I love this clip because it shows Judy as being desired and desirable. She was quite beautiful and sexy. So many times MGM downplayed her beauty and gave her the "plain Jane" role of the buddy or best friend, very seldom the love interest. It started when they hired her at 13. They didn't know what to do with her; she wasn't a tyke, and she wasn't (yet) a glamor girl. But, they knew her voice was extraordinary! These erroneous perceptions of her appearance were openly discussed by the studio. Some of them even found their way into scripts. This does damage to a person in her formative years. They gave her a complex which she carried her whole life. It bothers me that this very gifted woman doubted her own beauty, while most of the public thought her gorgeous. She may never have found the personal love she craved, but I hope she knew how much the public loved her. ❤️
She was wonderful. She had class, glamour, elegance, a voice and style that can't be copied or compared. A sweetness and innocence lost today and probably forever. Thank God we have this on film.
That voice! Those eyes! That triple talent!! Girl Crazy certainly gave us a JUDY vocal treat. Her youth, exuberance on full display. An honor that musical director Charles Walters danced w/her . All time favorite film❤️
I see comments below about wishing we could be in a time machine to go back to this time...could you imagine working on the MGM lot and seeing our Judy in live time performing and filming her great films? Heck even to go back to her concerts like Carnegie Hall. I was 9 when Judy passed away.....definitely born in the wrong generation!
@Gregory Fall Edens could not dance a step. That partner is Chuck Walters, who was to Garland, hoofing-wise, what Edens was as a musical tutor: kind, patient, an unthreatening homosexual Friend of Dorothy. Neither man ever let Judy down during her increasingly fraught time at MGM and after. The choreography here makes the boys and the piano take most of the strain. Garland could pick up a routine fast but lacked the skill or discipline to become as proficient a mover as Ginger. Limbering up for 30-60 minutes every morning, or doing 10-20 takes, was never her bag. Walters was a protective buffer between her and the director: the increasingly abusive mean drunk, Busby Berkeley. Buzz had grown to resent Judy blossoming as an actress-singer; he was Svengali trying to bring Trilby to heel, but his bullying ways on the "Girl Crazy' set damaged his career more than hers.
I wish Judy and Chuck Walters could have made a whole film together. I love his dancing and singing. I’m so grateful we also have them together in “Broadway Rhythm” from Presenting Lily Mars-it’s perfection and priceless. Also happy Walters was her director in Easter Parade and Summer Stock. ❤️🙏
He is building in the smooth close harmonies that big bands adopted for their singers in the wake of the glorious example of the Boswell Sisters, with little scattish syncopated interpolations to prevent it sounding too slick. This chimes with the choreography of gliding and wheeling mass movements accompanied by the camera's long tracks and pans- formation precision dancing broken up by little bursts of tap. The star is never upstaged but enhanced by her escorts. By now MGM's team of talents was functioning almost telepathically to create numbers in which every element gelled: so succinct, so satisfying a finished whole, small Faberge gems.
Her voice was so authentic. She didn't need to go to a voice teacher to sing. It was already in her. Why she never won an Oscar is beyond me. I look at people today winning that top prize and think to my self "seriously"? That voice at any age could cure the covid 19 virus!
@@edmundpower1250 Judy Garland was one of twelve youth who were awarded Juvenile Oscars in the history of the Academy. She got it for “The Wizard of Oz” and other films she did in 1939. Some of the other youth included Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney and Margaret O’Brian.
The legendary, adorable and very pretty and extremely talented singer, actress, comedian, dancer, entertainer, performer and person Judy Garland sings this song perfectly! Judy Garland is dancing with the very handsome and very talented singer, choreographer, dancer and director Charles Walters and many other very handsome actors, singers, and dancers! Thank you for posting and sharing this classic performance!
I did not realize how busy Judy's career was during the middle of World War II and on the heels of the Great Depression. It's amazing that Americans had time and money to go to movie theatres to see her films.
@dormantone That marriage sadly never had a chance. She married him after Artie Shaw (whom she had a mostly unrequited attraction toward) eloped with Lana Turner. Her mother derisively referred to Rose as "the old man" (he was 30). She became pregnant and her mother (who tried to get an abortion herself when she was pregnant with Judy) forced her to get an abortion. She never really forgave her for that and years later when she was pregnant with Liza Minnelli she announced to her mother, "I'm going to have a baby" and after a very long pause added, "Do you mind?"
I would have given anything to see and hear Judy sing and dance either on that set of MGM's remake of "Girl Crazy" or to hear her perform this classic Gershwin tune in concert.
THERE NEVER HAS BEEN AND THERE WILL NEVER BE A STAR MORE TALENTED THAN JUDY GARLAND, "IRREPLACEABLE" IF THERE'S A HEAVEN I PRAY SHE'S THERE.....WE LOVE YOU JUDY RIP AND GODSPEED!
