Essential Classics - American Musicals

Director: Morton DaCosta, Vincent Minnelli, Stanley Donen

Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Howard Keel, Jane Powell

(MGM, 1945) Rated: Unrated

US DVD release date: 24 April 2007

[27 April 2007]

by Michael Buening

Accentuate the Positive

This is a conformist America as it was defining itself in the mid 20th century, a young superpower looking backwards for grounding. The characters are brash and loud and charismatic.

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