Three Little Words
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Movie Reviews of Three Little Words
Movie Review: I love a musical
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the alltime great musicals. There is nothing like am old movie to pass a rainy dayMovie Review: three little words
Summary: 5 Stars
one of the best movies i have seen,had great songs and was most entertainingMovie Review: A congenial musical with Fred Astaire as Bert Kalmar and Red Skelton as Harry Ruby
Summary: 4 Stars
Three Little Words is like a mother's cooking. It may not be haute cuisine, but it's tasty and it's nice sitting around the table with friends and family. The movie, in my opinion, has no great highs and no great lows; it's a genial, comfortable musical with a strong performance by Fred Astaire as Bert Kalmar and a low-key one from Red Skelton as Harry Ruby.
The two met in 1918 and formed a song-writing partnership that lasted until Kalmar's death in 1947. Kalmar wrote the words; Ruby wrote the music. They were successful as Tin Pan Alley writers, on Broadway and in Hollywood. Perhaps what makes the movie so easy going is that in real life the two never had any major conflicts. They liked each other and worked well together. Hollywood, of course, thought some tension was needed to make the movie interesting so some minor issues have been added. These are so soft-pedaled that we hardly notice them as important. And there is always a wife or two to help smooth things over. What we're left with is Astaire and Skelton, Vera-Ellen playing Kalmar's wife and Arlene Dahl playing Ruby's wife, and an ongoing number of Kalmar-Ruby songs sung and danced to. The two stand-outs for me are the Astaire and Vera-Ellen pairings in Where Did You Get That Girl, a fast, funny vaudeville routine, and Thinking of You, a romantic, elegant waltz which ends with a latin beat. Among the songs featured are such Kalmar-Ruby standards as Who's Sorry Now?, I Wanna Be Loved By You, Three Little Words and one of their best, Nevertheless.
Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong,
maybe I'm weak, maybe I'm strong,
but nevertheless I'm in love with you.
Maybe I'll win, maybe I'll lose,
and maybe I'm in for crying the blues,
but nevertheless I'm in love with you.
Somehow, I know at a glance, the terrible chances I'm taking.
Fine at the start, then left with a heart that is breaking.
Maybe I'll live a life of regret,
and maybe I'll give much more than I get,
but nevertheless, I'm in love with you.
We ought to remember, although it's just briefly touched on in the movie, that Kalmar and Ruby provided the songs for three of the Marx Brothers great, early movies, Animal Crackers, Duck Soup and Horsefeathers. Try not thinking of Groucho when you hear this one:
"Hooray for Captain Spaulding!
The African Explorer!"
"Did someone call me shnorrer?"
"Hooray, hooray, hooray!"
Fred Astaire not only provides the creative focus with his dancing, but he gives a strong performance as a confidant guy always thinking of ways to do more. He may overshadow Red Skelton's Ruby but I think that was the nature of their partnership. Skelton plays Ruby as a lovable, slightly naive big lug. He does a nice job of it. Vera-Ellen, as always with her movies, had her singing dubbed, in this case by Anita Ellis. A legend seems to have grown about how awful a singer she was. As far as I know there is only one recording that contains Vera-Ellen singing her own songs. This is the CD of A Connecticut Yankee, the 1943 Broadway revival where Vera-Ellen played the comic second female lead. She does a fine job. She has no vibrato, sings flat out and comes perilously close to missing a note now and then, but her personality shines though; she's funny, sexy and endearing.
The DVD of Three Little Words looks and sounds great. Among the extras is a short feature about the two song-writing partners.
Movie Review: Better than I expected
Summary: 4 Stars
I began this movie feeling very skeptical as to whether it would be a Fred movie to stand up to his earlier ones. I was happily mistaken though-although it isn't a great dancing movie, it's an entertaining movie about two songwriting pals. It was a change to see Fred Astaire in an a movie not focused on his individual dancing but on classic tunes, and it turned out alright. I would watch this movie over again any rainy day.Movie Review: Fred, Vera, Red and Arlene - 4 famous names in 3 Little Words
Summary: 4 Stars
MGM was and hopefully still is known for the studio that created the best, most colorful and lavish musicals in the history of film. These bio pics help to enjoy song and dance and you end up being in a great mood. However if you have to write a paper on the lives of Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar, you won't win. The stories of these bio pics are usually so far from the truth. But have fun watching anyway.