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Summary: all singing, all dancing, all fun !
Review: One of my all-time favorites! It's about college life during the roaring 20's. 23-skidoo! Wonderful songs, from the beautifully romantic to the showstopping big band blowout dance numbers. Lots of high energy! The cinematography is great ( technicolor ) from the big football game to glamorous close-ups of Ms. Allyson and Mr. Lawford. Background note: In the "French Lesson" song, Ms. Allyson teaches Mr. Lawford how to speak French, but in real life, it was Mr. Lawford who taught Ms. Allyson the French words she needed to sing for the movie. Fun, eh?. A great musical for all ages!
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Summary: allyson singing "best things" is one of the best things!
Review: One reviewer said: The biggest disaster in watching the 1947 version of "Good News" is the one classic song that we still hear today, "The Best Things in Life Are Free." Allyson sings this ditty in her tuneless, hollow voice to Peter Lawford in a medium shot. Nothing happens. She sings, he listens, the camera almost never moves, and we're forced to listen to Hollywood's most non-musical performer assault our ears in a song that seems to never end. But this is quite wrong. Just look at how the camera has been used, and how the song has been choreographed with great subtlety. It looks to me like june allyson actually made a mistake in the routine, she looks down to her right twice towards the end of the song, and it looks to me like the first time was too early, so she did it again where it had been intended. Nevertheless, this does not detract from a superbly sung and presented song.
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Summary: Good News is Great News
Review: This is one of the best musicals I have seen. Peter Lawford as a rich football hero and June Allyson, a hard working librarian/sorority girl. With great songs by Joan McCracken and Mel Torme. This movie is a great romantic comedy. It is a must see.
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Summary: WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT
Review: This lavish 1947 remake of the 1930 M-G-M film - which was priorly a 1927 Broadway musical - is still great fun to watch! Peter Lawford plays Tommy, the football hero, and pert, little June Allyson of the croaky voice plays Connie who's working her way through Tait College as a librarian. Patricia Marshall plays the school sexpot who has her heart set on Lawford but Tommy can't make his grades, so he must be tutored by Guess Who? Most every song is winning, the choreography is stunning and the old Technicolor (by Charles Schoenbaum) is brilliant. New songs which were added to the original score were PASS THAT PEACE PIPE & THE FRENCH LESSONS. ENJOY!
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Summary: The best movie ever
Review: This movie is one of my personal favorits of all time. It has great acting, wonderful songs/music, and very entertaning dance numbers. The first time I ever saw this movie on TV I ran to the nearest place to rent it. And soon after I got one of my own so I could watch it again and again. I strongly suggest you do the same! You won't regret it.
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Summary: Allyson is Great in this 1947 TECHNICOLOR Musical now on DVD
Review: This second film (1947 Technicolor) post WWII version of the Broadway Musical classic "Good News" has June Allyson providing us with a nice song & dance lead. The original 1930 version with Penny Singleton (aka "BLONDE" movie series of the 30 -50's) was a Depression upbeat/ fun, crazy go lucky musical. The "Good News" 1947 remake has been beautifully remastered & provides us with the most vivid & clear TECHNICOLOR transfer imagineable!! It is just perfect! June Allyson referred to as "the girl every man wants to marry & the girl every woman wants as a friend" proves her musical talents both in song & dance. Especially in the "Varsity Rag" dance finale". Allyson even commented this was one of her favorite films. (It shows!!!)... A very pleasing musical DVD with feature extras to include: 1947 deleted scenes & from the 1930 Black & White version dance numbers with Penny Singleton, Production Notes & Trailer. This DVD delivers what it promises, "GOOD NEWS". Enjoy.
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Summary: Allyson is Great in this 1947 TECHNICOLOR Musical now on DVD
Review: This second film (1947 Technicolor) post WWII version of the Broadway Musical classic "Good News" has June Allyson providing us with a nice song & dance lead. The original 1930 version with Penny Singleton (aka "BLONDE" movie series of the 30 -50's) was a Depression upbeat/ fun, crazy go lucky musical. The "Good News" 1947 remake has been beautifully remastered & provides us with the most vivid & clear TECHNICOLOR transfer imagineable!! It is just perfect! June Allyson referred to as "the girl every man wants to marry & the girl every woman wants as a friend" proves her musical talents both in song & dance. Especially in the "Varsity Rag" dance finale". Allyson even commented this was one of her favorite films. (It shows!!!)... A very pleasing musical DVD with feature extras to include: 1947 deleted scenes & from the 1930 Black & White version dance numbers with Penny Singleton, Production Notes & Trailer. This DVD delivers what it promises, "GOOD NEWS". Enjoy.
