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“What do you get when you combine the talents of Chuck Jones, operating as a writer and producer, and a vocal cast that includes Judy Garland, Robert Goulet (in his film debut), Red Buttons, and Hermione Gingold? Well, you get Gay Purr-ee, a film thatās more visually arresting than it is capable of” read more
“Seventeen musical numbers in 103 minutes. No one can unfairly claim that Easter Parade doesnāt offer a lot of bang for its buck, but that doesnāt mean it was necessarily money well spent. Thereās no real story or concept here, just a loose connection of scenes that ostensibly tell a story but ” read more
“A three-hour black and white courtroom drama about the Nazi trials populated by movie stars in the waning days of their careers ā sounds like the recipe for a snooze fest, an overly pious piece of do-gooder cinema thatās overly saccharine. Judgment at Nuremberg is not that movie. I mean, in a wa” read more
“The Clock is a lovely little movie that offers Judy Garland one of her rare straight dramatic parts. It doesnāt hurt that sheās matched by a fabulously sincere and present performance by Robert Walker, and an overall tender tone that underscores the bittersweet nature of the romance. The Clock i” read more
“Booth Tarkingtonās novel gets the glossy MGM treatment here, so that means the downbeat ending and realistic traumas the characters face are softened and/or jettisoned in favor of a triumphant final bow before the curtain closes/screen fades to black. Presenting Lily Mars is a great showcase for t” read more
“Ignore that James Stewart, fresh off an Oscar win for The Philadelphia Story, gets top billing here. Hereās a supporting player to the trio of stage-struck hopefuls played by Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner. The whole thing is overly long, the melodrama gets laid on a bit too thick, I d” read more
“I fully admit to being skeptical about the Andy Hardy films. I donāt mind a little sugar, but thereās nothing sour to offset the sweet about these films. Theyāre pleasing little lies about a piece of Americana that likely never existed. A better written and acted The Brady Bunch, if you will. ” read more
“Small town American was never as picture perfect and saccharine as it was in the Andy Hardy series. Thereās the stoic but supportive father (Lewis Stone), fretful loving mother (Fay Holden), nicely combative older sister (Cecilia Parker), and Andy, the teenager on the right side of mischief-making” read more
“The first pairing of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland finds the pair playing second fiddle to a waifish British male youth. No, not Freddie Bartholomew, who seems tailor-made for the lead role and was mysteriously dropped, but Ronald Sinclair, a carbon-copy of Bartholomew. Sinclairās lacking in char” read more
“Judy Garlandās not a girl, not yet a woman in Little Nellie Kelly, an oddball film that has her playing both mother and daughter. Loosely based on the George M. Cohan play of the same name, Garland finds herself stuck between the opposing male forces of her life in both incarnations and a metric t” read more
“Rarely has 75 minutes feel so interminable as it does during Listen, Darling. The plot is a bit of nonsense that plays like the lamest of sitcom conceits: two siblings (Judy Garland and Scotty Beckett) enlist their best friend (Freddie Bartholomew) to help kidnap their mom (Mary Astor) so she doesnā” read more
“There sure is a lot here. Broadway Melody of 1938 is one of those āsomething for everyoneā entertainments that winds up being of little value to anyone. It doesnāt settle into its backstage theatrical story, its supporting plot about an aging performer is just there, and thereās a lot of tim” read more
“A cinematic oddity that splices together campus comedy, sports underdog (football, in this case), and manic musical intoā¦ something. Iām not quite sure what it all is, but itās a lot of something thatās diverting if thin. Thereās wisecracking Patsy Kelly and an effete Jack Haley as a marri” read more
