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This year 2004 marks the first appearance of this enormous Judy Garland film (one of her last for MGM) on DVD. This film is based upon an earlier James Stewart film THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER and was recently remade as YOU’VE GOT MAIL. This novel restored print is an improvement over the previous VHS release. The narrate has been cleaned up and colors inspect brighter and bolder than ever before, as we inquire of with 3-strip Technicolor, though there are collected a FEW age related artifacts note, but I am forgiving enough to ogle beyond this. In general, the novel transfer is pleasing. The soundtrack sounds equally as impressive and has been cleaned up very nicely for this release.
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Included on the disc are trailers for this film, THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, and YOU’VE GOT MAIL. I really don’t know why the latter was included here, it lends nothing whatsoever to this release, and practically everyone in the country has seen it by now. There are no other “extras” to insist of. We wish that the deleted musical number, “Last Night When We Were Young,” sung by Judy Garland, had been included as a bonus on this disc. Both the footage and soundtrack for this number survive, and it was included in the Outtakes portion of the fourth disc of the modern That’s Entertainment 4-disc boxed spot, released this past October. Why wasn’t it included here?
On the whole, this is a very commendable release from Warner Home Video, but if you aloof have the VHS tape there’s no dependable special reason to rush out and catch the DVD.
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Look for an 18 month veteran Liza Minnelli during the closing scenes, making her film debut.
Despite this charming film’s misleading title the majority of the narrative takes state in winter in the lead up to the Christmas season. It does however feature one of Judy Garland’s best later performances made in an all to rare trauma free moment in the leisurely 1940′s for this legendary actress/singer when her health problems were affecting her ability to fabricate before the camera. Amazingly none of that is evident in “In the Valid Used Summertime”, which finds her delivering a wonderfully controlled and at times wistful performance as a young employee of a music store in turn of the century Chicago who is having a romantic letter correspondance with a penpal who addresses himself simply as “dear friend”. Given its setting of a music shop “In the Reliable Venerable Summertime”, also offers Judy Garland a number of opportunities to show some blooming musical interludes in her modern style.
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It was a stroke of genius by MGM to settle to remake as a musical it’s earlier 1940 classic “The Shop Around the Corner” which starred James Stewart and another highly strung female performer in Margaret Sullavan. The results here are almost as effective as in the earlier film and Garland and Van Johnson design a enjoyable camouflage team. Based on the play “The Shop Around the Corner “, by Miklos Laszlo, the action this time has been moved from demonstrate day Budapest to turn of the century Chicago. Indeed this fair film bares a strong resemblance to Garland’s earlier classic “Meet Me in St. Louis”,and here the atmosphere is objective as rich where the action centres around Oberkugen’s Music Store urge by the memorable Otto Oberkugan (S.Z.Sakall), and his colourful group of employees in the store. Chief among them is Andrew Larkin (Van Johnson) who is a promising store clerk. Andrew however has a very prickly relationship with unusual employee Veronica Fisher (Garland) and both seem to always fetch something to disagree about. However what both dont realise is that the romances they are respectively enjoying via the mail out of work hours and which have progressed from “incandescent topics” to dependable adore, are actually with each other! As the pen pal letter exchange deepens into worship it is agreed that the two will meet. Andrew however sees Veronica already waiting in the restaurant and in his disappointment decides not to go in. Thinking about it longer and realising Veronica is his pen pal Andrew decides to give her a hard time about it and in a laughable location enters the restaurant and engages her in conversation noteworthy to Veronica’s consternation as she believes her “date”, will be due to turn up at any exiguous. Assist at the store however things slowly commence to thaw between the two and when Andrew gets into deep wretchedness with Mr. Oberkugan for lending his prize violin to friend Louise (Marcia Van Dyke), for an audition he finds himself fired. The staff rally around him and its up to Otto’s long suffering secretary Nellie (Spring Byington) and Veronica to effect him glimpse the error of his ways. Otto relents for his behaviour and Andrew is made the unique manager however Veronica decides she must be the one to leave and its only during a romantic interlude alone in the darkened shop on Christmas Eve that Andrew reveals his actual appreciate for her. Veronica also confesses her deep worship for her primitive antagonist and the scene cuts away to the couple in a warm summer setting happily married and with a elegant young two year old-fashioned daughter (Liza Minneli) .
“In The Noble Used Summertime”, boasts many memorable musical numbers including the title song, “I Don’t Care”, “Build Your Arms Around Me Honey”, the comic “Play The Barbershop Chord”, and my personal favourite “Merry Christmas”. In all of these numbers apart from her shapely singing style Judy Garland proves what an exceptional talent she was in comedy, pantomine and more energic pieces such as the barbershop number. Here is a talented actress in the paunchy bloom of her capabilities who was unfortunately honest about to exit the musical movie stage for quite some time. The supporting cast is exceptional with such aesthetic droll talents as S.Z. Sakall and Spring Byington providing the top level benefit that they delivered in film after film in this period. Some rarities also pop up in “In The Superb Venerable Summertime”, as we notice dilapidated Buster Keaton play Otto’s brow beaten nephew to comely conclude in his last MGM appearance and in the final scene reality and movie fantasy putrid as Judy Garland’s dependable life daughter Liza Minnelli plays her and Johnson’s movie child in the last scene. Restful star Anna Q. Nilsson also has a puny piece as a woman buying one of the infuriating harps that reoccur in the narrative. MGM talent is abundantly on present in all departments here. The director Robert Z. Leonard who helmed the classic “Maytime”, for MGM, was only brought in after Garland nixed plans by the studio to give the assignment to her husband Vincente Minnelli as the pair were having difficulties at the time. The choreography is top rate and was handled by Robert Alton who was responsible for the innovative dance numbers in Garland’s previous film “Easter Parade”. Cedric Gibbons’ stunning work in state execute also deserves mention for giving the film its comely appearance and period flavour.
After this pains Judy Garland sadly went into a steep decline health wise and after completing only one more film “Summer Stock”, and being released from an aborted attempt to film “Royal Wedding “, with Fred Astaire her MGM contract was terminated. None of this sadness is evident in “In The Generous Conventional Summertime”, thankfully and what we have here is a movie with exquisite technicolour, many magnificent musical numbers delivered by Garland and a silly, and touching record residence against a dazzling “MGM”, Christmas. Be Pleased Judy Garland at the top of her talents in MGM’s “In The Proper Archaic Summertime”.
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