Alice Faye Collection 2 (Rose of Washington Square/Hollywood Cavalcade/The Great American Broadcast/Hello, Frisco, Hello/Four Jills in a Jeep) (Full Chk Gift)
by Buster Keaton, Archie Mayo, Gregory Ratoff, H. Bruce Humberstone, Irving Cummings
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Actor: Alan Curtis, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Stuart ErwinDirector: Archie Mayo, Buster Keaton, Gregory Ratoff, H. Bruce Humberstone, Irving Cummings
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Writer: Brown Holmes
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 462 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Alice Faye Collection 2 (Rose of Washington Square/Hollywood Cavalcade/The Great American Broadcast/Hello, Frisco, Hello/Four Jills in a Jeep) (Full Chk Gift)
Movie Review: Where's Wake Up & Live?
Summary: 4 Stars
Alice Faye is a great personality and deserves as much attention as possible. Her roles in the various Shirley Temple films illustrate her kind nature and warm personality. But there are others that should be brought forward. The 1938 spectacular "Wake UP and Live" with Jack Haley, Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie's Orchestra is a wonderful musical. It should be reissued.
Dave R
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Summary of Alice Faye Collection 2 (Rose of Washington Square/Hollywood Cavalcade/The Great American Broadcast/Hello, Frisco, Hello/Four Jills in a Jeep) (Full Chk Gift)
Disc 1: The Great American Broadcast Disc 2: Four Jills in a Jeep Disc 3: Rose of Washington Square Disc 4: Hollywood Cavalcade Disc 5: Hello, Frisco, HelloHere's round two of Alice Faye's career at Twentieth Century Fox, five films that effortlessly capture the all-American appeal of "the lady with the velvet throat," as she is introduced in Four Jills and a Jeep. Until she simply walked away from film in 1945, Faye's star burned brightly in the nonsensical backstage musicals Fox churned out, a daffy World That Never Was. Only one title, Four Jills, is set in its era (1944), and it's not an Alice Faye picture--she pops up for a cameo, singing "You'll Never Know." The movie's actually about USO performers Kay Francis, Martha Raye, Carole Landis, and Mitzi Mayfair, who really had toured in England and North Africa performing "for the boys." The rest of the films are firmly set in studio chief Darryl Zanuck's beloved past: Hollywood Cavalcade is a typical Fox nostalgia trip, set during the birth of silent cinema. Budding director Don Ameche builds his moviemaking career on the talent of his star (Faye), without noticing that she's in love with him. The film lets Buster Keaton stage a few slapstick sequences, and there are bits from silent-movie luminaries, including Ben Turpin, Mack Sennett, and Al Jolson. Jolson has a major role in Rose of Washington Square (1939), probably the most interesting film in the set. This one's a lightly-fictionalized version of the story of Fanny Brice's unhappy marriage to Nicky Arnstein (later the basis for Funny Girl), with Faye a very WASPish Brice and Tyrone Power the ne'er-do-well she just can't help lovin'. Faye tries Brice's signature song, "My Man," and Jolson does some of his signature stuff, including his blackface routine. In the event, Fanny Brice was not pleased; as a helpful DVD featurette explains, she sued and won.
E20 1941's The Great American Broadcast, directed by workhorse Archie Mayo, does for radio what Cavalcade did for silent pictures. This time John Payne and Jack Oakie are inventing the wireless network; Alice is a saloon singer whose crooning helps their plan succeed (but of course fails to impress Payne for far too long). Along with Faye's singing, some terrific numbers by the Ink Spots and the incredible Nicholas Brothers help this formula along. A big hit in 1943, Hello, Frisco, Hello brought Payne and Oakie back, with Alice once again waiting around for Barbary Coast entrepreneur Payne to notice that they're in love. This is where Faye's marvelous low, mellow voice introduced "You'll Never Know," which the movie wisely keeps reprising. Technicolor-ful to the point where you might need sunglasses, this is one of those loony, stupefyingly mush-headed musicals that make you wonder whether Hollywood had collectively gone mad, or possibly ingested hallucinogenic substances. The excellent prints for these films show off Fox's scrupulous studio style. No commentary tracks, but a selection of featurettes gives smart and relevant background for the movies. --Robert Horton
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