Hollywood & the Stars: Those Fabulous Musicals

The evolution of the Hollywood Musical.

[@dpf5939]

Musicals were made to put people in better spirits. The Great Depression and WW2 especially. Times were rough. World War. They helped take peoples minds off of the dark times the world was going through.

[@richard526]

What a blessing to be able to see these clips of musicals the likes of which will never come back.

[@judithiorio6403]

So glad I stumbled upon this video. I grew up watching these musicals. Couldn't get enough of them. NOTHING today can compare with " OLD HOLLYWOOD ", not the actors, not the movies.

[@MrTrackman100]

Excellent history of movie musicals. Hope all young people see this so they know the evolution of Hollywood musicals.

[@truecynic1270]

These were the BEST movies of all the movies ! The most entertaining in the the true sense of the word

[@elizabethharris6050]

My father's first job after college, the Depression and the lack of opportunity in architecture, led to a gig at MGM in the set design world of Cedric Gibbons. Louis B. Mayer gave me my first gorgeous lady doll...silk dress, hat, little rabbit-fur cape. Thanks to TCM, I can visit daddy's old sets and see the pretty people who were the Stars. KZbin is a true magic carpet for us oldsters. Thanks!

[@esmeephillips5888]

Cedric Gibbons's contract stipulated that he should get the top credit for art direction on every MGM picture, including those he had nothing to do with.

[@srothbardt]

Fascinating! You could write a book about it.

[@yvonneking1929]

Born in 1929 i was weaned on Hollywood movies and from about the age of five went to the pictures at least twice a week & expected my Life to be like on the Movies when I came out of Cinema I was the Leading Lady & was quite suprised to see ME looking out of Mirror. Changed my hairsyle to be the same as latest film I had seen. That was when America gave so much Happiness to the World should have just kept to Film Making.PS Won a Shirley Temple lookalike when I was three. Thank God for my new I Pad can see them all over again.

[@rodwillerton]

Thank you for posting such nice and interesting comments. Hope you enjoy watching some of the other Hollywood & the Stars episodes on your iPad. I'll try to upload one or two more in due course.

[@sint0xicateme]

Thanks for sharing. I hope this comment sees you and yours healthy and happy.

[@monicadasilva9288]

I was born in 1940 & from the age of about 5 or 6 I became enthralled by the 'moving' pictures. Bought the movie magazines, collected scrapbooks and, as I grew older went twice a day sometimes, seeing 2 'B' movies in the early afternoon & a different movie later. One cannot beat the quality of the black & white (film noir) movies & the magic of Technicolor that was produced in the middle of the 20th Century.

[@cinemafreak5336]

Here we go. It just goes to show what could be achieved in the 30s - Good old Busby Berkley they are still incredibly watchable today. Thanks for the memories.

[@bonitahogue5938]

And I love them,they never grow old

[@allisonyoung4285]

Nothing more can be said, just simply watch the great and fabulous musicals!❤🎉👯‍♂️

[@imsocuteimsorich4952]

CHOROS GIRLS IN THE 1920s+30sWERE SO ENTERTAINING ,THEIR DIALOGUE WAS ACE😘👌🎥 ,

[@Robert4770]

Loved this series I remember staying up to watch it on one of the local New York stations. They used to rerun it at 3am.

[@fredlopez7169]

Cómo me hubiera gustado vivir en esa época llena de elegancia y buena música .

[@colleenclements5715]

Thank you 👏 I feel in love with these movies & stars in myblate teens in the 70's. It was a joy to watch your video. Informative, entertaining & full of details at that moment 😊

[@whiterose783]

Ah to have been in those times. Seeing those movies and seeing the dancing.

[@sandrakenney567]

I love the 1920s +30s musical films.👍🔊📽🎥📽🎬📢lights camera 🎬👍💖

[@davidahlstrom7533]

Really the 1930s musicals. I've see Hollywood and the Stars a few times, but never this segment. Thanks to the poster, really wonderful!

[@nilesapphiresdivinebeauty4943]

NOW THIS IS TRUE AND HYPNOTIC HOLLYWOOD. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL , HANDSOME ARTISTIC GREATNESS OF THESE POORLY PAID DANCERS AND ACTORS. YET, THEY LOVED IT!!!

