Words and Music Norman Taurog Digital Life DVD

Words and Music
starring: Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, June Allyson, Perry Como, Judy Garland
directed by: Norman Taurog

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569795327
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 15755
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 31, 1948

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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/24/2007 Run time: 121 minutes Rating: Nr

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The plot is a hokey whitewash of the careers of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with characters talking in stilted phrases ('Gee, Larry, that's marvelous, really and truly') and complexities reduced to ground zero. But Rodgers and Hart comprised one of the greatest song-writing teams of the 20th century, and Words and Music (1948) is an excuse for a gang of Hollywood's top performers to have their way with the tunes. Mel Tormé croons a melancholy 'Blue Moon,' June Allyson twinkles through 'Thou Swell,' and a climactic ballet to 'Slaughter on 10th Avenue' features Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen in slinky, kicky form. As is often the case in MGM musicals of this period, Lena Horne steals the show with a self-contained sequence (so it could be snipped out in theaters in the U.S. South), here contributing stunning versions of 'The Lady Is a Tramp' and that most mysterious of American pop songs, 'Where or When.'

The film's sense of time is deranged: Perry Como plays an early friend of R&H, then decades later, himself; Garbo's Camille is shown as a silent film, although it was released 10 years after sound came in; and the grown-up Judy Garland plays herself in a period when she would have been a child. The upside is that Garland romps through 'Johnny One Note,' one of many examples of Lorenz Hart's lyrical dexterity. Tom Drake is a dull Rodgers, but Mickey Rooney's buzz-saw energy and crazed appetite might have made a brilliant Larry Hart. In a better movie, that is. --Robert Horton

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- Words and Music
For Hollywood a fairly decent biopic at least better than Night and Day treatment of Cole Porter. It has the great Rodgers and Hart tunes - at least some of them and if they couldn't deal with Laurenz Hart I'm not sure they'd be ready even today. The acting was good the songs terrific, I'd reccomend for any lover of Richard Rodgers musicals.

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- great MGM Musical
This terrific movie has all MGM's great stars singing and dancing to ROdgers and Hart's wonderful songs. It is a loose biograhy of one of the most prolific and excellent music writing teams. Rodgers' music and Hart's clever lyrics shine. The DVD is of high quality. The color and sound are near perfect. I highly recommend this.

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- words and music
the movie is old (1948),but bright and entertaining.A little loose with it's historical facts , but great and nostalgic music

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- Rodgers and Hart
Words and Music This is one of my favorite movies from the 40's. I've seen it numerous times.
Michele Cohen

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