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Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) was a Biographical - Musical Film directed by Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli (uncredited) and George Sidney (uncredited) and produced by Arthur Freed.

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Musical Monday: Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

on Jan 30, 2023 From Comet Over Hollywood

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 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Till the Clouds Roll By ... Read full article

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When Jerome Kern was told that MGM wanted to make a movie of his life he told them that, frankly, his life had been so boring they would have trouble making an interesting movie from it. In order to add some drama, the writers invented the Hesslers and especially the hunt for Sally Hessler.
Judy Garland, who played real-life singer-dancer Marilyn Miller, was pregnant with her first daughter, Liza Minnelli. She was placed behind stacks of dishes while singing "Look For the Silver Lining", but it was not to "hide her belly" as some have thought, because moments before her number, she is shown walking over to the set and even during her song as she is standing behind the dishes, her abdomen is not disguised.
Deleted from the film were the following Jerome Kern songs: "D'Ye Love Me?" (lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach), sung by Judy Garland, footage available on the 2008 DVD from Warner Home Video (although the song's prologue, which shows Judy interacting with mimes John and Renee Arnaut, is missing the soundtrack) -- "Bill" (lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse), the first chorus sung by Lena Horne, audio available on the 1996 Rhino CD, "Lena Horne at M-G-M: Ain't It the Truth" -- "I've Told Every Little Star" (lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II), sung by Kathryn Grayson, segueing into "The Song Is You" (lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II), sung by Kathryn Grayson and Johnny Johnston, footage of this medley available on the 2008 DVD from Warner Home Video -- "Dearly Beloved" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer), sung partially by Johnn
The script for this film had to be rewritten after Jerome Kern died.
Having become popular as a nightclub songstress, Angela Lansbury's singing voice had been bypassed in her two previous MGM films - dubbed by Virginia Reece in The Harvey Girls, a sprightly Technicolor musical with Angela scampering through "Oh You Kid" (music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Johnny Mercer); and dubbed by Doreen Tryden in The Hoodlum Saint, a downbeat drama which featured two vocalized evergreens: "If I Had You" (music and lyrics by Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell and Reginald Connelly) plus 'How Am I to Know?" (music by Jack King, lyrics by Dorothy Parker). At Miss Lansbury's insistence, producer Arthur Freed, who already had overseen The Harvey Girls, allowed her, in this
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