television career that spanned seven decades. [1][2] As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the Thin Man (1947), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Boy with Green Hai...

they met up with straitlaced, widowed, aspiring opera singer Susan "Susie" Abbott (Kathryn Grayson) who worked as a film extra, and was befriending her young, orphaned, 9 year-old runaway nephew Donald Martin (Dean Stockwell in his film debut) who wished to join the Navy

Two sailors on leave through a combination of circumstances meet up with Kathryn Grayson and her orphaned nephew Dean Stockwell. Trying to fix her up with Sinatra, Kelly says he can get her an audition with Jose Iturbi.