For the Boys

For the Boys is a 1991 film which tells the story of Dixie Leonard, a 1940s actress/singer who teams up with Eddie Sparks, a famous performer to entertain American troops. The film traces her life through 50 years. The original music score was composed by Dave Grusin.
The film was adapted by Marshall Brickman, Neal Jimenez and Lindy Laub from a story by Jimenez and Laub. It was directed by Mark Rydell. It stars Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O'Neal, Christopher Rydell, Arye Gross and Norman Fell.
Bette Midler was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. The movie soundtrack features adaptations of many classic songs, including "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser, "P.S. I Love You", "I Remember You", "Every Road Leads Back To You" and the Beatles' "In My Life". Many of these have lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Although the film is fiction, actress/singer Martha Raye believed that Midler's character was based on many widely-known facts about her life and career with the USO and pursued legal action based on that assumption, but ultimately lost the case. The Caan character was generally believed to be based on Bob Hope.
In 2011, the film was adapted for the musical stage by Aaron Thielen and Terry James and debuted at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois.^[1][2]

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Directed by	Mark Rydell
Produced by	Bonnie Bruckheimer
Written by	Marshall Brickman Neal Jimenez Lindy Laub
Starring	Bette Midler James Caan George Segal
Music by	Dave Grusin
Cinematography	Stephen Goldblatt
Editing by	Gerald B. Greenberg (as Jerry Greenberg) Jere Huggins
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	November 22, 1991
Running time	138 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million
Box office	$23,202,444