Anchors Aweigh
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Oct 15, 2026
Andrew KlavanHOST
It's certainly very powerful, but it's about the lives of people coming back from World War II and how difficult it was to readjust.
Andrew KlavanHOST
Anchors Away, 1944, directed by George Sidney.
Andrew KlavanHOST
That is Gene Kelly singing and dancing his brains out as a sailor.
Andrew KlavanHOST
Three sailors on leave in New York City.
Andrew KlavanHOST
It's never happened.
Andrew KlavanHOST
I can't think of anything else that has that much joy.
Andrew KlavanHOST
Anchors Away is one of the best.
Andrew KlavanHOST
Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Alex FirstHOST
Yes.
Peter KrauszPANELIST
Well, remember Anchors Aweigh, the Gene Kelly film from 1945 where he danced-
Alex FirstHOST
[laughs]
Peter KrauszPANELIST
... with Mickey Mouse?
KristenHOST
So Compulsion, and I was interested in this at first too because, I don't know, I have some fascination with Dean Stockwell for some reason.
KristenHOST
[laughs] Um, 'cause I know him from, like, Anchors Aweigh when he's, like, a little boy, and then Quantum Leap, and this is kind of in between.
Christie StratosGUEST
[laughs]
KristenHOST
So that was kind of interesting to me.
Brandon DavisHOST
Yeah.
John DeLeoGUEST
And it's like after this with Anchors Aweigh, he's Hollywood Gene Kelly.
Brandon DavisHOST
Yeah.
John DeLeoGUEST
And that's great, too.
Brandon DavisHOST
Yeah.
John DeLeoGUEST
He's-
Brandon DavisHOST
Because y- you're right, 'cause then, I mean, I mean, then next in Anchors Aweigh, he's dancing with Jerry the Mouse.
Brandon DavisHOST
He's doing-
John DeLeoGUEST
And I feel like this is the last movie where he's pal Joey Gene Kelly.
John DeLeoGUEST
And it's like after this with Anchors Away, he's Hollywood Gene Kelly.
John DeLeoGUEST
And that's great, too.
John DeLeoGUEST
My God, that's, you know.
John DeLeoGUEST
Yeah,
Brandon DavisHOST
you're right.
Brandon DavisHOST
Because then, I mean, then next in Anchors Away, he's dancing with Jerry the Mouse.
Brandon DavisHOST
He's experimenting from there on out.
Chris HollidayHOST
There was a slide in which there were films where animation is behaving as fantasy, and it was, it was, um, uh, Mary Poppins was on there.
Chris HollidayHOST
There was Anchors Aweigh, the sort of dance between Jerry Mouse and, and Gene Kelly.
Chris HollidayHOST
And I remember, um, a still from Enchanted as a sort of-
Alexander SergeantHOST
Right