The first time I saw the My Forgotten Man number, I cried my eyes out. My father introduced me to these movies when I was about 8/9 and this one has stayed with me all this time - I’m 66 soon and every time I have seen it, it maybe around 10 times now, I still feel a thrill and a melancholic feeling that I’m not watching it with my dad.
@@joycie014 The forgotten man number is so impactful! Petting in the park was supposed to be the original ending but the forgotten man number was so powerful that they changed it. Warner archives puts it out on DVD.
SO many great numbers in that one. Shadow Waltz, Forgotten Man, Pettin' in the Park &, of course, We're in the Money !! It's a really cracking script too ! (Great BB numbers in Dames too, but the story is rubbish).
@@Muswell like most of the musicals back then. The story was only the means to an end. Boy gets girl, boy loses girl, then boy gets her back and they all lived happily ever after. 😁
I nominate Eleanor Powell's 'Born to Dance' (1936). It confirmed the star power of Hollywood's unique solo choreographer-dancer and convinced MGM to put everything it had got behind musicals, leading to 20 years of classic productions.
3 Fred Astaire movies? No Gold Diggers of 1933?, No Footlight Parade?, No Broadway Melody of 1936?, No Dames? Wizard of Oz was more a children fantasy rather than a musical movie, and Fred Astaire movies were more vehicles for him and Ginger Rogers, showing their talent for dancing
@@FilmSnobReviews And it's not just those fantastic musical numbers; the movie itself is quite good with some great pre-code zingers. eg. As long as there are streets you'll have a job.
The Wizard of Oz is a difficult film to categorise as a musical in comparison to most musicals. If you ask anyone to name any other song other than Somewhere Over the Rainbow, they would be hard pressed to name it. Maybe Follow the Yellow Brick Road and If I Only Had A Brain could come to mind and that’s it for me. I’m aware that at least one number with Ray Bolger and Judy was cut, which involved dancing, but I can’t think of any other numbers that had a lot of dancing either, which is usually one of the criteria to classify a movie as a musical. If you look at the other films you listed, it’s lacking in song and dance. By the way, I love all your other choices, but Golddiggers of 1933 could easily fit in there. Just my opinion.😁
@@lynnegreen2002 I’m sure we’re not the only ones. Spooky, isn’t it? Especially the interest in classic musicals. I live in a small coastal fishing village in rural Victoria, Australia. If you tell me that you do too, I’m not leaving the house again! 😳😆
I watched your clips from 30s to 2010s. Beautifully and subtly made! Thank you. It’d be one round when you make 2020s, amazing. These are my tops. The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade, A Star is Born, The Sound of Music, All That Jazz, Fame, Evita, Dancer in the Dark and La La Land. How do you think?
This is a poor choice - both Glen Miller’s ‘In the Mood’ and ‘Wizard of Oz’ are late 1930s and have that Big Band Jazz sound, so different from the 1930s. Also this is typically Hollywood biased - Britain produced some great musicals during the 1930’s, usually starring Jessie Matthews, Gracie Fields or George Formby.
I mean it’s my list so yeah...it’s biased. How about you recommend some great films to enlighten us on what we missed out on instead of stating that we made a poor choice. The former is far more helpful.