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Summary: Fast, breezy entertainment!
Review: This version of "Good News" (there was a 1930 adaptation) takes the wonderful musical score (plus some interpolated standards), and folds it into a terrifically innocent, fast, and joyful plot about 1920s college kids, the big football game, and the brainy student (June allyson) who tutors, then falls in love with, the gridiron hero (Peter Lawford). There were greater musicals produced by MGM in the '40s and '50s than this one, but even the best of those ("The Band Wagon", "Singin' in the Rain") are hard pressed to match the sheer energy and sparkle of this "minor" MGM tuner. Everything about "Good News" works effortlessly, and the fun is amped up considerably by the straight-ahead kinetics of the numbers. From the title song (done on the front steps of the fictional Tait College), through the jazzy specialty "pass That Peace Pipe", on to the genuinely exciting finale to "The Varisty Drag", the arrangements have snap and drive, and the choreography is equal to the scoring in impact. On DVD, the Technicolor picture is vibrant, sharp, and steady. The monophonic sound is fairly strong considering the age of the film; overall the presentation is top notch. The extras include two staggeringly campy musical excerpts from the 1930 version, featuring a pre-"Blondie" Penny Singleton scrunching up her face and pounding out the lumbering dance steps to horse-y versions of the title song and "The Varsity Drag". Very funny and a great complement to the exuberance of the 1947 version.
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Summary: Fast, breezy entertainment!
Review: This version of "Good News" (there was a 1930 adaptation) takes the wonderful musical score (plus some interpolated standards), and folds it into a terrifically innocent, fast, and joyful plot about 1920s college kids, the big football game, and the brainy student (June allyson) who tutors, then falls in love with, the gridiron hero (Peter Lawford). There were greater musicals produced by MGM in the '40s and '50s than this one, but even the best of those ("The Band Wagon", "Singin' in the Rain") are hard pressed to match the sheer energy and sparkle of this "minor" MGM tuner. Everything about "Good News" works effortlessly, and the fun is amped up considerably by the straight-ahead kinetics of the numbers. From the title song (done on the front steps of the fictional Tait College), through the jazzy specialty "pass That Peace Pipe", on to the genuinely exciting finale to "The Varisty Drag", the arrangements have snap and drive, and the choreography is equal to the scoring in impact. On DVD, the Technicolor picture is vibrant, sharp, and steady. The monophonic sound is fairly strong considering the age of the film; overall the presentation is top notch. The extras include two staggeringly campy musical excerpts from the 1930 version, featuring a pre-"Blondie" Penny Singleton scrunching up her face and pounding out the lumbering dance steps to horse-y versions of the title song and "The Varsity Drag". Very funny and a great complement to the exuberance of the 1947 version.
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Summary: Extra! Extra! Read all about it!! Good News! Good News!!!!!!
Review: You know what, all the movie I love, when I look at the directors name, it is almost always Charles Walters! Charles Walters has done such wonderful, memorable movie such as: Easter Parade, Summer Stock... But maybe Good News is one of the best! Good News is about a girl named Connie (June Alison), who never was really noticed by the other guys at her college: Tait.
Particularly, the boy that all the girls like: Tommy Harlow (Peter Lawford). Wait a minute, all girls except one. The horrible, snobby, mean, selfish, scheming, not really that pretty, self centered, terrible: Pat McClellan (Parricia Marshall). Tommy is a lady's man who really just thinks he's got it all. And falls for every pretty face. So when Pat comes to the college Tommy does everything in his power to get the girl to fall in love with him. But Pat has other ideas. Pat is only after one thing: $Money$ And that is why she chases Tommy away for the 25 million dollar Peter VanDyne the III. Crestfallen at his first brush off, Tommy determindedly sets to learning Pat's beloved language french. To make an impression, and to steal Pat's admiration. So, Tommy sets off the library to learn some french, when he meets the sweet, lovely Connie.
Where he makes Connie fall desperately in love with him, and even a little in love with her. So, he ends up asking her to the prom, and breaking the date when Babe Dolittle Connie room mate (Joan McCkraken) feeling sorry for Tommy tells Pat that Tommy is the Pickle King with thirty million dollars. The fortune hunger quickly turns to Tommy to his delight and satisfaction. Dropping Connie completely. Angry, jealous, and hurt, but still very much in love, Connie schemes to draw her Tommy back in her life and into her arms.
Wonderful songs like: The best things in life are free, The Ladies man,The french song, and more, make this a wonderful movie!! And though June and Peter are not the best vocalists, you love it because it is still them!! This is really a great movie!!!
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