[@thaitom6410]

Ah, the glory that Hollywood once was, a true factory of dreams. When I see the trifle they're pumping out today, those times are unlikely to ever return again. What a pity.

[@sparx180]

Thomas Schmid I have not gone to a movie in over 15 yrs. So not worth it.

[@maryannemelenka9250]

They did incredible dance sequences, with and without astaire. Pure genius. But bet it was a lot of hard work.

[@oldermusiclover]

now I know where that old Platters tune came from

[@mr.balloffur]

These shows were so well done. Jack Haley Jr did such a good job on all of them I wish someone would put them on DVD.

[@roychefets6961]

I read that the performers practiced so much before the actual shooting, it would not be economical today

[@hebneh]

Watching documentaries like this on TV in the early 1960s as a kid, at first old movies seemed weird and kind of hard to like - although I was seeing entire old films on television all the time then. Within a few years I figured out that, in fact, old movies were fascinating. And of course I still think so.

[@HunterMann]

Thanks so much ch for posting this wondrous documentary Rod. HM, founder & projectionist Highway Cinema

[@jaytaylor7740]

Wonderful to see this program again...haven't seen it since it was first aired....and to read the appreciative comments below. Thanks for sharing.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on December 2, 1963.

[@hanschenk2708]

EXCELLENT

[@joannajazzyrimmer]

Well never see the likes ever again.

[@deliarodriquez4989]

I wish I was there I love those olddies.especaily the ,good old 30-1940.if only we had one wish to go anywhere.i think people would pick those good and woudeful.and only 1930s

[@--Skip--]

That intro clip is from Top Hat, starring Fred Astaire, with a very young Bob Hope behind hin in the dancing chorus. Fred, using his taps as a machine gun sound, was revolutionary with its sound and the general public's fascination with the mob during the Prohibition Era of the Great Depression.

[@bonniebelmondo381]

S' WONDERFUL 👍🏻 S' MARVELLOUS 😍 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 THANK YOU 💋💋😘

[@amandawhiteley6737]

Blimey, didn't they deliver!!!@ Loving these clips!

[@patriciaotoole5930]

Beautiful

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent with very good interesting video

[@karengershham]

Thank you for this series. I remember this and of course that great theme music.

[@dpf5939]

My personal favorite musical star is Betty Grable. Especially the technicolor ones of the 1940s and '50s.

[@olderthanyoucali8512]

Ruby keeler, homely faced dancer, one of the many not very attractive stars who became famous none the less, and to this day from the beginning, publicly makes them heart throbs.

[@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester]

Just wonderful.

[@franciscojavierdiegorivas9885]

Fueron las mejores producciones del mundo de todos los tiempos.

[@rosebud3971]

Thanks for your work and wonderful rendition. 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@martinthoma4100]

Great entertainers in the 30's , I wished they added Buddy Ebsen he was also a fabulous dancer in the 30's

[@davidlee4619]

I have watched with so much enjoyment all of the episodes you have uploaded - except the last one :( and they take me back to when I started working in cinemas in the early 1960's. It was a wonderful life getting paid for something I enjoyed doing - If you have any others of the series it would be marvellous if you could upload them. Many many thanks for these.

[@Wolfsky9]

Ahhhhh yes, the musical. now, a long forgotten film experience. ------------MY # 1 30's musical : " Follow the Fleet " --------the 40's : " On The Town " / " You'll Never Get Rich " / " Anchors Away " / & " Orchestra Wives " ------------the 50's ? : " Singin In The Rain " / " An American In Paris " / " The Band Wagon " ----------the 60's ! : " West Side Story " / " The Sound Of Music " & " My Fair Lady " -----and the 70's : " Fiddler On The Roof " -------------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o

[@osocool1too]

Oh wow...😁🥸😎

[@imsocuteimsorich4952]

I LOVED ALL THOSE OLD MUSICALS THE DANCERS WERE SO EXCITEMENT TO WATCH GRED ASTAIRE JUDY EXTRA O INNOCENT THEN,PITY THEY DONT MAKE THEM LIKE THAT ANYMORE,

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

At the beginning, the narrator said 1934, NO, "Top Hat" was 1935, the second most popular movie that year.