Dozens of boys would storm up I had to lock my door Somehow I wouldn’t warm up To one before What was it that controlled me What kept my love life lean My intuition told me You'd come on the scene If you listen to the rhythm of my heartbeat You will get just what I mean Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you Embrace me, you irreplaceable you Just one look at you my heart grew tipsy in me You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me I love all the many charms about you Above all I want my arms about Don't be a naughty papa, Come to baby come to baby do My sweet embraceable you
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you Embrace me, my irreplaceable you In your arms, I find love so delectable dear I’m afraid, it isn’t quite respectable dear
Choreography by Charles Walters who is her featured dance partner here, and her lifelong friend. Walters went on to become one of MGM's top directors (Good News, Easter Parade, High Society, Molly Brown).
It's wonderful to see her so happy, so beautiful and so sure of herself in this sequence. She was a light in the darkness of manipulative people all around her, shining in every demanding circumstance. You hope that she had great times on her own terms while she was being worked so hard. Seeing her later with Jack Paar on his nightly TV show and with Dick Cavett was proof that she was much better than the bums in her life. The biggest ogre in that bunch: Louis B. Mayer of MGM.
@@123boink That sad ending makes this sequence more memorable. She is someone to be admired for her enormous gift and for overcoming the obstacles of greedy and lecherous men.
@@hilaryapril7043 so true! Just look at poor Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Dolly Parton... Oh, the list goes on and on 😱🤔😢💔
Most important, the composer George Gershwin. Love the all-male chorus backing up Judy Garland, too A Bing Crosby quote, “the singer is only as good as the composer.”
This song is the first me & my future husband danced to @ a special venue that the band played. It was magical to see the George Washington Bridge lit up like a diamond necklace. It became Our Song & listening to it touches My Heart. But we aren't married no more.💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭
In this wonderful number choreographer Charles Walters is Judy's dance partner. Future famous L.A. sportscaster Gil Stratton sings directly to her. Also in the vocal groups who appear in other scenes look for Jo Stafford (Stafford Sisters) and Dick Haymes (Pied Pipers).
Judy in this clip displays how incredibly multitalented she was. But the one talent that made me smile the most here is, she knew how to make an exit. The eyes, the hands, the half fake head toss, et al. All in a natural, perfectly balanced way that one in a million might be able to pull off. No, she was the Real Deal.🎉
encima...............dio a luz...................a otro genio del arte..........................increible.....................arte en los genes.............
2:38 I love how attentive Judy is of the guys moving her around on the piano, she has this habit of lingering her eyes on whoever she’s interacting with onscreen, its seems very authentic, in my opinion is not just acting, Judy was just a lovely person. This also happens in other performances such as “a great lady has an interview” from ziegfeld follies and “on the atchison, topeka and the santa fe” (the harvey girls)
One of the co-singers was Gil Stratton, who became more famously known as an LA-area sports broadcaster. He had a nightly gig as an anchor for decades and also called the LA Rams games as well as MLB games and other sports. He'd also been an ump in the PCL, a hockey goalie in college, and helped Keith Olbermann start his sports broadcasting career. He also raised money for a hospital and they named the birthing wing after him. Quite the Renaissance man.
Loved love this song by Judy ! She was the best singer out there ! She was my favorite singer ! Now I like Liza and Lorna among some others all types of music !
Thank you for the wonderful stereo version of the classic by Judy. Well I'll tell you what...as a dancer myself loving music and singing not so bad what's more whistling artistically... yes no jokes... sorry... Who cares... of course its all about Judy here.. So coming back to the point... According to me this is Judy's peak dance routine.. absolute marvelous class, style, charm and joy in it... In 1968 Judy said that there were two men she always admired... Mickey and Mr. Mayer. This is not difficult to answer the question; Why ?
Broadway Classixs I remember in one of her later interviews with Jack Parr (I think) she mentions she liked Mr. Mayer and he was a talented motion picture maker. I kind of find hard to believe given all the rumors that circulate about him, but I’ve also heard that he paid some of Judy Garland’s medical bills and stints rehab.
Judy hated Louie B. Mayer.. Mickey on the other hand, she and Mickey where always and still are best buddies. I'm sure they're entertaining God and the Angels as we speak. But, she truly hated Mayer, he molested her and several other young ones at Metro. She threatened Him about molesting the younger ones, and if she found he was still doing it, she was going to go to the press with the whole story. She did truly hate him..
