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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0018713812063
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Good Times Video
Manufacturer: Good Times Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Good Times Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 01, 2001
Running Time: 135 minutes
Sales Rank: 69111
Studio: Good Times Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1946
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Hollywood's 1940s craze for composer biographies did not yield many masterpieces, and Till the Clouds Roll By is one of the weaker efforts in the bunch. Robert Walker tries gamely to suggest the decency of Jerome Kern but is defeated by a sluggish story line pairing him with a crotchety mentor (Van Heflin). As a collection of freestanding production numbers devoted to Kern's songs, however, the movie has appeal. It begins with almost 20 minutes of Showboat (including Lena Horne's plaintive reading of 'Can't Help Lovin' That Man') and the hits just keep on coming. Judy Garland, who appears in a few scenes as stage star Marilyn Miller, contributes 'Look for the Silver Lining' and a Gatsby-esque production number on 'Who?' Her songs were staged by then-hubby Vincente Minnelli. Other highlights include a young Angela Lansbury, still with baby fat, singing 'How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?' Lucille Bremer, a leggy starlet who never quite caught on, plays Kern's protégé. She spins a delightful duet with Van Johnson on 'I Won't Dance,' two redheads capering with gusto. It all ends with another splashy theatrical montage, climaxing in Frank Sinatra's take on 'Ol' Man River.' That might sound like a strange idea, but Ol' Blue Eyes clearly loves the song (he would return to it often in his career) and is in beautiful voice. Despite being a lavish MGM production, Till the Clouds fell out of copyright and into the public domain, so print quality (and even running time) can be variable. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It has its moments, but on balance the movie seems to be over-produced when people are singing and dull when they aren't
What an odd insect-in-amber musical Till the Clouds Roll By, a somewhat biographical film about Jerome Kern, now seems. It freezes in time all the weaknesses and some of the strengths of an MGM musical style that has long passed from the scene. Kern was one of the giants of American song-writing. It's no exaggeration to say that he was the great bridge between the European operetta style of early Broadway musicals and the completely home- grown and energetic style which came from Gershwin, Rodgers, ... Read More
Rating: - Only Make-Believe
Movie musicals were guaranteed box-office during the golden age of Hollywood, but they often had trouble figuring ways to squeeze as many song hits as they could into a show, so the studios started doing all-star biographies to the great composers of the American songbook. Usually the stories were ridiculous and invented (since the composers were either living or their songs were still held in copyright by their surviving relatives), but you could often bet on a real show-stopper or two in every one ... Read More
Rating:  - Doesn't work on my computer
I tried this download when the Unbox promotions started. I couldn't get it to play. I think my computer is just not powerful enough. I had a 1 gig MHz business machine with a lousy video card. I've recently swapped computers here in my living room and have not tried it again. I'd have to download the Unbox software again. If you don't have at least a 2 gig MHz machine with a great Video Card, I wouldn't bother with Unbox if I were you. Fun Idea, but only for the more advanced computer folks out there. ... Read More
Rating:  - The Warner Remastered Edition is the only one to get
Amazon lists some 30-odd different releases of Till the Clouds Roll By, but the newly remastered edition from Warner Home Video (ASIN: B000EBD9SA) is the only version worth buying. The cliche that you get what you pay for is definitely true in this case; all other editions available, including this one, are ripped from public domain prints of the film, with greatly varying quality in both video and audio.
As other reviewers have pointed out, the 'biopic' story is one of the hokiest that Hollywood ... Read More
Rating:  - GREAT MUSICAL - LOTS OF OLD MEMORIES
Wonderful memories from the past in this DVD. Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, and the music of Jerome Kern. What could be better? Wish they wrote songs like this now AND also have movies like this now! Great addition to anyone's collection.
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