Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revue"

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King of Jazz **** (1930, Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris) – Classic Movie Review 12,239

Bandleader Paul Whiteman’s rich, appealing and enjoyable 1930 early two-colour Technicolor musical revue film The King of Jazz boasts Bing Crosby and a batch of hit songs of the day. It dumps any narrative in favour […]

Jul, 19

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 **** (1929, Jack Benny, Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Marion Davies) – Classic Movie Review 6297

The MGM studio throws all its contract stars it could find (with the notable exception of Greta Garbo) into director Charles F Reisner’s 1929 all-star hit movie revue (the concept was obviously then in vogue) […]

Nov, 23

The Great Ziegfeld **** (1936, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer) – Classic Movie Review 2026

  Director Robert Z Leonard’s triple-Oscar-winning 1936 MGM musical biopic is an incredibly lavish, spectacular and profitable biography of the great Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, famous as the showman producer of the most extravagant stage revues of […]

Dec, 31

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