Goodbye, Mr. Chips! 」とか「count on 」「hanging around」 など英語のヒネリも結構あるみたい。 激安DVDなんで英語字幕がなくて今ひとつ分からないのが残念。 「上げ底」ってなんて言っているんだろう?
ちょっとネットで歌詞を調べてみる。 On The Town lyrics→コチラ New York, New York, a helluva town. The Bronx is up, but the Battery's down. The people ride in a hole in the groun'. New York, New York, it's a helluva town! ※helluva=a hell of a
This was the first musical feature film to be shot on location. In a TCM interview, Ann Miller took the credit for pleading and persuading Louis B. Mayer to do the shoot on location as she had "never seen New York".
A total of 5 days was spent filming in New York City.
Jules Munshin was terrified of heights. While performing on the tiny rooftop during the song "New York, New York" the only way he could perform the number was while one end of a rope was secured around his waist under his sailor suit. The other end of the rope was secured, off camera, to Stanley Donen. And even so, alert viewers of the scene will notice that during the scene Munshin is almost always touching a wall or a prop or another actor.