Vintage Hollywood : Classic musicals

Resource Information

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Label

Vintage Hollywood : Classic musicals

Title remainder

Classic musicals

Title variation

• Classic musicals
• Inspector General
• Road to Bali
• Royal wedding
• Stage door canteen

Contributor

• Hope, Bob, 1903-2003
• Kaye, Danny
• Koster, Henry, 1905-1988
• Lamour, Dorothy, 1914-1996
• Lanchester, Elsa, 1902-1986
• Lane, Burton, 1912-1997
• Lawford, Peter, 1923-1984
• Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986
• Lockhart, Gene, 1891-1957
• McCallister, Lon, 1923-2005
• Powell, Jane, 1929-
• Slezak, Walter, 1902-1983
• Terry, William
• Walker, Cheryl, 1918-1971
• Wynn, Keenan, 1916-1986
• Walker, Hal
• Astaire, Fred
• Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968
• Bates, Barbara, 1925-1969
• Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991
• Borzage, Frank
• Brady, Fred, 1912-1961
• Carson, Sunset, 1920-1990
• Churchill, Sarah, 1914-1982
• Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977
• Donen, Stanley
• Hale, Alan, 1892-1950
• Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003

Subject

• Royal weddings -- England | London -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama
• Feature films
• Mistaken identity -- Drama
• Bali Island (Indonesia) -- Drama
• Musical films

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Musical films

Language

eng

Summary

• Royal wedding: Tom and Ellen are a pair of siblings whose London stage engagement overlaps Princess Elizabeth's royal wedding. If love can make anyone dance on the ceiling and walls, Tom's the one
• Stage Door Canteen: Set at the Stage Door Canteen in New York during World War II ; shows a typical afternoon's entertainment for the men in uniform
• The Inspector General: A corrupt village wrongly suspects the idiot assistant of a medicine-show operator of being the emperor's omnipotent inspector general in disguise
• Road to Bali: Hope and Crosby play a pair of vaudeville performers in competition for Lamour. She must be some gal, because they pursue her all the way to the South Seas island of Bali. There they must contend with all sorts of jungle perils

Related

• Royal wedding
• Stage Door Canteen
• Inspector General
• Road to Bali

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Royal wedding: screenplay, Alan Jay Lerner ; music, Burton Lane ; producer, Arthur Freed ; director, Stanley Donen
• Stage Door Canteen: Produced by Sol Lesser ; directed by Frank Borzage ; screenplay, Delmer Daves; music, Freddie Rich ; C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director
• The Inspector General: directed by Hanry Koster ; screenplay, Philip Rapp, Harry Kurnitz ; songs, Sylvia Fine
• Road to Bali : Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by Frank Butler, Hal Kanter, William Morrow ; directed by Hal Walker

Dewey number

791.43/75

LC call number

PN1997.A1

LC item number

V56 2012

PerformerNote

• Royal wedding: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill, Keenan Wynn, Albert Sharpe
• Stage Door Canteen: Cheryl Walker (Eileen Burke), William Terry (Dakota Smith), Marjorie Riordan (Jean), Lon McCallister (California Jack Gilman), Margaret Early (Ella Sue), Sunset Carson (Tex), Dorothea Kent (Mamie), Fred Brady (Jersey Wallace), Dame Judith Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead, Ralph Bellamy, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Ray Bolger, Benny Goodman, Katharine Hepburn, Gypsy Rose Lee, Alfred Lunt, Harpo Marx, Yehudi Menuhin, Ethel Merman, Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Ethel Waters, Johnny Weissmuller, Ed Wynn, William Demarest, Alan Mowbray, Dame May Whitty, Count Basie, Xavier Cugat, Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser, Guy Lombardo, Freddy Martin
• The Inspector General: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gener Lockhart, Alan Hale, and Walter Catlett
• Road to Bali: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby

Runtime

418

Technique

live action