Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303912653 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303912656 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: January 02, 1996 Running Time: 114 minutes Sales Rank: 15980 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: 1945
Rating: - Musical Numbers & Grable Star Power Outweigh Uninspired Material
20th Century Fox had an impressive track record with musicals during the 1930s and 1940s, turning out one box office smash after another--but for all their great popularity at the time they were not usually liked by the critics and most film historians tend to be dismissive of them even to this day. There is a reason for that: although they were well designed and well crafted, they were seldom innovative and they existed as star vehicles plain and simple, flyweight creations shot through with lots of American boosterism and jingoism and designed to show off a female star. And in the 1940s that star was Betty Grable.
Grable (1916-1973) knocked around Hollywood for a decade without gaining much attention--but after a stint on Broadway led to the popular 1940 movie DOWN ARGENTINE WAY she was suddenly 20th Century Fox's hottest property. It seems unlikely: she wasn't classically pretty, had a pleasant ... Read More
Rating: - The Dolly Sisters
If you like old-time musicals you'll enjoy this. I loved "The Dolly Sisters" as a kid and later on wondered if VHS or DVD existed but doubted it. I was happy to find a copy at a decent price. I still love it but see that it's not as "glitzy" as I thought it was when I was young. I still love the music and always liked the Stars who were in it. I'm very happy that I bought it.
Rating: - lavish remake of "Tin Pan Alley"
Essentially a lavish technicolor remake of the B&W 1940 film "Tin Pan Alley", including 2 of the stars of the original: John Payne and Betty Grable. Both films have their relative pluses and minuses. I enjoyed the many outlandish costumes of the female stars and various extras, a common feature of many 1940s musicals. Grable and Haver are much more of a sister act than Alice Faye and Grable were in the original, where they mostly performed their own numbers. The troubled on again off again romances in the present film, which fill in between the musical shows, get awfully tedious, more so than in the original. If Alice Faye had taken the part of June Haver, as originally planned, it would have been interesting to see if she were again cast as the dominant sister(I doubt it). To me, Faye has more charisma than Haver, but the latter makes a more look alike sister for Grable. I really missed Jack Oakie in this ... Read More
Rating: - loves to read
Super oldtime mucical with wonderful top shelf actors and a lovely story line.
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