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Thousands Cheer (1943)
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The second half of this 1943 Technicolor musical is an excuse for MGM's contract talent to perform songs and sketches in a big show at an Army base. Unfortunately, more than an hour passes before the show arrives, stranding the viewer with a thin service comedy about an opera singer (Kathryn Grayson) tagging along to a military camp in hopes of reuniting her estranged parents, whose names are Bill and Hillary (no comments, please). Romance comes in the form of private Gene Kelly, a former trapeze artist who misses the glory of his former life. Grayson warbles, and Kelly has one nifty solo dance (with a mop and broom), but the all-star revue...
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Misleading. Although the title has a thoughtful and easily awesome subject matter, the movie in itself threw me off. This movie was created before the time of the USA millitary Cheer Corps, an offshoot of the navy. It is lacking. The musical mish mash would have been enhanced a thousand fold with the saving grace of a...
(complete Thousands Cheer review by Cheerleader Dan)
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