[@carlybishop6160]

Thank you. I am glad it wasn't just me who was getting annoyed with that.

[@yvonneking1929]

Rod Thankyou so much for taking the trouble to text me, You are doing Wonderful job reminding people of how great Hollywood was in its prime,I think the happiest times of my life(I think I did tel you I was 84)were spent in the cinema especially during WW2 when the films were so great & all the Stars were so glamorous then, today I can barely distinguish one from from the other. I dont feel that old & only retired from Heathrow Airport at age of 82. Carry on the Good work. Yvonne

[@yvonneking1929]

Thanks Rod again for Hollywood memories the more I see of this world the more I apreciate the Hollywood years. Having medical problems at the moment waiting for results if good will keep on enjoying memories of good old days. If not & there is a good place to go to maybe Hollywood is there. (Sorry being silly) good luck & take care Yvonne

[@nancyjensen6409]

I'm at the younger end being 75. I took dance lessons & loved it all, but then got strep throat after strep throat. The doctor said I had to stop my lessons. It was heartbreaking because i waa good. At least I can watch these greats. Thanks.

[@amandawhiteley6737]

Which is the one is Nelson Eddy in with Jeanette McDonald? All these are just fab, could watch these all night, ha ha! Better than the usual evening telly!

[@robertoreilly8175]

Very good documentary on a popular subject.

[@hairyscotman]

Loretta Young and Sally Blain were GORGEOUS!!!

[@DouglasGilzow]

The clips with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald are from two different films that they made apart from each other, "Knickerbocker Holiday" and "The Lottery Bride," respectively.

[@victoriasimon263]

I love this You Tube Red content. Always has the old movies I grew up with and always entertaining. THANKS1

[@sandrakenney567]

Chorus girls of those days were absolutely beautiful and the dancing with the back round .i have to give the credit to the dance instructor and the interior designers for there dance routines 10/10+👏👏👏👏👏👏👏for their ideas .dance routines and the designes of what the songs where about . todays songs and films will never compare to the elegance and beauty of the dancers then. they may be gone rest in peace to them. or old but not forgotten for they were the as i say the greatest performers who danced on flying planes and with there hard work and effort made it all look so simple.To those dancers who never got the credit they deserved 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍✊✊✊💖💖💖💖💙💙💙💜💜💜💝💝💝🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Lights💡💡💡📽📽📽📢📢📢 Action.thank you and Godbless You .🎭🌟🔊📢📽🎬🏆⭐⭐🌟🌟💐💐🌹🌹🌷🌷🌻🌻🌷🌼🌻🌹🌸💐🦋🕊🐬🤩😘😁😁🤗🤩.

[@Prionel]

Thanks, Rod!

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

At 18:50, I think that's from the movie "Damsel in Distress"? I have it on DVD. Show Fred dancing with George Burns and Gracie Allen; during that movie, Fred kept looking for George Gershwin, wondering why he never showed up.

[@germanquintero10121946]

INOLVIDABLES

[@mikecloud1257]

I wonder if later generations catch the cultural references in these 30’s movies. I was born in 1951 and catch 95% of them.

[@davidcoria9264]

Deanna Durban is so beautiful young. Her voice is technology awesome musics! R.I.P.

[@carloshugogeib7961]

Those were the days when Hollywood did people dream, dance and sing. But it was another time, anothe generation. Now a days it seems be forbbuten to dream.

[@jillsmcfarland2001]

You were used to distract

[@paulmason6474]

They don’t make them like that anymore!

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

At 15:32, no, play the way Bing Crosby sings "Temptation".

[@nelsongcova]

Superbe!!

[@glennso47]

One thing that they never did an episode of was animated cartoons and the people who produced them.

[@axolotol1943]

Who controls and from whom might one obtain rights to some of these in decent resolution for film classes where I teach? Thank you.

