Babes In Arms
Busby Berkeley
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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.
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The original American Idols
This classic MGM movie was the first in a series of successful musicals pairing Hollywood legends Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. As the teenaged children of struggling vaudevillians, they dream of making it big on Broadway. Directed by Busby Berkeley and loaded with memorable songs by the likes of Rodgers and Hart and Arthur Freed, this film delivers. Garland and Rooney were really the first American Idols. They sing, dance, act, and perform comedy material with unparalleled ease, and they supply a lot of fresh zip to the charmingly cliched backstage plot. Babes In Arms was a huge box-office smash in 1939. Rooney, the most popular movie star in the country at the time, was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. This was the first film Garland made after her success earlier that year in The Wizard of Oz, for which she won a special Academy Award.
Pure Talent!
Judy at her best before MGM ran her into the ground! I absolutely love this. Yes the black face scene is hugely racist, but merely a sign of their time. This movie is still magic!
Mickey Rooney is great, but the film is overrated
There's really not much story here, and any musical number without Rooney/Garland is a dud. The blackface scene is tasteless and inexcusable, but I'm not factoring it into this review. Rooney has enough charisma to carry this film for the parts that work, but Singin' In The Rain is a vastly superior film featuring a lot of the same songs and a thematically similar plot.
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- Genre: Musicals
- Released: 1939
- © Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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