Word: garlanding
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...Under the prospering influence of World War I Miss Garland flowers into a kind of Elsie Janis...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Jo Hayden (Judy Garland), Jimmy Metcalfe (George Murphy) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly) have one thing in common: they are smalltime song-&-dancers whose hearts are set on one day appearing at that Pantheon of U.S. vaudeville, The Palace. Jimmy is a sort of Irish George Raft, who loves Jo. Jo is a surprisingly sweet young girl, who unfortunately loves Harry. Harry is a dangerous but successful novelty in musicomedy: a character who begins as a squirrel-collared masher and winds up, without too much grinding of gears, as a hero. In the course of this cinemetamorphosis...
...Cinemactor Kelly, expecting a date at The Palace, cripples his hand to dodge the draft, then becomes an overseas Y.M.C.A. entertainer in remorse, at last achieves military valor, the renewed love of Miss Garland and the long-deferred moment on the stage of The Palace...
Along the road, the principals sing and dance Oh, You Beautiful Doll, For Me And My Gal, Till We Meet Again, Ballin' the Jack, How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm. The contagious little tune Ballin' the Jack, as delivered by Miss Garland and Mr. Kelly (helped by Miss Garland's racehorse legs and by a superbly realistic vaudeville audience), is worth the price of admission...
...this nostalgic re-evocation of vaudeville's golden age and the sweeter, simpler times of World War I, Miss Garland and Mr. Kelly do a notable job. Kelly, who made a Broadway hit winter before last in Pal Joey, has flashes of acting intuition which should rate him a special berth, or perhaps a drawing room, in Hollywood. Bony-faced Judy Garland is already well-graduated from a sort of female Mickey Rooney into one of the more reliable song pluggers in the business. She also begins to show symptoms of dramatic sensitiveness, discipline and talent...