Words and Music

Starring: Mickey Rooney Director: Norman Taurog

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Mono 1.0 English

Product Description:

Film biography of Rodgers and Hart with back-to-back showstoppers from a constellation of stars.

Plot Synopsis:

A musical biography of song and show composers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Rodgers, who penned the music, managed to live a reasonably happy and normal life, with a stable marriage and comfortable home. Lyricist Hart, by contrast, gradually grew more and more depressed, and never succeeded in finding the relationship he longed for; he died when only 47 years of age.
The film features numerous musical and choreographic interludes, performed by some of MGM's best-known stars.

Plot Keywords:

Biography | Musical | Theatrical Release

Production Notes:

• Story adaptation by Ben Feiner, Jr.
• Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ended their collaboration in 1941, only two years before Hart's death. Rodgers then began a fruitful partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he created such classics as "Oklahoma!," "Carousel," "South Pacific," and "The Sound of Music."
• Color by Technicolor.
• Songs include:
  "Where or When"
  "Lady Is a Tramp"
  "Mountain Greenery"
  "There's a Small Hotel"
  "With a Song in My Heart"
  "My Heart Stood Still"
• Musical numbers include:
  June Allyson singing "Thou Swell" from "Connecticut
  Yankee"
  Judy Garland singing "Johnny One-Note"
  Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney singing "I Wish I Were in
  Love Again"
  Lena Horne singing "Where or When" and "Lady Is a Tramp"
  Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen dancing to "Slaughter on 10th
  Avenue"
  Mel Torme singing "Blue Moon"
• The film uses an excerpt from the 1937 film "Camille," directed by George Cukor.
• Dee Turnell also appears in the film as herself.

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