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Til The Clouds Roll By
(Till the Clouds Roll By)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The true story of Broadway's Iegendary composer, Jerome Kern is brought to Iife by a dazzling array of stars performing his best songs in Iavish production numbers!
The ground-breaking Broadway smash hit of 1927, Showboat, was much more than a triumphant achievement in Jerome Kern's rising career. It marked the dawn of a new age in stage musicals. American audiences had outgrown the sentimentaI British-based musicaI revues that had prevailed since the turn of the century. The briIliant Showboat songbook that Kern created with Oscar Hammerstein Il gave birth to a more mature, sophisticated form of musical theater. After conquering Broadway, Kern moved on to HolIywood in the mid-thirties, and for the next ten years continued to produce a seemingly endIess parade of beautiful melodies. ln 1945, at the age of 60, whiIe assisting in the production of TiIl The CIouds RoIl By, Kern died of a stroke, and the fiIm tribute took on the form of an extended musical eulogy to a beloved artistic genius.
Opening with a bouquet of songs from Kern's masterpiece, Showboat, and closing with a heavenly reprise of "OI' Man River" sung by a young Frank Sinatra, Till The Clouds RoII By features a cavalcade of MGM stars performing over a dozen numbers from Kern's vast repertoire. Judy Garland, fresh from her honeymoon with Vincent MinneIli, appears as Broadway star, MariIyn Miller, and shines in two song & dance sequences directed by her adoring new husband. Van Johnson dances, Lena Horne sings, and AngeIa Lansbury vamps - just a few of the highIights in this fascinating sampIer of the best of Jerome Kern. |
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