My Fair Lady is a musical that manages to mix British class warfare in with a love of flowers. I’m always suspicious of the people that claim to love the film, as it’s never the ones I sus...
Damn Yankees is one of the most delightfully goofy musicals of the 1950s. It’s also a pretty damn good sports film. Using archival footage of several prominent 1950s baseball players, shooting o...
Annie Get Your Gun was another MGM musical about the Old West. After having a troubled start that involved firing original star Judy Garland, the movie found its formula. Basically, riotous star Betty...
Show Boat was brought to the silver screen for a third time in 1951. Having had two previous popular releases in 1929 and 1936, there was something about this story that moved people. The Edna Ferber ...
My Dream is Yours first came on my radar because of Bugs Bunny. Well that and a Martin Scorsese documentary that arrived in the 1990s. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies i...
The Harvey Girls proved that even Judy Garland could make a Western. But, it was a musical and Garland wasn’t given a ton of choices in roles early in her career. By that I mean, MGM usually barked ou...
Newly remastered from the original Technicolor® negatives! A treasure trove of fun awaits when a Caribbean beauty (Judy Garland) with a mad crush on a legendary pirate meets a vagabond actor (Gene Kel...
"I've waited a whole year to grow claws like these. Jungle Red!" One of film's greatest lines belongs to a wronged wife who wins back her man with the aid of an aggressive shade of nail polish. First...
Mickey Rooney. Judy Garland. Gershwin music. And Tommy Dorsey to play it. Who could ask for anything more? From Garland's rendition of "But Not for Me" to the grand finale of "I Got Rhythm," Girl Craz...