Thank you for joining us on our tractor as we plow through the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland homage to the backyard musicals: MGM’s Summer Stock. As the plot chugs along, Nate and I really begin to feel the heat coming off the Judy-Gene screen pairing (are they REALLY kissing? Why the strange jump cut mid-kiss?) and we get to smell some greasepaint and do a little dancing on newspapers. Why is this movie so much fun??? And please check out the fantastic book "C'mon, GetHappy: The Making of Su...
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Thank you for joining us on our tractor as we plow through the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland homage to the backyard musicals: MGM’s Summer Stock. As the plot chugs along, Nate and I really begin to feel the heat coming off the Judy-Gene screen pairing (are they REALLY kissing? Why the strange jump cut mid-kiss?) and we get to smell some greasepaint and do a little dancing on newspapers. Why is this movie so much fun??? And please check out the fantastic book "C'mon, GetHappy: The Making of Su...
For our third and final MGM history episode, Nate and I conclude our look at a movie company that was a small city unto itself in Culver City. Riding high in the mid-40s, the studio faced external forces that threaten its existence by the end of the decade. New stars like Lana Turner, Hedy Lamarr and Van Johnson enter the scene after the exit of MGM stars like Garbo, Shearer and Crawford and the tone of MGM changes with the war. At this time producer Arthur Freed forever puts MGM musicals on ...
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Thank you for joining us on our tractor as we plow through the Gene Kelly/Judy Garland homage to the backyard musicals: MGM’s Summer Stock. As the plot chugs along, Nate and I really begin to feel the heat coming off the Judy-Gene screen pairing (are they REALLY kissing? Why the strange jump cut mid-kiss?) and we get to smell some greasepaint and do a little dancing on newspapers. Why is this movie so much fun??? And please check out the fantastic book "C'mon, GetHappy: The Making of Su...
