Thousands Cheer [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Kathryn Grayson Gene Kelly Mary Astor John Boles Ben Blue
	Video by:	MGM (Video & DVD)
	Sales Rank:	168339

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Actor(s):
Kathryn Grayson
Gene Kelly
Mary Astor
John Boles
Ben Blue

Creators:
George J. Folsey (Cinematographer)
George Boemler (Editor)
Joe Pasternak (Producer)
Paul Jarrico (Writer)
Richard Collins (Writer)

Director(s):
George Sidney

Recording label: MGM (Video & DVD)
EAN: 9786301975971
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6301975979
Format: Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1992-04-01
Universal product code (UPC): 027616098436
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

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The second half of this 1943 Technicolor musical is an excuse for MGM's contract talent to perform songs and sketches in a big show at an Army base. Unfortunately, more than an hour passes before the show arrives, stranding the viewer with a thin service comedy about an opera singer (Kathryn Grayson) tagging along to a military camp in hopes of reuniting her estranged parents, whose names are Bill and Hillary (no comments, please). Romance comes in the form of private Gene Kelly, a former trapeze artist who misses the glory of his former life. Grayson warbles, and Kelly has one nifty solo dance (with a mop and broom), but the all-star revue is the movie's main attraction. The song selection is generally poor ("I Dug a Ditch in Wichita" is performed twice), with Lena Horne's sultry take on "Honeysuckle Rose" an exception. She's backed by Benny Carter and His Orchestra. Specialty player Virginia O'Brien delights with one of her deadpan numbers, Eleanor Powell tap dances, and Judy Garland delivers with a boogie-woogie lilt on "Jumpin' Down at Carnegie Hall." Comedy sketches with Red Skelton and Frank Morgan are stubbornly unfunny. Then there's José Iturbi, the Spanish-born conductor, making his film debut at the beginning of his run as MGM's supposedly cute highbrow. Director George Sidney would team up two years later with Iturbi, Kelly, and Grayson in Anchors Aweigh, a much more enjoyable musical confection. --Robert Horton

Running time: 125 minutes