Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judy Garland Sings (MGM, 8 sides). Judy in her best style in some tunes from MGM's old sound tracks: Get Happy, Johnny One Note, Look for the Silver Lining, Who and four others...
...With a Cloak (MGM) is a slow but tolerable melodrama, set in 1848 Manhattan, about a velvet-gloved struggle between good & evil forces for the wealth of a dying reprobate (Louis Calhern). Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a sweet young thing sent from Paris by the old man's grandson, wants the money for the cause of the French Republic. His calculating housekeeper-mistress (Barbara Stanwyck) wants him to die in a hurry while she is still favored in his will...
...American In Paris (MGM) is a grand show-a brilliant combination of Hollywood's opulence and technical wizardry with the kind of taste and creativeness that most high-budgeted musicals notoriously lack. The Technicolorful result is smart, dazzling, genuinely gay and romantic, and as hard to resist as its George Gershwin score...
Angels in the Outfield (MGM) answers an orphan's prayers by summoning down a heavenly host to help the Pittsburgh Pirates win the National League pennant.* Paul Douglas, as the team's profane manager, spurns this divine assistance until a thunderbolt and some pep-talks from Archangel Gabriel turn him into a true believer...
...People Against O'Hara (MGM) deals with dipsomania and murder against the background of Manhattan's Fulton fish market. Lawyer Spencer Tracy, withdrawn from criminal practice because he was becoming involved emotionally in the struggle for clients' lives, reluctantly agrees to defend a neighborhood boy accused of murder. As the pressures mount, Tracy places more & more reliance on alcohol, ineptly bribes a state's witness, and fumbles his attempt to pin the crime on Waterfront Boss Eduardo Cianneili...