Product Description: Based on the lives of big-band stars Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, a musical Biography begining with therir childhood in Pennsylvania town.
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Rating: - Fabulous Dorseys
This is not a great movie, but if you like the music from the 30s & 40s it's nice to see the original artists perform.
Rating: - The Dorsey music, what there is of it, is fine, but it keeps being interrupted by the acting
Why spend a moment slogging through this awkward and self-conscious movie? Every now and then, after an hour of tedious plot and amateur acting, we start getting bits and pieces of the big band swing that made Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, separately and together, the great musicians they were. Occasionally -- in a jam session with Art Tatum, with Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra doing "Marie" and, a standout, Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra fronting Bob Eberle and Helen O'Connell singing "Green Eyes" -- we get a complete song.
Unfortunately, the movie is in the public domain and the DVD transfer is just as bad as the acting. My copy has only four chapter stops. That means you can get arthritis in your fast-forward finger trying to speed through to where the good stuff is. The swamp you're moving through is Hollywood's version of the life and battles of the two Dorseys. Tommy, superb on trombone, and Jimmy, superb ... Read More
Rating: - big bands
I love most big band stories. The Fabulous Dorseys is exceptional.Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves which was great. The music is fantastic.
Rating: - Good movie but I wish the story went further
This is a great movie that actually features the Dorsey's themselves. The movie tells the story of Jimmie and Tommy Dorsey growing up and their start to the music business. The story is good and the music is, of course, great. My only complaint is that I wish the story would have featured more about their career and less about how the two couldn't get along and so they went their separate ways until their father died when they made up. It's still a good movie and I do recommend it but if you're like me in wanting to learn more about the career you might actually prefer The Glenn Miller story.
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