Judy Garland: 7-Film Collection (Import)

FOR ME AND MY GALAfter a late-night cup of coffee, vaudevillians Jo Hayden and Harry Palmer sit at a piano and work a song. Moments later, Jo realises she’s found exactly what she wasn’t looking for: a partner. And with JUDY GARLAND as Jo and GENE KELLY as Harry, the partnership isn’t just ideal. It’s a film fan’s dream come true. Kelly debuts and Garland dazzles in this Busby Berkeley-directed tale of a song-and-dance pair who take on tank towns, tough times and World War I while struggling for show-biz success. A hit parade of era tunes paces the film, including the wowser Ballin’ the Jack and the sweetly harmonised title tune. Bursting with vitality and old-fashioned charm, For Me and My Gal is for the ages.THE HARVEY GIRLSVittles, songs and dance are amply ladeled out when JUDY GARLAND headlines The Harvey Girls, a joyous musical slice of Americana celebrating the restaurants that brought extra helpings of civilisation to Old West rail passengers. Highlights include Garland holding saloon patrons at jittery gun-point to retrieve stolen beef-steaks, RAY BOLGER’S loose-limbed comic hoof-ing, VIRGINIA O’BRIEN’S sure-shot comic timing, ANGELA LANSBURY’S stylish wickedness as a saloon singer and the On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe romp (nabbing it the 1946 Best Song Academy Award®) that’s “deservedly famous, one of the most triumphant sequences in screen-musical history” (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). All aboard!IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIMEIn the Good Old Summertime – a tale of squabbling music-shop clerks who don’t know they’re romantic pen pals – shares a celebrated movie lineage that includes James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail. In between those two, JUDY GARLAND and VAN JOHNSON had mail plus gold old tunes evoking an era of strawboaters and silvery moons.Sparked by Garland’s comedic zest and musical appeal, this confection is “one of the sweetest, most unpretentious entertainments of 1949” (Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical). It’s also a nostalgic farewell and a sunny hello. BUSTER KEATON appears in his final film for the studio he first joined in 1928. And LIZA MINNELLI, all of 18 months young, makes her debut in the finale.LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDYIt’s almost time for the big Christmas Dance, and Andy Hardy has a new tuxedo and opera hat to wear to the event and a $20 jalopy to take him there. Now all he needs is a date. Problem is Andy has two gorgeous dates lined up. And a third, a new girl next door named Betsy, is also aching to go.MICKEY ROONEY plays ball-of-fire Andy for the fourth of 17 times (16 features, one short). JUDY GARLAND (who also sings three tunes) makes her first of a series of appearances as bright, level-headed Betsy Booth. ANN RUTHERFORD reprises her role as Andy’s steady gal Polly. And LANA TURNER plays high-maintenance-but-worth-it Cynthia. Which of the three girls goes to the dance? Find out when Love Finds Andy Hardy.A STAR IS...

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