One for the Book (1940)
ジャンル : コメディ, ファンタジー, 音楽
上映時間 : 18分
演出 : Roy Mack
シノプシス
In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
1932~33年にニューヨークで、1933~34年にロンドンで好評を得たドワイト・テイラー作のミュージカル・コメディー「陽気な離婚」の映画化で、脚色には「ラジオは笑う」「その夜」の小ジョージ・マリオン・ジュニアと「ふるさとの唄」のドロシ・ヨーストが共同し、監督には「メリケン万歳爆走の巻」「レヴュー艦隊」のマーク・サンドリッチが当たった。主役は「空中レヴュー時代」に出演したフレッド・アステアたジンジャー・ロジャースのチームで「坊やが盗まれた」「紐育・ブロードウェイ」のアリス・ブラディ、「生活の設計」「恋の手ほどき(1933)」のエドワード・エヴァレット・ホートンが共演するほか、エリック・ローズ、エリック・ブローア、ウィリアム・オースティン等が助演している。舞踏振り付けは「空中レヴュー時代」「レヴュー艦隊」のデーヴ・ゴールドで、撮影は「舗道」「お蝶夫人」のデイヴィット・エーベルで、トリック撮影は「コングの復讐」のヴァーノン・ウォーカーが担当。
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
20年代、ハーレムのクラブではエリントン楽団の留守にキャブ・キャロウェイが人気を博し、ニコラス兄弟が華麗なタップを披露していた……。マフィアの抗争をジャズに乗せて鮮やかに描く。
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but gradually falls under its spell—with the help of an American movie producer. A remake of Ninotchka (1939).
A bookshop clerk starts seeing the disfigured killer from her favorite 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her.
It's midnight at the bookstore and all the book and magazine characters are coming to life. When a bulldog from an adventure book uses a Boswell Sisters-like performance by girls in a travel magazine as a distraction to rob a bank, he is chased, caught, and sentenced to, of course "Life" (the magazine). But there's also a conveniently placed "Escape" magazine....
Four black minstrels turn into white clowns and back again when they hit or kick each other.
A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.
At Satan & Co., Inc., the devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns, the task of getting more people to his domain. In front of a nightclub, Mr. Burns invites a crowd of people to come inside to The Devil's Cabaret to be entertained. After they enjoy songs and dancing, the people go willingly to Hades.
Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.
A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an introductory song. A very young Judy Garland, in one of her earliest surviving film appearances, performs the song "The Land of Let's Pretend" as part of the vaudeville act "The Gumm Sisters".
In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with songs and nightclub tours.
This musical short focuses on the trials and tribulations of a saloon singer.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, filled with romance, excitement and high spirits - not to mention a dozen musical numbers.
In this MGM Colortone Musical short, a department store custodian who overindulges in drink sees the mannequins in the store's display windows come to life.
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."