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DVD Review: For Me and My Gal
(1942, Black & White, 104 min.)
Director: Busby Berkeley
After a late-night cup of coffee, vaudevillians Jo Hayden and Harry Palmer sit at a piano and work a song. Moments later Jo realizes she's found exactly what she wasn't looking for: a partner. And with Judy Garland as Jo and Gene Kelly as Harry, the
partnership isn't just ideal. It's a film fan's dream come true.
Kelly debuts and Garland dazzles in this Busby Berkeley-directed take of a song-and-dance pair who take on tank towns, tough times and World War I while struggling for show-biz success. A hit parade of era tunes paces the film, including the wowser
Ballin' the Jack and the sweetly harmonized title tune. Bursting with vitality and old-fashioned charm, For Me and My Gal is for the ages.
THE BELLS ARE RINGING WITH BONUSES!
Commentary by Garland biographer John Fricke
2 Vintage musical shorts and
For Me and My Gal deleted finale and Three Cheers for the Yanks outtake (photo recreations)
Audio Only Bonuses: March 22, 1943 Screen Guild Players Radio Production Starring Garland, Kelly and Dick Powell and Leo Is on the Air Radio Promo
Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles: English, French and Spanish
Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Presented in original theatrical aspect ratio
Film Studio: MGM
DVD Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: April 6, 2004
UPC: 012569590427
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