[@elderlypoodle9181]

Oh!! Go out there and be so swell, you’ll make me hate you ! 🏆

[@keithnaylor1981]

Wonderful! I would say there were 3 great musical periods: Busby Berkeley Fred Astaire Rogers and Hammerstein (Plus other singular gems along the way such as: Singing in the Rain My Fair Lady, Gigi and Oliver!) I would highly recommend the Warner Bros DVD: The Busby Berkeley Disc which has 21 of his incredible productions including the greatest dance sequence ever filmed: Lullaby of Broadway! KAN 5.20 UK

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

Keith Naylor- Yes, we have the complete collection on DVD, from "Golddiggers of 1929" to "Golddiggers in Paris".

[@HMV101]

Very enjoyable, thanks for sharing. One minor suggestion -perhaps a bit less stabilization might be in order.

[@bbcisrubbish]

As usual, not a word about Harry Warren and Al Dubin.

[@DigitalDiscusVideo]

Busby Berkeley became a legend choreographing the songs of Harry Warren & Al Dubin as orchestrated by the great Ray Heindorf! Busby owes these three men... big time!

[@imonthebox1148]

This is a terrible u-tube broadcast. Not a mention of the songwriters behind the songs. Irving Berlin. Cole Porter. Harry Warren and his then lyricist Al Dubin........Busby Berkeley coudnt do a damn thing without the songwriters. Bloody terrible u-tube broadcast...

[@esmeephillips5888]

Berkeley certainly was not an 'ex-Broadway hoofer'. He could not dance a step, and needed assistants to coach the chorus. His gift was for visualizing spectacle and masterminding formations. Buzz was more a drill instructor than a choreographer.

[@esmeephillips5888]

In Quentin Tarantino's new book he says directors cannot wait for the vogue for comic book movies to pass, bc churning out this formula product is unsatisfying. He adds that in the Sixties directors rejoiced when the studios stopped making lots of musicals for the same reason. Well, I'll take most 'routine' musicals made between 1933 ('42nd Street', 'Flying Down to Rio') and 1958 ('Gigi') over anything the liberated, creative geniuses and auteurs of the next quarter-century achieved. And it was the failure of the new kids on the block to connect with big audiences that led the bosses to fall back on the dreary formulas and empty, effects-heavy spectacles we endure to this day. Perhaps the Golden Age was destined not to last bc of other factors, such as the breakup of vertically integrated combines and the inroads of TV. But golden it was, and nothing in it glitters more gloriously in retrospect than that kinaesthetic melding of all the arts- the musical film.

[@sandrakenney567]

I Remember watching these musicals when i was young. I was 6 in 1962 and i was fasanated by the dancers and there clothes absolutely beautiful. My nan r.i p💐💐🌷🌷🕊🕊💝🙏.every sunday would bring me to the movies and it was like going to the Oscars in my mind.but movies then were so perfectionised.movies today are not the same .even watching the oscars are a disappointment.theres no grace or elegance anymore.Sad.oscars today is like going to a porn show .🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.sorry but its true.

[@kylesievertsen6]

0:00 Please Look At All The Universal Studios Live Action Movie Musicals and The Fox Film (20th Century Fox)/20th Century Fox/Fox 2000 Pictures (20th Century Fox) Live Action Movie Musicals

[@christineizeki1299]

Top Hat

[@joshuataylor6087]

What happened to Hollywood, back when they used to make art

[@jeffshannon6914]

*Ginger chose to be laid to rest in exact same cem in CHATTSWORTH, CALIF

[@Wolfsky9]

Loretta Young was a Drop-Dead, beauty. -------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o

[@Wolfsky9]

Ahhhhhh yes, nothing at all wrong with hundreds of pretty girls !! -------------------------WolfSky9

[@glennso47]

My mom had a thing for Dick Powell when she was younger.

[@lindawoody8501]

No, today those extras and many chorus dancers would be computer generated images as filler even as the secondary Actors in a lot of cases. Saves big dollars as those live effects are very pricey as noted here.

[@derickally]

At 1:44 It would be fascinating to find out who the two assistants of Thomas Edison were.

[@Arthur_McGowan]

The film is on KZbin. With the original sound, and the names.

[@bruceghent8776]

Filmed during an earthquake.

