Up in Arms is a 1944 film directed by Elliott Nugent. It stars Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore.^[1] It was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1945.^[2]

Synopsis

A hypochondriac's imagined illnesses aren't enough to keep him out of the military.

Cast

Production Dates: late Jun-late Sep 1943
The working title of this film was With Flying Colors.
All of the actresses who played nurses in Up in Arms are listed collectively onscreen as "The Goldwyn Girls."
Danny Kaye's character was based on the character "The Nervous Wreck" from the play of the same name by Owen Davis, which opened in New York in 1923. The play, which bears little resemblance to the film, was in turn based on the 1921 magazine serial The Wreck by Edith J. Rath and Sam H. Harris, which was published as a novel called The Nervous Wreck in 1923. In 1928, Florenz Ziegfeld staged a musical version of Davis' play called Whoopee starring Eddie Cantor.
Up in Arms marked the motion picture debut of Broadway star Danny Kaye (1913-1987), and opened to uniformly rave reviews. The popular star, who began on Broadway in 1939, had already turned down a contract with M-G-M, when Goldwyn cast him in Up in Arms. After this film made Kaye an international success, he went on to do three more with Goldwyn before moving on to Warner Bros.
The film received Academy Award nominations in the Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) and Music (Song-"Now I Know") categories

Films directed by Elliott Nugent