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Summer Stock (1950)
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Judy Garland managed to subdue her ongoing medical problems long enough to make Summer Stock in 1950, her last film with MGM and longtime collaborator Gene Kelly. In a throwback to Garland's "let's put on a show" films with Mickey Rooney, Kelly plays a theater director who sets up in Garland's barn to prepare his musical, but Garland has other ideas. Romantic entanglements ensue, of course, and Eddie Bracken, Phil Silvers, and Marjorie Main are on hand to lend comedic support. Following his mostly forgettable score in 1949's The Barkleys of Broadway, Harry Warren contributes another mostly forgettable score, though it's...
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The Gene Kelly-Judy Garland pairing comes to an end with this uneven flick about putting on a show in a barn (hmmm...sound familiar, Judy?). Garland plays the farm-owner who reluctantly opens her home to a theatre troupe and falls into the show and into the arms of its director and star (guess who?).
Garland was much...
(complete Summer Stock review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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