Release Date:February 1952Premiere Information: Los Angeles opening:
7 Feb 1952; San Francisco opening: 8 Feb 1952Production Date: late Jun--31 Jul
1951According to HR, Universal sponsored a national contest to have the public
choose their ten favorite Frank Sinatra songs for inclusion in the film. Other
HR news items add Johnny Daheim, Joe Gray, Charles Parker and Leo Garber to the
cast, but their appearance in the final film has not been confirmed. A 16 May
1951 HR news item reports that Shelley Winters was briefly suspended by the
studio for refusing to fly immediately from New York to Los Angeles for her
costume fittings and screen tests. Unbilled Universal contract players Tony
Curtis and Jeff Chandler appear in a brief cameo during a scene in which
"Danny" performs drunkenly at a nightclub. The film's final scene was shot on
location at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. Reviewers noted the distracting
parallels between "Danny's" rise to fame and Sinatra's own. When the film
opened in San Francisco, Sinatra gave a one-day only live performance at the
Orpheum theater prior to the start of the picture. Modern sources state that
Sinatra fought with Shelley Winters throughout the filming of the picture.
Although Meet Danny Wilson was not a box-office success, it gained popularity
during a 1954 re-release after Sinatra won a Best Supporting Actor Academy
Award for his performance in From Here to Eternity (see entry).
ON SITE LOCATION:Los Angeles--Wrigley Field, California, United StatesAFI
Catalog
From what I know of their off-screen spats , this is really great acting.Ed
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