Judy was coming out of her first phase as an eager teen with an unsettlingly mature voice, going dewy-eyed over Mickey Rooney. She was growing up if not growing taller; a quick study and hard worker when not distracted by the need to get out from under Ma Gumm's or Busby Berkeley's despotism. She promised to become a triple threat rivaling Ginger Rogers. Metro needed such a one to keep up its momentum in musicals, which were more popular than ever in wartime. Fox was burning up the box office with Sonja Henie, Alice Faye and Betty Grable. Columbia had Rita Hayworth. But MGM's queen of dance, Eleanor Powell, was retiring and its top thrush, Jeanette Macdonald, was aging. There was a glaring hole at the studio which boasted it had more stars than in Heaven. Judy had first got noticed in a Powell vehicle. Roger Edens, a Powell collaborator, had backed Judy as a potential replacement and was Garland's most trusted musical mentor. One can see in this sequence similarities- a girl squired by a host of admirers- but Judy lacked Ellie's masterly air and technical perfection in hoofdom. Charles Walters, Judy's choreographer and partner, adapts accordingly: the boys are supportive, not awestruck, the music smooth instead of jaggedly syncopated to fit the ballroom moves instead of tap. A long gown hides any flaws of footwork; Walters gives himself the fancier port-de-bras moments while Judy holds her costume up. She and the camera glide laterally and gracefully. It is an elegant number, prevented from insipidity by the faintly neurotic edge Judy could never keep out of her vocals even in carefree numbers, and it points promisingly forward. This is more than an ugly (not really, more half-formed) duckling growing into a polished young woman; and is it accidental that the guy she finally goes off with looks like a mature Mickey Rooney?
Hollywood will never be the same. I know the Actresses suffered a whole lot working there. Couldn't have a healthy meal! Judy paid her dues. Hollywood is just down the tubes these days.
I agree with Angela..the way that Mayer and his staff..including that drunken and bullying idiot Berkeley treated her was..to say the least..disgraceful.
After the Feature FILM in TECHNICOLOR: of "THE WIZARD OF OZ" this just has to be my MOST FAVORED JUDY GARLAND MOVIE CLIP from the GLORIOUS BLACK AND WHITE YEARS. This sequence is heard here in STEREO, could the Poster on "Broadway Classixs" Channel here: Please let me know if the Stereo is of "Broadway Classixs" design, or has the STEREO Version come from the MGM VAULTS ? When STEREO SOUND was initially considered for the Cinema, MGM had a faux-type-of-stereo that MGM put in MGM theaters Worldwide from 1954 onward and called it PerSPectA Sound. But the Movie here was Produced in the year 1943, which was prior to the introduction of PerSPectA Sound. For those among us, who would like to know from "what Feature FILM" this sequence is taken from, it can be obtained in a Boxed Set of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney Movies, the Feature Film itself is titled "GIRL CRAZY". I just never tire of watching this above sequence Over and Over again. If you viewers here on TH-cam would like to see another Musical clip from "GIRL CRAZY" before you buy the BOXED SET ( like I did, after I had seen Judy sing "EMBRACEABLE YOU" here in TH-cam for the Ump-Teenth Time ) there has been a posting of the Song: "BUT NOT FOR ME" Sung by Judy Garland here on TH-cam and is also from the FILM "GIRL CRAZY" so I am hoping you will "still" be able to find it and see it here in "TH-cam", I tend to have tears in my eyes when watching that particular number, as it too is an endearing Judy Garland ballad, with Judy's delightful delivery... So Enjoy Folks, Enjoy...
Almost all MGM songs were recorded in multichannel sound but mixed to mono for the film soundtrack. Luckily, many of those multiple stems survive and can be remixed to true stereo.
She gradually turned into a tribute act to herself after 'Summer Stock', tending if inadvertently to pander to the worst Maenad-like instincts of her more morbid fans. They projected neurosis and self-pity on to her, and it was replenished by fresh, frequent crises in her overexposed private life. She became professionally lazy, failing to overhaul her repertoire and often flaking. 'A Star is Born' was a disaster as much as a triumph, bc it set the Legend of Judy in stone, exculpating her errors of judgment and indiscipline by projecting them on to an imaginary character. In reality there was no Norman Maine, but her idolators conjured up a flock of people who were bad for her, led by Momma Gumm and Louis B Mayer. It is a pity that Judy became the original Star As Victim, bc on her better days she could still rise above psychodramatics and give a blazing performance. She was funny and courageous. But truth to tell, she did little worth notice after 1961 except recycling.
This is so nice and charming. Lovely to look at! ❤️ JUDY and the old Hollywood style! Nothing can compare to this. A question to the Uploader Broadway Classixs: All these Stereo Versions of Judy's songs you present... we're all songs from the late 30ies recorded simultaneously in Mono and Stereo? I'd really like to get more information about this 🙂 Thanks in advance.
Many musicals were recorded in multichannel sound, beginning in the mid-30s. Those tracks were then mixed down to mono for the final film. Some of these "stems" have survived and have been remixed to true stereo. My clips marry the stereo tracks to the film for the first time ever.
