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The Harvey Girls |  | Director: George Sidney
Actors: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
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Rating:  60 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: 65348
ISBN: 0790749521
UPC: 012569534827
EAN: 9780790749525
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1946
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| • | 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 Rating: NR Age: 012569534827 UPC: 012569534827 Manufacturer No: 65348 |
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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
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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
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 Classic November 1, 2009
Sam "Mayday" Malone (Rohan)
Most know Judy Garland as a singing sensation, but her comedic abilities are put on display to great effect in this film. The opening sequence where she sings on the train "as the evening sun goes down" is breathtaking. Granted the male lead isn't too great, the rest of the cast does well. My favorite line will always be:
"They call me Tex"
-"where are you from?"
"Massachusetts"
From The Golden Age Of Movies October 17, 2009
pajrr (NJ)
A great old movie from the golden years of movie making. 100's of people choreographed in dance scenes. Something not done anymore. They don't make movies like this anymore.
Movie I loved as a girl September 4, 2009
Debbie Critchfield (Oakley, Idaho)
You hear the saying,"they don't make movies like this anymore", well, they don't! I loved this movie as a young girl and watching it again reminded me why. Firstly, the actors...of course Judy Garland but,come on, Angela Lansbury as a young woman...what a beauty! Great songs, beautiful costumes and a good,clean story. My teenage kids caught some of it as I was watching and poked relentess fun at it, BUT they sure stayed in the room until it was over!!
If you love old movies and haven't seen this, it's a must to add to your list. You can't go wrong with the "Harvey Girls".
Awesome video May 15, 2009
April (UT)
I absolutely love this movie and I was very impressed with how fast it arrived as well.
Harvey Girls April 17, 2009
June M. Hirsch (Florida)
Received DVD in good condition and with fast delivery. It is an old picture but I have always enjoyed it. Many good stars were in the picture and good songs.
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