---
title: 'Presenting Lily Mars (1943)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Norman Taurog'
released: '1943-01-01'
genres:
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/presenting-lily-mars-1943'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036275/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Presenting Lily Mars (1943)

1943 · Music · United States


## Synopsis

Presenting Lily Mars is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, produced by Joe Pasternak, starring Judy Garland and Van Heflin, and based on the 1933 novel by Booth Tarkington. The film is often cited as Garland's first film playing an adult role. However, the issue is complicated by the delay in this film's release caused by reshooting the finale, and Garland's brutal work schedule—she was filming Girl Crazy and For Me and My Gal at the same time. Also, in Little Nellie Kelly, released in 1940, she plays her character's mother, dying in childbirth. Tommy Dorsey and Bob Crosby appear with their orchestras.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Norman Taurog](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-taurog)
- **Screenplay:** [Frances Marion](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-marion), [Gladys Lehman](https://cinepixo.com/people/gladys-lehman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Georgie Stoll](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgie-stoll)
- **Producer:** [Joe Pasternak](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-pasternak)
- **Director of Photography:** [Joseph Ruttenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-ruttenberg)
- **Editor:** [Albert Akst](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-akst)

## Cast

- [Jack Chefe](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-chefe)
- [Marta Eggerth](https://cinepixo.com/people/marta-eggerth)
- [Bob Crosby](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-crosby)
- [Janet Chapman](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-chapman)
- [Van Heflin](https://cinepixo.com/people/van-heflin)
- [Marilyn Maxwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/marilyn-maxwell)
- [William Tannen](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-tannen)
- [Almira Sessions](https://cinepixo.com/people/almira-sessions)
- [Charles Walters](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-walters)
- [Fay Bainter](https://cinepixo.com/people/fay-bainter)
- [Claire McDowell](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-mcdowell)
- [Tommy Dorsey](https://cinepixo.com/people/tommy-dorsey)
- [Lynne Carver](https://cinepixo.com/people/lynne-carver)
- [Frank Coghlan, Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-coghlan-jr)
- [Judy Garland](https://cinepixo.com/people/judy-garland)

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