[@drhcVc]

What is the song at 04:12 ?

[@user-vf6cr3ol9l]

05:45 "Людей не ищем" или, все-таки "никто не хотел"???

[@roderickfernandez5382]

Does anyone know if there's any more of Shirley Ross anywhere I love her in that seeing with Bob Hope but I know nothing about her I assumed she was a Broadway star if anybody has any info give me a nod

[@andoracidonia]

5:10 what movie is it?

[@greggi47]

There's a very brief scene at 6:50, It is typical Busby B formula, with dancers coming down two staircases that surround a huge face that liooks like a demented clown, Can anybody tell me the name of the film?

[@rmcfete]

Only showing EP once is disrespectful since she was the biggest star of those musicals and saved MGM from bankruptcy!!

[@dandalo_7825]

What is the song at 6:14 ?

[@Susan10093]

"We're In the Money" sung by Ginger Rogers, from "Gold-diggers of 1933"

[@DigitalDiscusVideo]

@@Susan10093 Music by Harry Warren & Lyrics by Al Dubin... the Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig of Hollywood songwriters!

[@simoneohara8641]

Hi

[@fwboring802]

Narrator sounds like Joseph Cotten.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

fwboring - You got it.

[@jackrenglish]

YEP..JE

[@bangersmash1566]

how did Ginger ever dance in those heels?

[@enriquebonifacino9939]

Both, Fred and Ginger, were light as a feather. They seem not to touch the floor when they dance.

[@TellyWatcher1997]

She did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels........I loved their partnership but have to say am also a big fan of the Nicholas Brothers (who could possibly be my favourite screen duo.

[@glennso47]

It was said that her feet were a bloody bruised mess after a few takes.

[@srothbardt]

Apparently, Fred Astaire didn’t like top hats etc.

[@charlynegezze8536]

What about the Ziegfield Follies?

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

The Ziegfeld Follies were all done on Broadway, live on stage. Only one of them, Whoopee, was actually made into a movie as well.

[@bruceanderton1518]

Interesting story-but a great pity that the technical quality is so bad, even bearing in mind the age of the material: it could be a lot better than this.

[@user-od2ps4fl7w]

Странно , очень странно ! Идёт в стране Америке великая депрессия , а кадры кинохроники показывают такую кинороскошь ! И еще --- актрисы и актёры все одинаковые , будь то клонированы и привезены все в один момент !!!!! Очень странно идёт история !!!!

[@emoskovics]

great but speaks so fast want a list of movies ..

[@twoglcox]

Orientation Wells narrating?

[@terrygrant3467]

Basically speaking once you saw a Ginger and Fred movie, you saw them all. The stories were Basically the same, but the dancing was really good. I'm not a fan of Freds, thought as an actor he was boring, not good looking at all, his hair always looked like it was painted on. But, he could hoof it. If they judged men on.their looks the way they judge women, Fred probably wouldn't have made it.

[@Lydiard91]

I always thought it was ironic that Funny Face was supposed to refer to Audrey Hepburn instead of Fred Astaire

[@steveweinstein3222]

Lots of fun but Astaire's & Rogers' last film lost a ton of money.

[@bobbyfrancis8957]

You mean "Barkleys of Broadway"? I always thought that had too much dancing in it.

[@esmeephillips5888]

He probably means the biopic of the Castles, which was Fred's 'passion project'. The one before, 'Carefree', also ended in the red.

[@blacksheep1950]

@@esmeephillips5888 I consider " The Story of The Castles" the best musical Fred & Ginger starred in. Also, a salute to the fantastic RKO musical orchestration in the Musicals from 1933 to 1939 which very few movie buffs give credit to .

[@esmeephillips5888]

@@blacksheep1950 I would not put it quite so high in the canon, but the end is moving bc it was also- or so everybody thought at the time- the end of musicals' greatest partnership. Maybe that was too poignant for 1939's audiences. They wanted Ginger and Fred to keep on dancing for eternity.

[@user-vf6cr3ol9l]

05:39 "Уолл Стрит располагает как яйцеклетка" - это всего-лишь один из вариантов перевода на русский язык? Интересно...