A musical comedy is admired by numbers of for its extensive have of dance in its storytelling (Robbins choreographed a total of ballets and extended dance sequences for a indicate, including the nowadays-famous "Imaginary Coney Island" ballet). A story concerns three U.S. sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City. Both of the trey sailors becomes in love of the particular woman — & Up to date York city itself — & has the total of dangerous undertaking prior to their brief period finishes & it must go to to their ship to head off to war, and the super uncertain new.

A indicate was filmed within 1949, though many changes inside script & score were manufactured from either a original stage version. It starred Gene Kelly (who too co-directed using Stanley Donen), Frank Sinatra and Jules Munchin, when well as Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen and Betty Garrett. It goes in record when a foremost moving picture to ever exist as filmed partially in location, following of Gene Kelly's insistence that it shoot a select few scenes in the city itself. A picture was an instant profits for M-G-M's "Freed Unit", which went in to develop numerous supplementary popular musical comedy into a Fifties.

Musical numbers
"New York, New York" "Come Up to My Place" "Carried Away" "Lonely Town" "Do Do Re Do" (Carnegie Hall Pavane) "I Can Cook, Too" "Lucky to Be Me" "Times Square: 1944" (Ballet) "Ya Got Me" "I Understand" "The Imaginary Coney Island" (Ballet) "Some Other Time" "The Real Coney Island" (Ballet)