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| ACTORS: | Judy Garland, Fred Astaire |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Charles Walters |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 08 July, 1948 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 012569707221 |
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Customer Reviews of Easter Parade (Two-Disc Special Edition)
It doesn't get much better than this! Irving Berlin's "Easter Parade," starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire is about as good as vintage Hollywood musicals get. Produced in 1948 by M-G-M's top musical producer, Arthur Freed, "Easter Parade" is a tuneful romp that features stellar performances by its stars, and a top-flight Irving Berlin score. Musical standards include "A Couple Of Swells," "Steppin' Out With My Baby," "Shakin' The Blues Away," and the title song. This film is currently available on DVD - but only on a pricey 3-DVD set paying deserving tribute to Judy Garland. The film co-stars Anne Miller and Peter Lawford in appropriately .... charming (respectively) support. Its plot is simple: Astaire is a Broadway hoofer whose partner (Miller) has left him for a spot in The Ziegfeld Follies. Garland is the singer (no great dancer is she, at the start) who is summarily hired by Astaire as Miller's replacement. A love triangle (and much musical-comedy bliss) ensues, and great fun is to be had by anyone watching this great vintage movie musical. Astaire is marvelous here, and Judy (if you loved her as the teenaged Dorothy in "The Wizard Of Oz," and who didn't?) is sublime as always. Buy it, rent it, steal it if you have to. "Easter Parade" is not to be missed.
I love this movie!
I am a Judy Garland and Fred Astaire fan. The first time I saw this film was on Easter sunday on TCM. I only saw the last half I was not too impressed. I have to admit I bought the movie only for Garland. When I got home my whole family gathered round the TV to watch it. I was amazed. The musical numbers are all superb, Irving Berlin's score is perfect, Ann Miller and Peter Lawford are equally super, Garland (like usual) is vocally and comically outstanding, and Astaire's dancing is as good as ever! I think Astaire is a better mach for Garland than Mickey Rooney (sorry Mickey) and Garland is even more suitable for Astaire than Ginger Rogers! Even my dad who claims to hate musicals fell in love with this charmer. I've seen it at least 5 times and it has never bored me. I was lucky enough to buy the MGM version; not the one patterned with Warner Bros. I mean MGM made the movie give them alittle credit! Any way this movie will entertain everyone I highly recomend it!
Garland! Astaire! MIller! Lawford! Berlin! -- and more!
It goes without saying that Easter Parade is one of the greatest MGM musicals ever made. Fred Astaire and Judy Garland make a wonderful dancing, singing and acting team! As you may know from all the reviewers before me, Astaire plays the part of Don Hewes, a very famous dancer, who is very upset after his love interest and dance partner Nadine (played by Ann Miller) leaves him to pursue an even more lucrative career on the stage. In anger and disgust he impulsively vows that he could turn any woman into a better dancer than his partner had been-and he makes a great pick! Hannah Brown, played by Judy Garland, is (of course) not too good at dancing at first, but with much coaching and hard work Hewes (Astaire) builds her into a dancing star as his new partner! (As the Amazon review points out, while watching this film I was reminded more than once of the musical My Fair Lady. There is that theme of the older, more experienced and educated man coaching, teaching and molding a younger woman.)
This film offers a love triangle with Peter Lawford also being attracted to Garland but he doesn't get far as she is very much in love with Hewes (Astaire). The musical numbers are outstanding thanks to the incomparable Irving Berlin, Garland, and Astaire. Ann Miller (playing Nadine, Astaire's former partner) also does a fantastic job with her dance number while singing "Shakin' The Blues Away." Indeed, it's hard to decide which numbers are the best; they're all so well done and beautifully filmed! "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and the title song are particularly strong numbers; so is "We're A Couple Of Swells," a vaudeville-type number that Garland liked very much.
The choreography is excellent. The dancing is superlative and they must have really put a lot of effort into a dance routine with Garland and Astaire early on in the film where she dances almost every step wrong!
I recommend this movie for lovers of classic musicals, Garland fans, Astaire fans, Miller fans as well as aficionados of great quality films. Get this movie for your collection today and you'll never regret it! A BUY! GRIN