Words and Music
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Movie Reviews of Words and Music
Movie Review: Musical at its best.
Summary: 5 Stars
Nostalgia at its best,as far as musicals go.A gallaxy of stars in the cast.The music was A.1.I was spellbound right to the end.I can't praise it any more than that.All I can say now is.I'm glad I bought it. Bruce.Movie Review: Words and Music
Summary: 5 Stars
Great cast. You can't beat these classic musicals. No one today can match the brilliance of these kinds of movies. Always love watching this movie and I am glad to have it in my classic musicals collection.Movie Review: WORDS AND MUSIC DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
WANTED TO REPLACE MY FHS TAPE OF THIS MOVIE TO DVD. ALWAYS ENJOYED THE MUSICAL STARS OF THAT ERA AND THE GREAT MUSIC OF THIS FILM.Movie Review: words and music
Summary: 5 Stars
the movie is old (1948),but bright and entertaining.A little loose with it's historical facts , but great and nostalgic musicMovie Review: The music makes it all worthwhile
Summary: 4 Stars
Everything they say about the hokey quality of the movie and how whitewashed it was for the big screen is true. It was a completely sanitized version of Lorenz Hart's life which was more akin to THE RAZOR'S EDGE than this fluffy confection. That said, it's all about the music and there's a treasure trove here to enjoy.
Judy Garland's turn as herself is terrific. Yes, she would have been herself at her WIZARD OF OZ age at a Hollywood party when Rodgers & Hart would have been there holding court, but let's not let the truth get in the way here. Judy was sick and dangerously thin and owed MGM a film appearance, when they dragged her out of bed to do one number (I can't remember which one she did first -- I think it was the duet with Mickey) and then, several weeks later, MGM execs were ecstatic with the results and brought her back for an encore. She needed the money and they paid her $50,000 for each song. She'd gained about 10-20 pounds in the interim and if you look closely, you can see that they costume department had to make changes in the dress she wore in order to accommodate the extra (much needed) weight. (The two numbers are in the film, played back to back, so it's as if she did both songs at one party...so there would be no reason for ANY continuity problems but for the fact that they shot the material several weeks apart.)
Her appearance in this film offered up her final MGM pairing with Mickey Rooney (their first in Technicolor); they wouldn't work together again until the summer of 1963 when he guest-starred on the first episode of THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW for CBS. They were terrific and their perf of I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN was top notch. One other bit of trivia -- that song was in the original score of BABES IN ARMS, but when MGM made that film in 1939, they decided that Mickey and Judy were too young to perform it at the time. So, in 1948, song-justice was served when they got to do it together on screen.
Anyway, that alone is worth the price of admission...but Lena Horne's turn along with a bevy of other MGM stars makes for solid first rate fare.