Her dance partner was in more than one film with her and he dances beautifully with her but she hated her . He was her dance tutor. She called him " the man with the bullwhip". He was a bully . I wish they loved her as she deserved. She would be 102 now, had she lived . Such a tragedy how they destroyed that beautiful and exceptional young lady. Rest in serene peace, Miss Garland . XxxxX
He’s also the one who does the big dance number with her at the end of “Presenting Lilly Mars”, which is magnificent. I never hear much said about that movie, but I think it is just wonderful! Is it considered one of her great performances?
That dress was breathtaking, as was Judy Garland.
Hello Claudia, How are you doing?
Haha I had the same thought
I wonder what color the dress was…🤔
That dress is air. Lmao I love Judy to death but a real woman can't wear - 0 size dress 😂
It is a naked dress too.
imagine being that beautiful and talented i love her sm
I just joined y’all club!❤️🔥
Just stunning
Beautiful and different. She stood out
I love this clip because it shows Judy as being desired and desirable. She was quite beautiful and sexy.
So many times MGM downplayed her beauty and gave her the "plain Jane" role of the buddy or best friend, very seldom the love interest.
It started when they hired her at 13. They didn't know what to do with her; she wasn't a tyke, and she wasn't (yet) a glamor girl. But, they knew her voice was extraordinary!
These erroneous perceptions of her appearance were openly discussed by the studio. Some of them even found their way into scripts.
This does damage to a person in her formative years. They gave her a complex which she carried her whole life.
It bothers me that this very gifted woman doubted her own beauty, while most of the public thought her gorgeous.
She may never have found the personal love she craved, but I hope she knew how much the public loved her. ❤️
I don’t think there will ever be anyone to compete with Judy’s talent
Dont be so sure
john jack don’t be sure? this girl was a triple threat with singing acting and dancing. Nobody else can’t compete .
She was wonderful. She had class, glamour, elegance, a voice and style that can't be copied or compared. A sweetness and innocence lost today and probably forever. Thank God we have this on film.
Hundredth birthday on June 10. She'd die later this month at 47. 😢
@@giovannisimon8122every broadway star is a triple threat, judy garland is amazing but being a triple threat isn’t unheard of.
That voice! Those eyes! That triple talent!! Girl Crazy certainly gave us a JUDY vocal treat. Her youth, exuberance on full display. An honor that musical director Charles Walters danced w/her . All time favorite film❤️
you are so right about those eyes . . . when she is behind the piano. makes my heart hurt
If anyone defines Classic Hollywood, it’s Judy Garland. A star amongst stars.
More than 50 years after her demise and still unforgettable!
I see comments below about wishing we could be in a time machine to go back to this time...could you imagine working on the MGM lot and seeing our Judy in live time performing and filming her great films? Heck even to go back to her concerts like Carnegie Hall. I was 9 when Judy passed away.....definitely born in the wrong generation!
Judy at perhaps her prettiest. Mind blowing talent. Makes it look so easy. God bless her...........and I know He does!!!!!!
Ginny Lorenz Yes!
In the first minute of this song, with her face in a closeup she is incredibly beautiful -- I am tempted to compare her with Marilyn Monroe.
She is a great EVERYTHING here, singer ,dancer, actor, comedienne, beauty, model, et al. Just perfection.
Judy’s so freakin GORGEOUS!! Time machine please! 😭
Tell me about it maybe someone could help her then
Me too your not alone im a die hard fan of Judy too💝🌈
That “you” at 1:58 is so full and rich. Only Judy ❤
she croons it like Crosby wished he could.
One of the most beautiful voices of all the times
Incorrect!!! THE most beautiful voice of all time!!!
Not just a great voice but a beautiful dancer as well!
@Gregory Fall Chuck Walters in his book wrote Judy wasn't a natural dancer but as we saw on screen, was able to perform.
@Gregory Fall Edens was the music director. He did help hone Judy's craft when she first joined the studio.
@Gregory Fall Edens could not dance a step. That partner is Chuck Walters, who was to Garland, hoofing-wise, what Edens was as a musical tutor: kind, patient, an unthreatening homosexual Friend of Dorothy. Neither man ever let Judy down during her increasingly fraught time at MGM and after.
The choreography here makes the boys and the piano take most of the strain. Garland could pick up a routine fast but lacked the skill or discipline to become as proficient a mover as Ginger. Limbering up for 30-60 minutes every morning, or doing 10-20 takes, was never her bag.
Walters was a protective buffer between her and the director: the increasingly abusive mean drunk, Busby Berkeley. Buzz had grown to resent Judy blossoming as an actress-singer; he was Svengali trying to bring Trilby to heel, but his bullying ways on the "Girl Crazy' set damaged his career more than hers.
She is a wonderful dancer.
