Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
Overview
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of his first official acts is to call for the death of Brom Broeck (Nelson Eddy), a newspaper publisher well-known for his fearless exposes of police and government corruption. However, Broeck hasn't done anything that would justify the death penalty, so Stuyvesant waits (without much patience) for Broeck to step out of line. Broeck is romancing a beautiful woman named Tina Tienhoven (Constance Dowling), whose sister Ulda (Shelley Winters) happens to be dating his best friend, Ten Pin (Johnnie "Scat" Davis). After Stuyvesant's men toss Broeck in jail on a trumped-up charge, Stuyvesant sets his sights on winning Tina's affections.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.3977 |
Directed By
Harry Joe Brown
Crew
Harry Joe Brown
Maxwell Anderson
Werner R. Heymann
Maxwell Anderson
Julia Heron
Nina Roberts
Sid Brod
Ben Winkler
John F. Link Sr.
Jacques Samossoud
Harold Goldman
Rowland Leigh
Maxwell Anderson
David Boehm
Harry Joe Brown
Kurt Weill
Philip Tannura
Kurt Weill
Thomas Lennon
Jule Styne
Steve Drumm
Walter Hannemann
Sammy Cahn
Walter Plunkett
Raoul Pagel
Bernard Herzbrun
TOP CAST
Nelson Eddy
Brom Broeck
Charles Coburn
Peter Stuyvesant
Constance Dowling
Tina Tienhoven
Ernest Cossart
Tienhoven
Shelley Winters
Ulda Tienhoven
Johnnie Davis
Tenpin
Percy Kilbride
Schermerhorn
Otto Kruger
Roosevelt
Fritz Feld
Poffenburgh
Richard Hale
Tammany
Carmen Amaya
Gypsy Dancer
Irving Bacon
Peter Van Stoon
Charles Judels
Renasaler
Ferdinand Munier
De Pyster
Glenn Strange
Big Muscle
Percival Vivian
De Vries
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