A compilation of musical numbers built around a thin narrative. Showcasing MGM's array of talent during WWII, including a comedic turn by Frank Morgan.A compilation of musical numbers built around a thin narrative. Showcasing MGM's array of talent during WWII, including a comedic turn by Frank Morgan.A compilation of musical numbers built around a thin narrative. Showcasing MGM's array of talent during WWII, including a comedic turn by Frank Morgan.
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Carlos Ramírez
- Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces'
- (archive footage)
Lucille Norman
- Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces'
- (archive footage)
Eleanor Powell
- Film Character
- (archive footage)
Virginia O'Brien
- Film Character
- (archive footage)
The King Sisters
- The King Sisters
- (archive footage)
Jacqueline White
- Mother in 'Our Old Car'
- (archive footage)
Ben Blue
- Bellamy B. Birdbrain in Badminton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Rand Brooks
- Film Character
- (uncredited)
George Chandler
- Roger the Valet
- (uncredited)
Inez Cooper
- Film Character
- (uncredited)
Ken Davidson
- Actor in Badminton
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Tommy Dorsey
- Tommy Dorsey
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Cedric Gibbons
- Cedric Gibbons
- (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
- Film Character
- (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
- Studio Executive
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMovie was intended for export only, was presumed lost, but a print appeared in 1980. It was never released theatrically in the U.S. and was never submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office.
- Quotes
Frank Morgan: After all, a man's got to think of his future. Don't forget the years are piling up on me. I'm around 30... well, second time around.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Race to Save 100 Years (1997)
- SoundtracksFlight of the Bumble Bee
(uncredited)
Written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by the MGM Studio Orchestra
Sequence originally in MGM short subject Musical Masterpieces (1946).
Featured review
An entertaining diversion
Frank Morgan, the professional bumbler, decides he's not getting the respect (and money) he deserves at "the studio," so he calls studio boss "KF" -- Leon Ames -- and demands the job of producing a picture. His proposition is, surprisingly, accepted, and after weeks of Morgan's confused shooting, and going ever farther behind schedule and over budget, KF demands to see the result. Disgusted with the professional editor's inability to make any sense from the available footage, Morgan fires him and cuts and splices the film himself -- after, predictably, dumping the contents of the film storage shelves on the cutting room floor.
In the projection room, the resulting product, of course, turns out to be a disaster. (Everything about this movie and the film-within-the-film is predictable, but who cares?) Interspersed with a bit of inane "original footage" -- some of it, naturally, upside down -- Frank has picked up pieces of other MGM productions, which are presented complete and straight: A "Donkey Serenade" (not Allan Jones'}; a neat Elinor Powell dance sequence; songs by Virginia O'Brien with an unbilled Tommy Dorsey and Band, and by the King Sisters; and two MGM shorts complete with title, credit, and "The End" cards -- the familiar John Nesbitt Passing Parade "Our Old Car," and a "new" (to me and IMDb) Pete Smith Specialty on professional "Badminton," that's worth the price of admission.
A very entertaining little movie, especially if you like Morgan and the films of the '40s. I do.
In the projection room, the resulting product, of course, turns out to be a disaster. (Everything about this movie and the film-within-the-film is predictable, but who cares?) Interspersed with a bit of inane "original footage" -- some of it, naturally, upside down -- Frank has picked up pieces of other MGM productions, which are presented complete and straight: A "Donkey Serenade" (not Allan Jones'}; a neat Elinor Powell dance sequence; songs by Virginia O'Brien with an unbilled Tommy Dorsey and Band, and by the King Sisters; and two MGM shorts complete with title, credit, and "The End" cards -- the familiar John Nesbitt Passing Parade "Our Old Car," and a "new" (to me and IMDb) Pete Smith Specialty on professional "Badminton," that's worth the price of admission.
A very entertaining little movie, especially if you like Morgan and the films of the '40s. I do.
Details
- Runtime57 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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