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Post by Vits on Mar 1, 2018 10:08:13 GMT
ON THE TOWN was made by the same people that made SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, one of my favorite movies. They both have great dancing sequences, but this one doesn’t have interesting characters or an engaging plot. Some scenes are funny and NEW YORK, NEW YORK is catchy, but none of the other songs are memorable. 5/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog (in English, in Spanish or in Italian).
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 17, 2018 1:19:46 GMT
“On The Town” is will be seen a lot on stage this year because it is the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth (August 25, 1918). The music for the play “On The Town” was composed by Bernstein. It opened on Broadway in December 1944. The movie of the musical came five years later with only five of Bernstein's songs (one is very brief) remaining, the rest newly composed for the film. The six new songs (by Roger Edens) are not bad (they serviceable), but why in Dog's Name did they do that? Meanwhile, I really enjoyed the cast of Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin along with their corresponding girlfriends Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, and Vera-Ellen. I also liked the ending with is ambiguous and bittersweet, not what you would expect from a big budget musical of the time. Otherwise, there is a lot going on – it is a very “busy” film – but doesn’t get very far. Personal Note: I first heard of this film back in the mid or late '60s after seeing Jules Munshin as Fagin in the official Broadway road show of “Oliver!” Further note: Betty Garrett (who sings the Bernstein song “Come Up To My Place” with Sinatra) was later a victim of the blacklist, mainly because of her husband, Larry Parks (“The Jolson Story”) who was an admitted member of the Communist Party. TV producer gave Garrett her first real job after this – breaking her blacklisting – as a neighbor of the Bunker family in “All In The Family.” The cast of "On The Town" - the film
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