For Bob Lipton who wrote review in 2014: Bob, how did you come to viewing this movie? The Ginger Rogers world has been looking for this "lost" film for years. It was discovered, restored and viewed a couple years ago, with viewings at the Turner Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Since then it has seemingly again been buried. If you reviewed this, surely you saw copy of the film. We'd love to know more about it! Thanks!!
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3 Reviews
Kitty Foyle
(1940)
Note to comment in other area.
11 August 2017
No time for a worthy review of Ginger's greatest triumph, but did want to leave a note on a trivia or goof item mentioned above. Writer commented about Kitty's adolescent years, living in different locations. For clarity on this subject, the reader/viewer needs to read the book by Christopher Morley. In viewing the film, be advised that the movie goers in 1941 watching this film had likely read the book, which was a big hit in its day. In the book, Kitty briefly spent some time in the Illinois town mentioned.
Children of Pleasure
(1930)
Great for Film Historians!
3 August 2014
Previous reviewers have hit the high spots in summarizing this 1930s musical from MGM. Lots of criticism has been thrown at the perceived inadequacies of the music and dance aspects of the movie. Yes, when looking at it through today's eyes, it looks dated, simplistic, and fairly unpolished. But the higher standards of the coming years hadn't arrived yet, so let's give this a break! Indeed the dance numbers could have been better rehearsed. If one looks closely, the footwork in the production numbers, while lacking Astaire/Rogers-like precision, is still pretty close. Where the real problems come are in the areas of arm, hand, head, and other body motions. It looks like those aspects of performance were never discussed with the cast, so the resulting dances look sloppy. But this was a step in the process of giving us the higher-level musical that some of us love so very much! Watch this film when you get the chance and enjoy this chapter in the development of an All-American art form!
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