One Hundred Men and a Girl [Region 2]
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In Theaters : 05 September, 1937 |
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One Hundred Men and a Girl [Region 2] description
Despite its Larry Flynt-friendly title, Deanna Durbin is typically wholesome in the lavishly produced musical One Hundred Men and a Girl, which finds its heroine saving a fledgling orchestra led by financially challenged father Adolph Menjou, along with help from Leopold Stokowski. Not surprisingly, music is literally center stage for much of this delightful film; highlights include Stoki's batonless conducting of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Deanna's winsome trilling of Mozart's "Alleluia." The resulting package earned its star a special 1938 Academy Award (for her "spirit and personification of youth") and took home an Oscar of its own for Charles Previn's score. --Steven Smith |
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Daughter to the Rescue
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I decided to watch this movie because I saw it won an Oscar for Best Writing (or something like that). It is a Depression Era movie that tells of an unemployed trombone player (supposedly unemployed for 2 years!). Anyway, circumstances lead his teenage daughter to approach an eccentric socialite woman about sponsoring a band of unemployed musicians (father was not alone in the musical unemployment lines). Through a bunch of mildly amusing twists, things gradually develop.
This movie features a conductor by the name of Stokowski (it kept sounding like Tschaichovsky). I assumed that he, too, was a fictional character. However, I saw him listed on the credits as himself so he must have been somebody back then. I thought the movie was OK but nothing too special. I note from other reviews that Deanna Durbin was a popular figure. She sang in an operatic style. I got a kick out of the conductor asking what she wanted to sing and the orchestra breaking into an unprepared, unrehearsed "La Traviata". Adolphe Menjou gave his usual mediocre preformance but the hit of the movie, for me, was Eugene Pallette (he of the basso profundo voice). In fact there was a constant game of practical jokes between he and one of his rich cohorts that worked into the plot quite well. After watching the movie (which I had taped a week before), I realized that it was just the right movie for me to have watched on April Fool's Day. |
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