In this short, introduced by Harry von Zell, Johnny Green and His Orchestra favour us with "Dinah," "Swanee River" and "Rhythm Is Our Business" amongst other selections.
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Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
A Brilliant Conflict
It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
This is the sort of musical short that my grandparents would have described as classy: with the perspective of eighty years, conductor/orchestrator/pianist Johnny Green comes off as a sort of cut-rate Gershwin -- which is unfair. He had a fairly distinctive career in popular highbrow music. By the 1950s he would be seen in several shorts from MGM conducting the house orchestra in light classics. Here he shows up in white evening clothes playing the piano in a fairly flashy manner.Harry von Zell, best remembered for being a member of George Burns and Gracie Allen's stock company offers some linking material. He is shockingly thin given what I remember of his appearances in the 1950s.
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