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Various MGM stars from yesteryear present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.Various MGM stars from yesteryear present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.Various MGM stars from yesteryear present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
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- TriviaNorma Shearer made an agitated phone call to MGM senior executive Paul Rosenfeld, insisting that her reaction shots to Clark Gable's 'Puttin' on the Ritz' (from Idiot's Delight (1939)) be deleted. Unfortunately, it was too late to make any changes, and the shots remained in the film. Shearer explained to Rosenfeld in a letter, "I am presented as no more than an extra without screen credit while others who are dancers and singers perform triumphantly as stars of this production." When Rosenfeld offered to arrange a screening for Shearer, she declined saying, "I would be devastated to see myself as such an insignificant part of the whole. It is a little too late to do anything now except to express to you my wounded pride."
- GoofsAt the beginning of the film, Frank Sinatra says The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) is the "first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing movie ever made". In fact, it wasn't; the first was The Broadway Melody (1929), which was released in February, nine months before "The Hollywood Revue" was released. Indeed, by the time of That's Entertainment! III (1994), narrator Gene Kelly was now calling The Hollywood Revue of 1929, "one of the first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing movies."
- Quotes
Liza Minnelli: Thank God for film. It can capture a performance and hold it right there forever. And if anyone says to you, "Who was he?" or, "Who was she?" or, "What made them so good?" I think a piece of film answers that question better than any words I know of.
- Crazy creditsProducer Jack Haley Jr.'s credit appears over a still image of his father,
Jack Haley, as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.
- Alternate versionsSome TV prints extend Bing Crosby's segment by adding the musical number "True Love" from "High Society" (1956).
- ConnectionsEdited into American Masters: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)
- SoundtracksThat's Entertainment
(1953) (uncredited)
Music by Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics by Howard Dietz
Performed by the M-G-M Studio Orchestra Conducted by Henry Mancini
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It Sure Is, and We'll Never See the Like Again!
For anyone who longs to experience some of the great movie musical moments again, "That's Entertainment" is a Godsend. For anyone who hasn't seen many, or any, of the great MGM musicals and wants to know what made them great, "That's Entertainment" is a revelation. Either way, it's an entertainment extravaganza that can't be beat, and it's easy to see why it was the surprise movie hit of 1974.
In fact, I remember the first time I saw it. I was sixteen, and I saw it at a matinee showing, with my Mother, at the now-defunct Cooper Theater in Denver, Colorado. I think what amazed us the most about the film was that, after almost every number, the audience burst into prolonged applause. You'd think it was a concert instead of a movie! But that's the appeal that these timeless musical moments have. You don't just watch this movie, you're PART of it.
As Frank Sinatra says at the outset of the film, "You can wait around and hope, but you'll never see the like of this again."
An affectionate tribute to the great movie musicals that became a great movie musical itself. See it! See it! See it!
In fact, I remember the first time I saw it. I was sixteen, and I saw it at a matinee showing, with my Mother, at the now-defunct Cooper Theater in Denver, Colorado. I think what amazed us the most about the film was that, after almost every number, the audience burst into prolonged applause. You'd think it was a concert instead of a movie! But that's the appeal that these timeless musical moments have. You don't just watch this movie, you're PART of it.
As Frank Sinatra says at the outset of the film, "You can wait around and hope, but you'll never see the like of this again."
An affectionate tribute to the great movie musicals that became a great movie musical itself. See it! See it! See it!
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- Also known as
- That's Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM
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- Budget
- $3,200,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,890,200
- Gross worldwide
- $26,890,200
- Runtime2 hours 15 minutes
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By what name was That's Entertainment! (1974) officially released in Canada in English?
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