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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everybody Sing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stars 15-year-old Judy Garland, Hollywood's latest child singer. She turns the morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Francisco Samuel Goldwyn, hard-working film producer, released a pithy Goldwynism: "I go to a movie every night. Why not? I've got to do something to take my mind off my business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Goldwyn Follies (Samuel Goldwyn). Producer Goldwyn is no subscriber to the theory of his rival producer, Darryl Zanuck: that a screen musicomedy should be tightly woven, integrating songs and dances as part of its body proper. Mr. Goldwyn's technique is to spin a revue: a slender thread of narrative linking a series of specialties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...specialties displayed in The Goldwyn Follies are sometimes brilliant, sometimes dull, always expensive. The Ritz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two elaborate dances, one a banal number, the other (high point of the picture) a superlatively beautiful water nymph dance in which Zorina, in skintight gold tunic, rises from the bottom of a fountain to astound a gentleman in dinner clothes. The Goldwyn girls, trade-mark of every Sam Goldwyn musical, appear only in the jazz v. classics ballet, are sorely missed thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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