Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
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Actor: David Brown, Don Ameche, Joan Collins, Phil Baker, Walter BrennanBrand: Image Entertainment
Producer: Kevin Burns
Writer: Kevin Burns
Producer: Kim Egan
Producer: Michael Matessino
Writer: Michael Matessino
Producer: Shelley Lyons
Producer: Vicki Crawford
Writer: Jerry Decker
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Movie Review: Odd Man Out
Summary: 3 Stars
First of all, I'm a little confused as at least half the crits on this page refer to Hidden Hollywood 2. I'm writing about the original Hidden Hollywood, and that's what makes me the Odd Man Out, as I seem to be the only one who doesn't think it was worth the money. I'd say there was around half an hour of interesting material in this compilation - the clips involving Grable, Faye, and Merman/Dailey/Gaynor/O'Connor, Bojangles/Shirley Temple, and an interesting account of how "Hot Spot" became "I Wake Up Screaming" merely by eliminating Betty Grable's songs and making her a stenographer. From musical to cinema noir with a clip of the scissors. The rest of the stuff should have stayed on the cutting room floor...sequences such as the incomprehensible Bert Lahr number, the so-called comedy duo Weber and Fields, and the painful resurrection of a quiz sequence conducted by Phil Baker who had no looks, no charisma, and certainly no visible talent. This out-take from "The Gang's All Here" makes one wonder why he was in it anyway, and why more of his dreary contribution to that otherwise entertaining extravaganza wasn't cut out too. There's also a yawn-inducing sequence from the otherwise sparkling We're Not Married - no wonder it was cut. Hope Emerson dragging herself around an obvious studio bayou set isn't my idea of entertainment. Yet another example of the dull padding in what promised to be a scintillating collection. Maybe we've been spoiled by MGM. To cap everything, this cheap compilation doesn't even have a menu with a scene selection feature, which is absolutely necessary when there's so much to skip over. Oh yes, and we have a heavily-pancaked Joan Collins prowling the archive aisles with a laughable slink, and displaying all the warmth of a pair of eyebrow tweezers.
Summary of Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Take an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at rare and exciting musical and dance sequences deleted from classic Fox films! Vital to an age devoted to film preservation and restoration, this collection of rarities offers behind-the-scenes stories about the cutting of major footage from movies and shows these outtakes as they would have originally been seen. Includes: "Hop, Skip and Jump" performed by Shirley Temple (deleted from "Little Miss Broadway"); a dance number performed by Betty Grable (deleted from "Footlight Serenade"); "The Woof Song" performed by Bert Lahr (deleted from "Love and Hisses"); two dance sequences featuring Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, cut from the film "Cafe Metropole," including the original opening sequence; "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" performed by Ethel Merman and Dan Dailey (deleted from "There's No Business Like Show Business"); Katherine Hepburn's first appearance on film in an early screen test made in 1932, in which she performs a scene from "The Animal Kingdom."The proper title isn't so much Hidden Hollywood as Cool Stuff We Found in the Vault at Twentieth Century Fox. This grab bag consists of segments snipped from Fox pictures for reasons of length or content, and the results are uneven but fascinating. Musical numbers abound and provide some fun, but Fox wasn't exactly MGM (and remember, this is the material deemed expendable). The jewels in the first volume include two routines from Caf? Metropole, starring the graceful dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and a bizarre patter song by Bert Lahr that qualifies as authentic American surrealism (as host Joan Collins admits, the studio cut the song because they were completely bewildered by it). There's also an entire, self-contained sequence from the omnibus film We're Not Married, featuring an irascible Walter Brennan in an amusing Tobacco Road-style vignette. Plus, Edward Everett Horton does a pantomime of Gypsy Rose Lee: a golden 10 seconds. --Robert Horton
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