I wish Judy and Chuck Walters could have made a whole film together. I love his dancing and singing. I’m so grateful we also have them together in “Broadway Rhythm” from Presenting Lily Mars-it’s perfection and priceless. Also happy Walters was her director in Easter Parade and Summer Stock. ❤️🙏
Conrad Salinger was the best arranger EVER
He is building in the smooth close harmonies that big bands adopted for their singers in the wake of the glorious example of the Boswell Sisters, with little scattish syncopated interpolations to prevent it sounding too slick.
This chimes with the choreography of gliding and wheeling mass movements accompanied by the camera's long tracks and pans- formation precision dancing broken up by little bursts of tap. The star is never upstaged but enhanced by her escorts.
By now MGM's team of talents was functioning almost telepathically to create numbers in which every element gelled: so succinct, so satisfying a finished whole, small Faberge gems.
Yes, he was a genius.
What a voice Judy had. I wish we were back in those days. The 21st century is a mess. ----------------MJL, 75 y/o
Her voice was so authentic. She didn't need to go to a voice teacher to sing. It was already in her. Why she never won an Oscar is beyond me. I look at people today winning that top prize and think to my self "seriously"? That voice at any age could cure the covid 19 virus!
But she did win an "Oscar"!! (1940)
@@Susan10093 wow didn't know she got one tha made my day a I'm a massive fan😊👍
@@edmundpower1250 Judy Garland was one of twelve youth who were awarded Juvenile Oscars in the history of the Academy. She got it for “The Wizard of Oz” and other films she did in 1939. Some of the other youth included Shirley Temple, Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney and Margaret O’Brian.
@@Susan10093 did she ever win the main one?
@@edmundpower1250 From what I've read she should have won a best actress Oscar for her 1954 film "A Star is Born", but she lost out to Grace Kelly.
Not from her generation not even close but greatest voice I ever heard
The legendary, adorable and very pretty and extremely talented singer, actress, comedian, dancer, entertainer, performer and person Judy Garland sings this song perfectly! Judy Garland is dancing with the very handsome and very talented singer, choreographer, dancer and director Charles Walters and many other very handsome actors, singers, and dancers! Thank you for posting and sharing this classic performance!
Sigh. Judy is just such a pure delight.
I could listen to her all day long!!
Judy is spook beautiful here.
Absolutely amazing. I've loved her since I was a little girl watching her old movies with Mickey Rooney.
I think I came out of the womb loving Judy haha 😆 💖 Shirley Temple as well!
No solo su voz sino su memoria y su capacidad para el show business, su holgura, una Star en toda su naturaleza
Her dress is fabulous
❤🎉😊🎉 beautiful & stunning...a perfect set up....Judy & all those handsome men....
Best version of this song I've heard! And my personal favorite by dear Miss Garland.
The vocal arrangement by Hugh Martin is so good that I wrote him a fan letter about it!
Outstanding historical Hollywood archive ever rendering number. Merci beaucoup from Paris France 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍.
Happy 100th Birthday, dear Judy! 🎶🎂🎉❤️🌈
She embraced magic. What an amazing talent. Sad she had such a difficult life and was gone too soon. 😞
It was a tragedy she died so young.
Nice dress she really looks amazing here.
She was a mere 21 yrs old here. Exactly 20 yrs later she was still singing at her peak on TJGS in 63.
The beautiful Judy Garland did play piano but only in private for herself she once said.
She was phantastic! The best of all!
She could do everything!
Wow - Thanks for sharing that information
Was Judy actually playing the piano here?
Feeling nostalgic about a time I wasn't even born. To say nothing of a place so far away ...
This is one of my all time favourite love songs..............
I did not realize how busy Judy's career was during the middle of World War II and on the heels of the Great Depression. It's amazing that Americans had time and money to go to movie theatres to see her films.
It's sad the way she was overworked and tyrannized by the studio and her awful monster of a mother.
@dormantone That marriage sadly never had a chance. She married him after Artie Shaw (whom she had a mostly unrequited attraction toward) eloped with Lana Turner. Her mother derisively referred to Rose as "the old man" (he was 30). She became pregnant and her mother (who tried to get an abortion herself when she was pregnant with Judy) forced her to get an abortion. She never really forgave her for that and years later when she was pregnant with Liza Minnelli she announced to her mother, "I'm going to have a baby" and after a very long pause added, "Do you mind?"
I prefer to call Judy's Mom..Mrs.Gumm and that idiot of a studio exec Louis Mayer..Bullies.
Gregory Fall Judy’s mother did NOT commit suicide.
@@steve3131 And apparently her husband!
She has those incredible rich tones like the ones I hear from the voice of Cinderella.
I would have given anything to see and hear Judy sing and dance either on that set of MGM's remake of "Girl Crazy" or to hear her perform this classic Gershwin tune in concert.
