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Babes in Arms (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1939 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Busby Berkeley

Written By:
Jack McGowan
Kay Van Riper

Actors:
Mickey Rooney ..... Mickey Moran
Judy Garland ..... Patsy Barton
Charles Winninger ..... Joe Moran
Guy Kibbee ..... Judge John Black
June Preisser ..... Rosalie Essex
Grace Hayes ..... Florrie Moran
Betty Jaynes ..... Molly Moran
Douglas McPhail ..... Don Brice
Rand Brooks ..... Jeff Steele
Leni Lynn ..... Dody Martin
Johnny Sheffield ..... Bobs
Henry Hull ..... Maddox
Barnett Parker ..... William Bartlett
Ann Shoemaker ..... Mrs. Barton
Margaret Hamilton ..... Martha Steele

Synopsis:

Mickey Moran was born in 1921 to Joe and Florrie Moran, popular and well known vaudevillians. Mickey, now in his late teens, is living in an era when vaudeville is dead as an entertainment genre. Joe and Florrie and their former vaudeville colleagues hope that their children will take up a more practical career. With vaudeville blood in their veins, Mickey and his singer girlfriend Patsy Barton - also an offspring of a vaudevillian, Lillian Barton - still dream of a career in show business. When Joe and Florrie and their former vaudeville colleagues decide to resurrect their careers by financing a traveling vaudeville show of their own, their children want in. But the parents feel that the kids' style of entertainment doesn't fit in with the old vaudeville acts. So Mickey decides to write and produce his own show featuring Patsy, himself and their friends. Standing in his way is local busybody Martha Steele, who wants the kids to return to school rather than waste their life on an unpractical career like show business. And Mickey and Patsy's collective dream may not come to pass because of Rosalie Essex, a former child movie star known as Baby Rosalie who is trying to mount a comeback of her own. She is willing to finance Mickey's project for the lead role - Patsy's role. Patsy feels that Rosalie is not only moving in on her professional big break, but also her role as Mickey's girlfriend.

Advertised as a sort of sequel to MGM's Babes in Arms (1939), Babes on Broadway reunites the two stars of the earlier film: Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Rooney is the guiding force of a group of young showbiz hopefuls who are trying to make it on Broadway. When things look darkest, he goes into his 'Say, kids!' routine, rousing his companions to put on their own show. Highlights include a sequence in which Rooney and Garland go through a series of imitations of past theatrical greats. As cute and perky as Garland is, she has nothing on the 'Carmen Miranda' takeoff performed--in full makeup and platform shoes--by the ubiquitous Rooney. Babes on Broadway ends with a typically overproduced production number stage by the film's director, the immortal Busby Berkeley.

Mickey Moran, a talented singer and musician, son of a veteran from the show business. Mickey has a partner, Patsi Barton, a pretty girl and also a very talented singer. One day, a big opportunity arrives for Mickey, a big contract to set up his own show. However, things don't go well, and in order to avoid being sent to a work farm, he'll improvise a show in the country, despite the awful weather conditions. Patsi's in love with Mickey, he loves her too, but for him the show must go on, and his big dream maybe will come true: formally stage his play in a big scenario, with a huge production.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 21 December, 2010.

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