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The Goldwyn Follies

1938 film by George Marshall

Summary

1938 film by George Marshall

FieldValue
nameThe Goldwyn Follies
imageGoldwyn Follies poster.jpg
captionOne of theatrical release posters
directorGeorge Marshall
producer
writerBen Hecht
starring
musicGeorge Gershwin Vernon Duke
cinematographyGregg Toland
editingSherman Todd
studioSamuel Goldwyn Productions
distributorUnited Artists
released
runtime122 minutes
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
budget$2 millionGoldwyn Believes Color Photography Here to Stay; Budgets $2,000,000 for Big Musical to Prove It!: Stars Enlisted From Grand Opera to Radio for Role in 'The Goldwyn Follies' in Technicolor; Gigli's Screen Debut; Gloria Dickson on Way Up; Valentino Helps the Press Agents; Notes of the Theater.

The Washington Post (1923–1954) [Washington, D.C.] 21 Sep 1937: 14. The Goldwyn Follies is a 1938 Technicolor film written by Ben Hecht, Sid Kuller, Sam Perrin and Arthur Phillips, with music by George Gershwin, Vernon Duke and Ray Golden, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Sid Kuller. The film was the first Technicolor feature produced by Samuel Goldwyn.

The film, which features Adolphe Menjou, Vera Zorina, Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy), Andrea Leeds, Kenny Baker, Ella Logan, Helen Jepson, Bobby Clark and the Ritz Brothers, depicts a movie producer who chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evaluate his films from the point of view of the ordinary person. The style of the film is very similar to that of other musicals of its era, including the Gold Diggers series. George Gershwin had not completed the score before his death July in 1937; Vernon Duke finished the songs with Ira Gershwin and wrote the ballet music.

The Goldwyn Follies was released in February 1938. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Score as orchestrated by Edward B. Powell under the musical direction of Alfred Newman, as well as for Best Interior Decoration.

Plot

Cast

  • Adolphe Menjou as Oliver Merlin (as Adolph Menjou)
  • The Ritz Brothers as Themselves
  • Vera Zorina as Olga Samara
  • Kenny Baker as Danny Beecher
  • Andrea Leeds as Hazel Dawes
  • Edgar Bergen as Himself
  • Charlie McCarthy as Himself
  • Helen Jepson as Leona Jerome
  • Phil Baker as Michael Day
  • Bobby Clark as A. Basil Crane Jr.
  • Ella Logan as Glory Wood
  • Jerome Cowan as Director Lawrence
  • Charles Kullmann as Alfredo in La Traviata
  • The American Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera as Ballet Dancers
  • Nydia Westman as Ada
  • Alan Ladd as First Auditioning Singer (uncredited)
  • Francis Xavier Shields Assistant Director (uncredited)

Soundtrack

Songs include (music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin unless otherwise indicated):

  • "Love Is Here to Stay"
  • "I Was Doing All Right"
  • "Spring Again" (music by Vernon Duke)
  • "Love Walked In"
  • "I Love to Rhyme"
  • "Here Pussy, Pussy (Where's the Gosh-Darn Cat?)" (music by Ray Golden, lyrics by Sid Kuller)

Reception

The film was nominated for the American Film Institute's 2006 list AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals.

However, the film was also included in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and How They Got That Way) by Harry Medved, Randy Dreyfuss and Michael Medved.

References

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20050208123500/http://musicalheaven.com/g/goldwyn_follies.shtml
  • Harry Medved, Randy Dreyfuss, and Michael Medved, The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (1978)
  • Green, Stanley (1999) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2nd ed.), pub. Hal Leonard Corporation page 79

References

  1. Crow, James Francis. "Vernon Duke Chosen as Successor to Gershwin on Goldwyn Film Songs." Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, 14 September 1937, 6.
  2. (2012). "NY Times: The Goldwyn Follies". [[The New York Times]].
  3. "AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals Nominees".
  4. (1978). "The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time (and how They Got that Way)". Angus & Robertson.
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