On The Town (1949)

In co-director Stanley Donen's and dancer/choreographer Gene Kelly's musical comedy - a fresh, energetic, kinetic and innovative landmark MGM musical that was the first major musical to be filmed on location - the exuberant musical masterpiece won the Oscar for Best Musical Score:

• the opening show-stopping, two and a half-minute song-and-dance number "New York, New York (It's a Hell of a Town)" by three sailors: Gabey (Gene Kelly), shy Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin), who were looking for romance during a 24-hour shore leave/furlough after docking in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, beginning at 6 AM: ("New York, New York, a wonderful (helluva) town. The Bronx is up and the Battery's down"); the number included their viewings of many prominent sights of New York City, such as Wall Street, Little Italy, Chinatown, the Lower East Side, the Statue of Liberty, the Hudson River, the Elevated Subway, Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, Grant's Tomb, Riverside Church, Central Park, the observation deck of Rockefeller Center, and the Statue of Prometheus

"New York, New York" - Sights of NYC

• the dream sequence about 'Miss Turnstiles' of the Month, the selected June subway billboard 'dream girl' - whom Gabey fell in love with via her poster; in the number, she portrayed a high-society girl as well as a sporty athlete with various suitors

Dream Girl Ivy Smith ("Miss Turnstiles Ballet")

• other musical numbers were also performed with their new girlfriends:
  
  - sexy, toe-tapping anthropologist-student Claire Huddesen (Ann Miller) (whom Ozzie met in the fictional Museum of Anthropological History where they performed the song/dance "Prehistoric Man") before the group accidentally collapsed the anthropology museum’s dinosaur skeleton [Note: the ending of Bringing Up Baby (1938)]
  - lust-crazed female Globe Cab driver Brunhilde "Hildy" Esterhazy (Betty Garrett) who advanced on innocent-minded Chip in "Come Up to My Place", and their duet "You're Awful" atop the Empire State Building
  - ballet dancer Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen) - who performed a duet with lovelorn Gabey in "Main Street" after he met her studying classical ballet with imperious teacher Madame Dilyovska (Florence Bates)
• the film's climactic title number "On the Town" performed by the three couples on the Empire State Building's open rooftop and then on a wide street-level sidewalk

"On the Town"

• the stylized and innovative dream sequence titled "A Day in New York" - also performed by Ivy and Gabey, mostly in a red spotlight (with black silhouettes) in front of a balance beam [Note: It was significant in that the number presaged or was the forerunner of the magnificent final ballet of An American in Paris (1951)]

"A Day in New York" - Instrumental Dream Dance Between Ivy and Gabey

• the final scene: a reunion between Gabey and Ivy on Coney Island where he found her performing as a cooch dancer at a Middle Eastern concession (in order to pay for her ballet lessons), before the three sailors dressed in drag to evade the police while being chased, but they were captured by the shore patrol and taken back to their ship that was scheduled to depart at 6 AM (24 hours after their leave began); fortunately, the three girlfriends caught up to them on the dock just before they left, and offered lots of kisses, embraces, and goodbye waves, with a reprise of "New York, New York" (by a new trio of sailors leaving the ship)

Goodbye Kisses at the Dock	6:00 AM Departure