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Girl Crazy (1943) starring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland

Girl Crazy

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Girl Crazy (1943) starring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland

In Girl Crazy, a teenage playboy is sent to a Western school by his father. There aren’t supposed to be any girls for miles around, but … Two lades, competing to be rodeo queen, compete for the young man’s affections. One of the best of the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney “Let’s put on a show” musicals. Driven by a George and Ira Gershwin musical score.

Girl Crazy

Flying High [Bert Lahr]

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Flying High (1931) starrring Bert Lahr, Charlotte Greenwood

Flying High is Bert Lahr’s film debut – and a screwball comedy. He’s creating an early prototype of the helicopter … but needs money. Charlotte Greenwood has money, but needs a husband …

Flying High [Bert Lahr]

Babes in Arms

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Babes in Arms (1939) starring Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, directed by Busby Berkeley

In Babes in Arms, Mickey Moran, son of an old vaudeville-team puts on his own show to avoid being sent with other vaudevillians’ children to a work farm, but that isn’t that easy.

Babes in Arms

Billy Rose’s Jumbo

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Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962), starring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger

Synopsis of Billy Rose’s Jumbo

In Billy Rose’s Jumbo, Pop and Kitty Wonder are the owners of the Wonder Circus. Because of Pop’s gambling addiction, they’re constantly in debt, with creditors very close to foreclosing on them. Their main attraction is Jumbo the Elephant.  Their competitor, John Noble, wants Jumbo and to take their show. Out of nowhere, a mysterious new wire walker named Sam Rawlins joins.  Kitty is taken with him, but what they don’t know is that he is Noble’s son.

Review of Billy Rose’s Jumbo

Billy Rose’s Jumbo

For Me and My Gal

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For Me and My Gal (1942), starring Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, George Murphy

For Me and My Gal is a good many things — an ode to vaudeville, with some excellent song and dance routines, a “boy meets girl” movie, the film debut of Gene Kelly, a patriotic movie — and a very good movie overall. Frankly, what’s most refreshing about  For Me and My Gal is that the protagonist is a flawed person.  His flaws lead to his problems, and whose overcoming them leads to character growth.

For Me and My Gal
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