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Overview
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Writers:
Guy Bolton (story)
Ben Feiner Jr. (adaptation)
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Release Date:
31 December 1948 (USA) more
Tagline:
The BIGGEST musical! more
Plot:
Fictionalized story of the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. full summary | add synopsis
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Notable only for its many musical numbers. more (25 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | June Allyson | ... | Alisande La Carteloise (in "A Connecticut Yankee") |
 | Perry Como | ... | Eddie Lorrison Anders / Himself |
 | Judy Garland | ... | Herself |
 | Lena Horne | ... | Herself |
 | Gene Kelly | ... | Himself |
 | Mickey Rooney | ... | Lorenz Hart |
 | Ann Sothern | ... | Joyce Harmon |
| Tom Drake | ... | Richard Rodgers |
 | Cyd Charisse | ... | Margo Grant |
| Betty Garrett | ... | Peggy Lorgan McNeil |
 | Janet Leigh | ... | Dorothy Feiner Rodgers |
| Marshall Thompson | ... | Herbert Fields |
| Mel Tormé | ... | Himself |
| Vera-Ellen | ... | Herself |
| Jeanette Nolan | ... | Mrs. Hart |
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120 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Cut from the film was the Perry Como rendition of "Lover." However, in the movie trailer, Mr. Como partially sings the song. The MGM Studio Orchestra plays "Lover" as the movie's opening credits run. more
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Anachronisms: Camille (1936) is treated and presented as if it were a silent film, even though it was made nearly a decade into the sound era. more
Quotes:
Peggy Lorgan McNeil:
I don't think I quite understand.
Lorenz Hart:
You will after you've known me ten or fifteen years.
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Spoofed in It's a Great Feeling (1949) more
Soundtrack:
I Wish I Were in Love Again more
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A sanitized account of the personal lives and professional partnership of Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart. Tom Drake is his usual bland self as Rogers and Mickey Rooney is characteristically over-the-top as the self-destructive, troubled Hart. (According to the film, Hart's problems stemmed from a failed romance with a singer, played here by Betty Garrett. In truth, Hart was gay but this was only part of what contributed to his complicated personality.) The film is notable only for its many musical numbers. Among the highlights: Lena Horne's masterful rendition of "Where or When" and "The Lady is a Tramp"; June Allyson and the Blackburn Twins' charming "Thou Swell"; and Judy Garland and Rooney's spirited "I Wish I Were In Love Again" as well as Garland's dynamic "Johnny One Note". The show-stopper, however, is the brilliant jazz ballet, "Slaughter On Tenth Avenue", choreographed by Gene Kelly and danced expertly by Kelly and the fabulous Vera-Ellen. It, alone, is worth the price of admission.