The Gang's All Here is a 1943 American Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor musical film starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and James Ellison.

[3] Musical highlights include Carmen Miranda performing an insinuating, witty version of "You Discover You're in New York" that lampoons fads, fashions, and wartime shortages of the time.

A. J. and Andy enjoy the show, which features master of ceremonies Phil Baker and dancer Tony De Marco, while Potter worries about what his wife Blossom would say if she knew he was there.

According to The Hollywood Reporter and a studio press release, Linda Darnell was originally scheduled to play "Vivian Potter," which would have been her first dancing role in motion pictures.

During dance rehearsals, however, Darnell sprained her ankle, and after her recovery, eloped with cinematographer Peverell Marley and asked Twentieth Century-Fox for an indefinite leave of absence.

In spite of the producer/director discord during shooting, the film turned out to be an outrageously conceived work of art, blending with subtlety the politics of alliances while overtly disarming the viewing public with surrealism and spectacle.

The film features a well-known cast, including Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, and Benny Goodman, and presents a predictable plot filled with clichés, centered around nightclub performers staying at a wealthy businessman’s rural estate during wartime efforts.

[17] The critic Don Druker from the Chicago Reader considers The Gang's All Here Busby Berkeley's most daring film, highlighting it as an innovative exploration of movement and color that reaches the realm of pure abstraction.

[18] Philip French, from The Guardian, describes The Gang's All Here as Busby Berkeley's boldest and most delirious work, marking a high point in his career and serving as a "time capsule of the 1940s."

The film also features memorable performances by Alice Faye singing the nostalgic ballad "No Love, No Nothin’," and Benny Goodman and his orchestra, representing the big band era.

Borrowed from MGM to 20th Century Fox, the director explored unprecedented artistic freedom, crafting a vibrant and imaginative spectacle that served as a form of escapism for a war-torn country.

Berkeley's direction is praised for its dynamic camera work and surrealistic sets that come to life, while Carmen Miranda and Alice Faye anchor the numbers with their charismatic performances.

The film masterfully blends contrasting styles, delivering a breathtaking cinematic spectacle regarded as the peak of Berkeley's artistic expression and the musical genre.

[20] Lou Lumenick, in his 2005 review for the New York Post, celebrates The Gang's All Here as one of the most extravagant films ever made, highlighting its vibrant Technicolor aesthetic and iconic musical numbers.

[21] Inácio Araújo, a film critic for the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, describes The Gang's All Here as an old-fashioned musical centered on the challenges of putting together a show, with a touch of romance.

However, he points out that beneath this conventional premise, director-choreographer Busby Berkeley creates delirious choreography, using bold camera angles to transform the scenes into true visual works of art.

Araújo emphasizes that, with Carmen Miranda and her iconic balangandãs, Berkeley constructs a festive and sensual image that, while evoking South America, seems more like a symbolic representation of the filmmaker's imagination and creative mind.

[22] The Variety review describes the film as having a weak script, based on a story by Nancy Wintner, George Root Jr., and Tom Bridges, but notes that the musical numbers help compensate for this flaw.

[23] Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color (Nominated)[24] In 2014, The Gang's All Here was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Fox first released the film on DVD in 2007 as part of The Alice Faye Collection, but the transfer was criticized for its faded color reproduction subduing the original vibrant Technicolor hues.