In addition to the Danny Kaye movie you mentioned, he plays a milkman in "The Kid From Brooklyn" (which is a remake of Harold Lloyd's "The Milky Way") and has a horse-drawn milk truck which I recall is featured in some scenes.  Harold Lloyd's version must have some good milk truck appearances, too! 

Milk Trucks of any kind in the films are a "Back in the Day" moment for me.  It's like  "dairytherapy".  It takes me back to a time when we  had our milk delivered to the door. Leave a note on the porch, and like magic; your order was there, first thing in the morning. We didn't even consider buying milk or butter at the market. Never met a Milkman I couldn't trust!  I like to pay attention to all the "background" scenes, sooo much happening behind the actors. Billboards, prices of food on the market windows, toys no longer seen today, kitchen appliances that seem prehistoric now, pictures on the walls, and all that antique furniture being smashed over John Wayne's head!! I also notice that the real stars of ANY Western is the Horse! They are always in the shot.  Just standing there looking cool while the idiots on their backs blabber away while the horse gets a full on head shot! Combine the horse with a milk wagon and you've got a sure fire winning scene! 

No, I didn't notice that!

There's a milk truck or two in The St Louis Kid with Jimmy Cagney, Allen Jenkins, and Patricia Ellis.

Yes, Mary S., thanks for reminding me – I'd forgotten about Harold Lloyd's The Milky Way (1936), perhaps the best sound era film of the silent comedian's I've seen; it does indeed feature a horse (named Agnes) drawn milk delivery cart.  I'll have to watch the Danny Kaye remake when it's on next month. Dragonfly, we must view classic movies in much the same way; I'm forever noticing the little details in the background such as the price of meals, pictures on the walls, the way drivers slide across their seats to exit the curbside car door, and other bits of nostalgia.Thanks silentfan66 for the "milk truck" heads-up in the St. Louis Kid (1934); I've not seen that one yet but notice it's on TCM next Saturday morning.

MDR….I love it when the actor could so easily open the driver's side door of the car…but opts to slide all the way across, and I do mean "all the way across" (a Packard is the size of a Studio Apartment!) the seat and step onto the sidewalk on the passenger side.  Not sure if this was done to save a camera location or if people in general exited cars this way in the beginning.  It seems there was no steadfast rule as to how to get out of cars in the early days.  The stick shift has dictated how we exit cars now, but most cars use to have a 3-speed on the column.  The front seat was the size of a couch! In the back, we could fit five kids with room to spare.  Who needed a motel when traveling? There was ample room to stretch out.

Maid's Night Out (1938) stars Allan Lane as an heir who ends up working as a milkman on a bet.  He eventually falls in love with an heiress (Joan Fontaine) pretending to be a maid.  The milk truck plays a central role in this filim, not entirely suprisingly considering the plot.  If my memory serves me correctly, the climax entails a police chase involving several stolen or allegedly stolen milk trucks.

Not a milk truck, but just as good, an ice truck, in Meet Me in St Louis with little Margaret O'Brien describing how close to death her doll is and what kind of funeral she plans, and he just goes along with her comments so kindly.

Dragonfly, my teenage son pointed out his confusion when he saw a charactor sliding over to the passenger side to get out of a car to the sidewalk. I gave him a list of things bucket seats made inconvenient like riding 3 people up front. Most of all "bucket seats" placed an obstacle on romance, ie "necking!" As an only child I was allowed to ride in the front seat with my parents and on late nights rides home falling asleep stretched between them. I also appreciate my memories of holiday and summer vacation road trips, often a caravan of relatives in luxuriously long American-made autos. Ford, GM and Chrysler not only manufactured these autos, they provided the great jobs to a generation of my family affording us the prosperous lifestyle of the American Dream.I also happen to take notice of milk deliveries as a vehicle to provide realism to scenes depicting a commonplace setting. A favorite, Life with Father starring William Powell has an opening scene setting up the Mr. Day's station in society and "fastidious" character through his dialogue with the milkman in front of horse drawn truck. Last week, we noticed Audrey Hepburn slide over to passenger side to get out her car then pick up the milk in at Spencer Tracy's front door, before attempting to make breakfast as his "wife" in Woman of the Year. I never experienced "milk deliveries" but while living at uncle's old home in Detroit, I believe I saw evidence of this. On level with our driveway beside a side door which was probably for servants/deliveries there was a convenient cabinet that opened to both the outside and inside of a stair landing that led up to kitchen or down to basement. I always assumed this metal box was for milk bottles. Can anyone confirm this?