Absolutely magical!! 🌹🌹🎼🎼🎵🎵
Im always smiling when i see this
I will never understand how so many people thought Judy Garland was anything other than completely gorgeous
THERE NEVER HAS BEEN AND THERE WILL NEVER BE A STAR MORE TALENTED THAN JUDY GARLAND, "IRREPLACEABLE" IF THERE'S A HEAVEN I PRAY SHE'S THERE.....WE LOVE YOU JUDY RIP AND GODSPEED!
She’s so beautiful 😍😍😍
Breathtaking.
Mesmerizing! Miss the good ol' days
Dozens of boys would storm up
I had to lock my door
Somehow I wouldn’t warm up
To one before
What was it that controlled me
What kept my love life lean
My intuition told me
You'd come on the scene
If you listen to the rhythm of my heartbeat
You will get just what I mean
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you
Embrace me, you irreplaceable you
Just one look at you my heart grew tipsy in me
You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me
I love all the many charms about you
Above all I want my arms about
Don't be a naughty papa,
Come to baby come to baby do
My sweet embraceable you
Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you
Embrace me, my irreplaceable you
In your arms, I find love so delectable dear
I’m afraid, it isn’t quite respectable dear
This is the best scene I’ve ever seen.
Classic Timeless Phenomenal , The one and only Judy Garland ✨✨✨
The grace and the soul ❤🎀⚘⚘🌹🌹⚘⚘⚘⚘💋
Choreography by Charles Walters who is her featured dance partner here, and her lifelong friend. Walters went on to become one of MGM's top directors (Good News, Easter Parade, High Society, Molly Brown).
Love Judy Garland and this lovely Gershon tune. The very best.
That dress though! I love Judy!
I always enjoy listening to Judy.
She sang her heart out.
SHEER CLASS
Beautiful George Gershon song sung by the best singer ever Judy Garland.
Listening to (and watching) her can be so healing.
It's wonderful to see her so happy, so beautiful and so sure of herself in this sequence. She was a light in the darkness of manipulative people all around her, shining in every demanding circumstance. You hope that she had great times on her own terms while she was being worked so hard. Seeing her later with Jack Paar on his nightly TV show and with Dick Cavett was proof that she was much better than the bums in her life. The biggest ogre in that bunch: Louis B. Mayer of MGM.
Can't we just focus on her brilliance without constantly bringing up her challenges?
@@123boink That sad ending makes this sequence more memorable. She is someone to be admired for her enormous gift and for overcoming the obstacles of greedy and lecherous men.
To b'way classics it is important women are still abused in the entertainment industry by those in power!!
@@hilaryapril7043 so true! Just look at poor Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Dolly Parton... Oh, the list goes on and on 😱🤔😢💔
And yet MANY women, and stage parents are ready to look the other way in order to "make it" in Hollywood.
Love this. Great sound.
She could do it all!
Época maravilhosa, musicalmente falando! Lindo!!!!!!!!
She sure outgrew the Dorothy look by the time she did Girl Crazy. What a cutie!
Most important, the composer George Gershwin. Love the all-male chorus backing up Judy Garland, too
A Bing Crosby quote, “the singer is only as good as the composer.”
This song is the first me & my future husband danced to @ a special venue that the band played. It was magical to see the George Washington Bridge lit up like a diamond necklace. It became Our Song & listening to it touches My Heart. But we aren't married no more.💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭
May look corny today, but it's a delight to watch and listen too. A feel good factor included.
Us old timers know Real talent!
Anyone with that blue rag in their profile has no idea what is “corny”. And this is the last thing it is.
Corny? Looks like talent that modern vacuous people cannot match, at least to my eyes.
It doesn’t look corny
One of my favorite of HER! THIS BRING BACK SO MEMORIES OF "JUST HER AND I" ALONE, ME WATCHING HER ON TV! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! 🤩!
What a voice and overall talent.
ahhh! I love her! SHE'S AWESOME! :)
In this wonderful number choreographer Charles Walters is Judy's dance partner. Future famous L.A. sportscaster Gil Stratton sings directly to her. Also in the vocal groups who appear in other scenes look for Jo Stafford (Stafford Sisters) and Dick Haymes (Pied Pipers).
Judy in this clip displays how incredibly multitalented she was.
But the one talent that made me smile the most here is, she knew how to make an exit. The eyes, the hands, the half fake head toss, et al. All in a natural, perfectly balanced way that one in a million might be able to pull off. No, she was the Real Deal.🎉
encima...............dio a luz...................a otro genio del arte..........................increible.....................arte en los genes.............
un verdadero ...monstruo.del espectaculo....en todos los sentidos...................
Wonderful! Thanks for posting!
