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Posts Tagged "MGM musical"

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The Kissing Bandit ** (1948, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 4717

Frank Sinatra stars as Ricardo, a Mexican bandit’s shy son from Boston, who wants to lead a quiet life back East, but whose family insist that he has to keep up his father’s renown for theft […]

Nov, 28

Royal Wedding [Wedding Bells] ***½ (1950, Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Sarah Churchill, Peter Lawford, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 3380

Director Stanley Donen’s tasty 1950 movie finds the MGM studios in the mood for cashing in the worldwide publicity and frenzy surrounding Queen Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip with a cute musical with Fred Astaire and […]

Feb, 19

Summer Stock **** (1950, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 2513

Director Charles Walters’s 1950 Technicolor musical Summer Stock is the third and last pairing of Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Poignantly, and sadly, it is the troubled Garland’s final movie for her studio MGM. She […]

May, 23

The Pirate **** (1948, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 2510

Director Vincente Minnelli’s sophisticated and colourful 1948 Technicolor musical is lots of fun and a real charmer. It’s a sparkling showcase for the splendid team of Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, in the second of […]

May, 23

The Great Ziegfeld **** (1936, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer) – Classic Movie Review 2026

  Director Robert Z Leonard’s triple-Oscar-winning 1936 MGM musical biopic is an incredibly lavish, spectacular and profitable biography of the great Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, famous as the showman producer of the most extravagant stage revues of […]

Dec, 31

Tom Thumb **** (1958, Russ Tamblyn, June Thorburn, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 1841

Producer-director George Pal’s colourful and charming British-made 1958 MGM fantasy musical Tom Thumb stars Russ Tamblyn, giving an engaging, athletic and enjoyable performance in his finest hour as the diminutive 5 ½ inches high lad […]

Nov, 15

Show Boat ***** (1951, Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner) – Classic Movie Review 1136

In 1951 the MGM studio uses the excuse of colour and widescreen to remake James Whale’s superb 1936 black and white film of the vintage Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical about turn-of-the-last-century Mississippi river folk. […]

Apr, 22

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