Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on May 29, 2017

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Balalaika (1939) –...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on March 5, 2014

Balalaika Directed by Reinhold Schünzel Written by Charles Bennet, Jacques Deval et al 1939/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing/Warner Archive Collection DVD Well, I guess I needed to see this to find out that Ilona Massey is no Jeanette MacDonald. This musical is OK but not more. Lydia Pavlova   read more