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MOVIE REVIEWS
Stagestruck Gloria De Haven announces to big sister Judy Garland that she's invited a troupe of actors to live at Judy's farm and put on their show in the barn. Farmer Judy isn't too pleased.
Judy gives in, with the understanding that the cast will help on the farm. Director Gene Kelly and his pal Phil Silvers bungle the chores, but not the show, with Gloria and a "big name" as leads.
The "big name" turns out to be a big heel when Hans Conreid persuades Gloria to go to New York with him for Broadway show. Gene talks fast and gets Judy to play the lead in his show.
Judy and Gene and the show make a great success. A romance has sprung up between them, too. This lets out Judy's rustic beau, Eddie Bracken, but disillusioned Gloria returns and falls for him.
SUMMER STOCK
■ What happens when a bunch of actors take over a farm in the country? Nothing like this, you can bet. Gloria De Haven wishes Gene Kelly and his troupe on sister Judy Garland, an earnest farmer. Judy works hard, loves her tractor, and is due to marry Eddie Bracken if he can stop sneezing long enough to ask her. Judy hates the actors but can't stand to break Gloria's heart, so she lets 'em stay. They're trying out a new show (pre-Broadway, of course) and first thing you know Judy's fallen in love with Gene, though he belongs to Gloria. Luckily, Gloria runs out on the gang just in time for Judy to take over the show's lead role, and Gene too. The extravaganza at the end is MGM-ly spectacular— if you can build a set like that one with the shimmering walls and the sparkling floors in your HI old barn, you can go into the silk-purse-out-ofa-sow's-ear business and get richer than Henry Ford. Still, it's very pretty, which is more than you can say for most lil old barns. Judy's her usual wonderful self; she seems kind of plump and healthy and a little on the matronly-build side as the picture opens, but she's burned her way back to a wraith by the time her last — and best — number comes up. It (the number) is an old one called Get Happy, and it's exciting the way only Garland could make it. Good new songs include You Wonderful You, and My Friendly Star, Gene Kelly's got charm to burn, and it's Technicolored.
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