Thursday, February 14, 2013

Judy Busby & Julie

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You have made your picks! The three musicals out of The Best of Warner Brothers - 20 Film Collection: Musicals boxed-set that I will be watching and reviewing are 1933's 42nd Street (with famed choreography from Busby Berkeley), George Cukor's 1954 flick A Star is Born with Judy Garland giving what many people consider her finest performance, and Blake Edwards' 1982 gender-bender Victor Victoria with Julie Andrews mussing up her do-gooder image as a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. These three pulled ahead early on and never looked back. 

I've seen bits of 42nd Street - definitely the Busby sequence at the end, at least. My boyfriend loves him some Busby so it's been around the house before. (And I loathe Ruby Keeler and her smug face, for the record. Team Blondell!) But the other two I'm a total virgin for. So stay tuned! More to come, of the stomping and hand waving and uvula flapping sort, right soon.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yuck. Victor Victoria is awful. Only for boring queens.

joel65913 said...

Good choices. I'm sure A Star is Born is the restored version with some of the lost scenes shown with photos and the soundtrack behind them. It adds a lot to the fullness of the story of the film but it does take a bit to get use to the different rhythm that they give to the first portion of the picture. They only take up a small part of the film but it helps to know that they are going to be there before watching the movie.