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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790749525
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790749521
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 8456
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1946
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Musical western about a mail order bride who ditches her bashful suitor and joins a group of women intent on opening a remote whistle stop restaurant.Running Time: 102 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 012569534827
Amazon.com:
Sometimes lively, sometimes pokey, this Technicolor MGM musical inspires mixed feelings in aficionados of the form--except on one point. No viewer will question why 'On the Atchison, Topeka, & the Santa Fe' won the best song Oscar for 1946. This is a brilliant, inventive song given an epic staging. Director George Sidney pulls out all the stops for this wowser--even Marjorie Main sings, an eardrum-testing sound. The real-life Harvey Girls were waitresses imported to the far-flung Fred Harvey Hotels, civilizing oases along the railroad lines out west. The fictional Harvey Girls is set in Sandrock, where the traveling waitresses are joined by a sort of mail-order bride (Judy Garland) whose prospective husband is a bust--he's a roughhewn rancher played by Chill Wills. Garland is in fine spunky form; unfortunately, her romance is with John Hodiak (as the owner of a dance hall), that uninspiring World War II-era lead. The film's other great Johnny Mercer-Harry Warren song is the unexpectedly melancholy 'It's a Great Big World,' performed in a lovely trio by Garland, Virginia O'Brien, and the young Cyd Charisse. The tall, deadpan O'Brien also does a comic take on 'The Wild, Wild West' while shoeing a horse. With kewpie-faced Angela Lansbury as a bespangled dance-hall gal and Ray Bolger high-stepping through a dance solo, there are enough good people on board to keep the wheels a-turning 'all the way to Californ-eye-yay.' --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Korina
If you love Judy Garland and old musical romances this is the perfect movie for you.
Rating: - Judy! Judy! Judy!
There was never a more talented actress than Judy Garland! During the 40's when very few actresses could hold a picture on their own shoulders, the entire weight of THE HARVEY GIRLS was put on Judy's shoulders. She was probably the only actress to carry a picture and outshine every other person in the movie. John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury and Ray Bolger co-star, and although they give great performances, they are dim compared to Judy's. She just shines!
THE HARVEY GIRLS is mostly noted for it's ... Read More
Rating:  - A TREAT FOR FANS OF JUDY GARLAND AND ANGELA LANSBURY
Movies often have a long history BEFORE the cameras roll. "THE HARVEY GIRLS" was originally envisioned as a straight Western, with the likes of Lana Turner (a thorn in Judy Garland's side at MGM), Joan Crawford, and Clark Gable. It was turned around as a musical; similar in its Americana, homespun/folsky spirit to Rodgers & Hammerstein's "OKLAHOMA!" With Judy Garland in, Clark Gable was OUT as her love interest. Because Judy had sung the ballad "You Made Me Love You" to Gable's photo in "BROADWAY ... Read More
Rating: - Oldies but goodies!!
Absolutely loved it !! I love any movie with Judy Garland in it!
Rating: - The Harvey Girls
A must see for any Judy Garland fan. Home of The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - a classic!!
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