Dragonfly, my teenage son pointed out his confusion when he saw a charactor sliding over to the passenger side to get out of a car to the sidewalk. I gave him a list of things bucket seats made inconvenient like riding 3 people up front. Most of all "bucket seats" placed an obstacle on romance, ie "necking!" As an only child I was allowed to ride in the front seat with my parents and on late nights rides home falling asleep stretched between them. I also appreciate my memories of holiday and summer vacation road trips, often a caravan of relatives in luxuriously long American-made autos. Ford, GM and Chrysler not only manufactured these autos, they provided the great jobs to a generation of my family affording us the prosperous lifestyle of the American Dream.I also happen to take notice of milk deliveries as a vehicle to provide realism to scenes depicting a commonplace setting. A favorite, Life with Father starring William Powell has an opening scene setting up the Mr. Day's station in society and "fastidious" character through his dialogue with the milkman in front of horse drawn truck. Last week, we noticed Audrey Hepburn slide over to passenger side to get out her car then pick up the milk in at Spencer Tracy's front door, before attempting to make breakfast as his "wife" in Woman of the Year. I never experienced "milk deliveries" but while living at uncle's old home in Detroit, I believe I saw evidence of this. On level with our driveway beside a side door which was probably for servants/deliveries there was a convenient cabinet that opened to both the outside and inside of a stair landing that led up to kitchen or down to basement. I always assumed this metal box was for milk bottles. Can anyone confirm this?

A quick cautionary note concerning Cinema milk delivery . . .DO NOT (as I did!) bother to track down a VHS copy of Donald O'Connor's mid-50's vehicle "The Milk Man".This movie's a triple-soured threat: rare, atypically expensive and almost embarrassingly BAD, musically, dramatically and visually! (So much for fractured childhood recall!)If you have any appreciation for abilities of Mssrs. O'Connor or Durante, the celestial significance of Milkmen on the Silver Screen, or just fun, cheap li'l postwar flicks, seek thee thy kicks elsewhere!

 While I was Young??? And Lived In detroit we had Milk deliveries Using the Milk shute as described by FadingRose..

I know it's not a classic film, but there's a milk truck shown in the background of one of the motorcycle battle scenes in Mission Impossible 2.

There is a charming sequence in The Clock with Judy Garland and Robert Walker accompanying Milkman Jimmy Gleason on his route through the predawn hours in a NYC of long ago and far away, (if it ever existed!). The pair go home with Gleason for breakfast with his wife, played by James Gleason's actual spouse, Lucile Gleason. The charm of their interplay is one of the high spots of this film. Believe it or not, as a kid 40 years ago in upstate NY, we had a horse and wagon that delivered milk on weekends throughout our small town. No, it wasn't hooterville, but I'll tell ya, it made for a wonderful memory and milk always tasted better out of the glass bottles that were delivered by Dolly the horse. 

 For milktrucks, how about "The Milkman" 1950 with Donald O'Connor and Jimmy Durante? 

MILK TRUCK SIGHTING!Constance & Cary buy a frosty quart right off the truck from an on-duty milkman after harmonizing w/ Hoagy, then bum the empty off on an apoplectic Irish beat-cop, in tonight's Topper.Ain't life grand, back in the past?!

How about "Maid's Night Out" with Joan Fontaine where she is a society gal pretending to be a maid with the son of a dairy king who, rather than going in his dad's business, wants to study fish so he places a bet with his dad he can be a milkman for a month and neither know till the end of the show they are falling in love with society people and not the workers of the day.

Another milkman scene, with a brief glimpse of the wheel and side of a milk cart, appears at the beginning of the "Lullaby of Broadway" number in Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), sung by Wini Shaw (and Dick Powell).

The Affairs of Martha (1942), a delightful little comedy that was on TCM yesterday, includes a horse drawn milk cart and a milkman making deliveries door-to-door at its beginning.

"He Walked By Night" where the milk truck driver is the undercover cop sent to sus out if electronics genius/serial killer Richard Basehart is home.  Richard, you shoulda bought a lactose intolerant mutt!

"Married Before Breakfast" – Robert Young's character tries selling an insurance policy to an elusive milkman. I think they end up stealing the truck…

In Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" Robert Donat escapes his apartment and an unwanted corpse by convincing the milk man to let him wear his coat so as to slip by the agents laying in wait outside . I think you get to see the horse and milk cart too.

In the silent, "The Cat and the Canary" one of the group escapes the murderous goings on in the dark house by flagging down a horse-drawn milk cart.

"Confessions Of Boston Blackie"Boston steals away in a milk truck truck, then waylays an ice cream truck driver and steals his jacket.

During the humorous opening credits of I Know Where I'm Going (1945), there is a horse-drawn milk cart.

How about the Danny Kaye, “A Kid from Brooklyn?” Wasn’t he a milk man in this movie with a horse drawn wagon?

Good Neighbor Sam (1964), part of the new Jack Lemmon Collection, starts off with a milkman delivering door to door.