2:38 I love how attentive Judy is of the guys moving her around on the piano, she has this habit of lingering her eyes on whoever she’s interacting with onscreen, its seems very authentic, in my opinion is not just acting, Judy was just a lovely person. This also happens in other performances such as “a great lady has an interview” from ziegfeld follies and “on the atchison, topeka and the santa fe” (the harvey girls)
One of the co-singers was Gil Stratton, who became more famously known as an LA-area sports broadcaster. He had a nightly gig as an anchor for decades and also called the LA Rams games as well as MLB games and other sports. He'd also been an ump in the PCL, a hockey goalie in college, and helped Keith Olbermann start his sports broadcasting career. He also raised money for a hospital and they named the birthing wing after him. Quite the Renaissance man.
Helped Olbermann get started? Ah, what the hell. I forgive him.
Thanks for all this background info on Mr. Stratton.
Somebody embrace her :(
An Angel, who didn’t know it then, and exists on on a higher level now....
Judy…💃💖
That's beautiful！
Admittedly I watch this daily
Excelente cantante bailarina actriz muy bella
Loved love this song by Judy ! She was the best singer out there ! She was my favorite singer ! Now I like Liza and Lorna among some others all types of music !
Maravilhosa!!!
Any one who told her that she was not pretty was a big fat liar...she was gorgeous
just a bunch of old greedy men trying to control her because they knew she was too powerful
I know it's corny but they just don't come out with stuff this good any more. A true classic.
Thank you for the wonderful stereo version of the classic by Judy. Well I'll tell you what...as a dancer myself loving music and singing not so bad what's more whistling artistically... yes no jokes... sorry... Who cares... of course its all about Judy here..
So coming back to the point... According to me this is Judy's peak dance routine.. absolute marvelous class, style, charm and joy in it... In 1968 Judy said that there were two men she always admired... Mickey and Mr. Mayer. This is not difficult to answer the question; Why ?
You really have a quote of her saying she admired Mayer? Can't you tell us where? I find that hard to believe.
Broadway Classixs I remember in one of her later interviews with Jack Parr (I think) she mentions she liked Mr. Mayer and he was a talented motion picture maker. I kind of find hard to believe given all the rumors that circulate about him, but I’ve also heard that he paid some of Judy Garland’s medical bills and stints rehab.
Judy hated Louie B. Mayer.. Mickey on the other hand, she and Mickey where always and still are best buddies. I'm sure they're entertaining God and the Angels as we speak. But, she truly hated Mayer, he molested her and several other young ones at Metro. She threatened Him about molesting the younger ones, and if she found he was still doing it, she was going to go to the press with the whole story. She did truly hate him..
Judy was coming out of her first phase as an eager teen with an unsettlingly mature voice, going dewy-eyed over Mickey Rooney. She was growing up if not growing taller; a quick study and hard worker when not distracted by the need to get out from under Ma Gumm's or Busby Berkeley's despotism. She promised to become a triple threat rivaling Ginger Rogers.
Metro needed such a one to keep up its momentum in musicals, which were more popular than ever in wartime. Fox was burning up the box office with Sonja Henie, Alice Faye and Betty Grable. Columbia had Rita Hayworth. But MGM's queen of dance, Eleanor Powell, was retiring and its top thrush, Jeanette Macdonald, was aging. There was a glaring hole at the studio which boasted it had more stars
than in Heaven.
Judy had first got noticed in a Powell vehicle. Roger Edens, a Powell collaborator, had backed Judy as a potential replacement and was Garland's most trusted musical mentor. One can see in this sequence similarities- a girl squired by a host of admirers- but Judy lacked Ellie's masterly air and technical perfection in hoofdom. Charles Walters, Judy's choreographer and partner, adapts accordingly: the boys are supportive, not awestruck, the music smooth instead of jaggedly syncopated to fit the ballroom moves instead of tap. A long gown hides any flaws of footwork; Walters gives himself the fancier port-de-bras moments while Judy holds her costume up.
She and the camera glide laterally and gracefully. It is an elegant number, prevented from insipidity by the faintly neurotic edge Judy could never keep out of her vocals even in carefree numbers, and it points promisingly forward. This is more than an ugly (not really, more half-formed) duckling growing into a polished young woman; and is it accidental that the guy she finally goes off with looks like a mature Mickey Rooney?
LOVE THIS! HER "EASTER PARADE" DIRECTOR IS ONE OF HER CHORUS BOYZ! CHARLES WATERS! 😛
Walters.
Hollywood will never be the same. I know the Actresses suffered a whole lot working there. Couldn't have a healthy meal! Judy paid her dues. Hollywood is just down the tubes these days.
I can't stop staring at that 'suggestive' dress.
It blows my mind Louie B Mayor & Studio Heads thought she was fat & homely. That is crazy. She is lovely.
I agree with Angela..the way that Mayer and his staff..including that drunken and bullying idiot Berkeley treated her was..to say the least..disgraceful.
