Coney Island (1943 film)

Coney Island is a 1943 American Technicolor musical film released by Twentieth Century Fox and starring Betty Grable in one of her biggest hits.

A "gay nineties" musical (set in that time period), it also featured George Montgomery, Cesar Romero, and Phil Silvers, was choreographed by Hermes Pan, and was directed by Walter Lang.

In 1905, promoter Eddie Johnson (George Montgomery) goes to Coney Island to find his rival and pal, Joe Rocco (Cesar Romero) who cheated him out of his share of the carnival they ran together.

Eddie then persuades his friend Frankie (Phil Silvers), who runs a sideshow featuring a tattooed woman, to allow him to turn it into a Turkish Harem with dancing girls.

In order to prevent Eddie from getting Kate, Joe is willing to give her up himself, and writes to Broadway impresario William Hammerstein (Matt Briggs), who comes to hear her sing.

They prepare to marry that afternoon, but Joe again comes between them by hiring an actor to tell Kate that Eddie has secured a bank loan for his club by using her singing services as collateral.