On the Town Kelly, Gene performer Miller, Ann performer Vera-Ellen performer Sinatra, Frank performer Munshi, Jules performer Film 1949-12-01 MGM Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly Miller plays an glamorous New York anthropologist who thinks that sailor Jules Munshin is the personification of the prehistoric man she is studying; "Prehistoric Man" composer Roger Edens and lyricists Betty Comden and Adolf Green wrote especially for Miller; a dance that leads to the collapse of a dinosaur skeleton in the dignified museum, which in turn leads to her leaving her place of study and joining the three sailors to a night on the town with females Vera-Ellen and Betty Garrett. Kelly performs the ballet fantasy with Alex Romero and Lee Sneddon substituting for Frank Sinatra and Jules Minshin. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Thomas, Tony: That's Dancing!. New York, Harry Abrams (1984). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Ann Miller (biography) loc.music.tdabio.131 Gene Kelly (biography) loc.music.tdabio.119 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.854