After the Feature FILM in TECHNICOLOR: of "THE WIZARD OF OZ" this just has to be my MOST FAVORED JUDY GARLAND MOVIE CLIP from the GLORIOUS BLACK AND WHITE YEARS. This sequence is heard here in STEREO, could the Poster on "Broadway Classixs" Channel here: Please let me know if the Stereo is of "Broadway Classixs" design, or has the STEREO Version come from the MGM VAULTS ? When STEREO SOUND was initially considered for the Cinema, MGM had a faux-type-of-stereo that MGM put in MGM theaters Worldwide from 1954 onward and called it PerSPectA Sound. But the Movie here was Produced in the year 1943, which was prior to the introduction of PerSPectA Sound.
For those among us, who would like to know from "what Feature FILM" this sequence is taken from, it can be obtained in a Boxed Set of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney Movies, the Feature Film itself is titled "GIRL CRAZY".
I just never tire of watching this above sequence Over and Over again. If you viewers here on TH-cam would like to see another Musical clip from "GIRL CRAZY" before you buy the BOXED SET ( like I did, after I had seen Judy sing "EMBRACEABLE YOU" here in TH-cam for the Ump-Teenth Time ) there has been a posting of the Song: "BUT NOT FOR ME" Sung by Judy Garland here on TH-cam and is also from the FILM "GIRL CRAZY" so I am hoping you will "still" be able to find it and see it here in "TH-cam", I tend to have tears in my eyes when watching that particular number, as it too is an endearing Judy Garland ballad, with Judy's delightful delivery... So Enjoy Folks, Enjoy...
I think strongly they had stereo sound in the mid 1920's I just can't find any info about that in the media.
Almost all MGM songs were recorded in multichannel sound but mixed to mono for the film soundtrack. Luckily, many of those multiple stems survive and can be remixed to true stereo.
Beutiful dance 3:26
I love this Judy much better than the Judy that came after the 1950s, when her singing style became bombastic.
This is aural morphine.
She gradually turned into a tribute act to herself after 'Summer Stock', tending if inadvertently to pander to the worst Maenad-like instincts of her more morbid fans. They projected neurosis and self-pity on to her, and it was replenished by fresh, frequent crises in her overexposed private life. She became professionally lazy, failing to overhaul her repertoire and often flaking.
'A Star is Born' was a disaster as much as a triumph, bc it set the Legend of Judy in stone, exculpating her errors of judgment and indiscipline by projecting them on to an imaginary character. In reality there was no Norman Maine, but her idolators conjured up a flock of people who were bad for her, led by Momma Gumm and Louis B Mayer.
It is a pity that Judy became the original Star As Victim, bc on her better days she could still rise above psychodramatics and give a blazing performance. She was funny and courageous. But truth to tell, she did little worth notice after 1961 except recycling.
If only they had filmed this in Technicolor for this was the best of the Mickey/Judy musicals
This is so nice and charming. Lovely to look at! ❤️ JUDY and the old Hollywood style! Nothing can compare to this.
A question to the Uploader Broadway Classixs:
All these Stereo Versions of Judy's songs you present... we're all songs from the late 30ies recorded simultaneously in Mono and Stereo? I'd really like to get more information about this 🙂 Thanks in advance.
Many musicals were recorded in multichannel sound, beginning in the mid-30s. Those tracks were then mixed down to mono for the final film. Some of these "stems" have survived and have been remixed to true stereo. My clips marry the stereo tracks to the film for the first time ever.
Her main dancing partner in that number was Charles Walters.
Yep - and he directed her in Summer Stock.
And Easter Parade
Chuck Walters also danced with Fran Rafferty in Abbott & Costello's third and last loan out film for MGM:"A&C In Hollywood"in 1945..James.
so many men so little time
Her dance partner was in more than one film with her and he dances beautifully with her but she hated her . He was her dance tutor. She called him " the man with the bullwhip". He was a bully . I wish they loved her as she deserved. She would be 102 now, had she lived . Such a tragedy how they destroyed that beautiful and exceptional young lady. Rest in serene peace, Miss Garland . XxxxX
Chuck Walters was a great friend who directed her in Summer Stock because he took such good care of her.
Fantastic! Did you spot a young Perry Como?
I don't think so. His film debut was two years later, in "Something for the Boys". Where do you think you see him?
I thought I heard him, too.
Yes, yes, I thought knew that for years. But he doesn't seem to be credited.
JUDY IS Pretty
3:19 - yikes! That cut, I’m sure the editors wished they had Premiere Pro or Avid or even iMovie back then!
Is Chuck Walters in this number with Judy?
That's him doing the solo with her.
I never heard of him before.
Charles(Chuck)Walters would later become the choreographer and director of MGM movie musicals.
He’s also the one who does the big dance number with her at the end of “Presenting Lilly Mars”, which is magnificent. I never hear much said about that movie, but I think it is just wonderful! Is it considered one of her great performances?