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Posts Tagged "Judy Garland"

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Judy ** (2019, Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon) – Movie Review

Throwing herself into the 2019 movie star biopic Judy to the max, Renée Zellweger gives an impressively showy, over-twitchy, mannered performance as Judy Garland, who comes in London in the winter of 1968 to perform […]

Oct, 04

Broadway Melody of 1938 **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Sophie Tucker, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 3626

Director Roy Del Ruth’s toe-tapping 1937 musical brings Robert Taylor back as a young Broadway producer-impresario – it is exactly the same part but has different character name, Steve Raleigh – who again is urgently seeking […]

Apr, 27

Words and Music *** (1948, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Tom Drake, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, Ann Sothern, Perry Como) – Classic Movie Review 3622

Director Norman Taurog’s 1948 movie is a fictionalised musical bioipc, very loosely based on the creative partnership of the composer Richard Rodgers (Tom Drake) and lyricist Lorenz Hart (Mickey Rooney). A lavish showcasing of the Rodgers and Hart catalogue of […]

Apr, 26

Thousands Cheer *** (1943, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, John Boles, Mary Astor, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland) – Classic Movie Review 3621

And thousands did cheer at director George Sidney’s hugely entertaining, incredibly lavish 1943 MGM comedy musical, now a period piece as a Second World War morale-booster for American troops and their families. It was advertised as ’30 […]

Apr, 26

Andy Hardy Meets Debutante ** (1940, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 3620

Director George B Seitz’s entertaining 1940 ninth film in the MGM comedy series, Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, finds Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is still chasing pretty MGM starlets. Hooray for Judy Garland in a charismatic […]

Apr, 26

Love Finds Andy Hardy *** (1938, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Lana Turner) – Classic Movie Review 3619

Mickey Rooney stars as teenage Andy Hardy who becomes entangled with three girls at the same time in director George B Seitz’s amusing and enjoyable 1938 MGM romantic comedy film, Love Finds Andy Hardy. It also […]

Apr, 26

Under the Clock [The Clock] ***** (1945, Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) Classic Movie Review 3612

Based on a story by Paul and Pauline Gallico, director Vincente Minnelli’s exquisite 1945 wartime romance is an utterly lovely, totally beguiling movie. Judy Garland stars as Alice Maybery, a World War Two working girl, who meets, […]

Apr, 24

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