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Till The Clouds Roll By Details

1946 Certificate U
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This large-scale Technicolor musical is one of those over-the-top, maximalistic productions that the Golden Age of the Studio System was famous for! Based on the life and times of composer Jerome Kern, TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY features an all-star cast which includes the great crooner Frank Sinatra, the legendary musical starlet .. Read more

Starring Judy Garland, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Kathryn Grayson
Director Richard Whorf
Genres Music/Musical

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Till The Clouds Roll By

This large-scale Technicolor musical is one of those over-the-top, maximalistic productions that the Golden Age of the Studio System was famous for! Based on the life and times of composer Jerome Kern, TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY features an all-star cast which includes the great crooner Frank Sinatra, the legendary musical starlet Judy Garland, and the notoriously beautiful Lena Horne. And of course, it features many of the hit tunes of the era.

Starring Judy Garland, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra
Director Richard Whorf
Studio EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 15 mins
Certificate Certificate U
Genres Music/Musical
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 21 Oct 2002
Production year: 1946
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (2) of Till The Clouds Roll By

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    MGM's lush tribute to Jerome Kern was intended as a straightforward biography, but Kern's death in 1945 turned this biopic into a most moving celebration, as the studio's full roster of stars perform the composer's greatest numbers, climaxing with a ridiculously boyish looking Frank Sinatra crooning Ol' Man River. The film includes a potted version of Show Boat, with Lena Horne as Julie, and features some marvellous highlights, including a sequence featuring Judy Garland as Broadway star Marilyn Miller, directed by Garland's then husband Vincente Minnelli. The dramatic stuff, though, is heavily handled by former actor Richard Whorf, and Robert Walker is not ideally cast as Kern, though his moments with pal Van Heflin and daughter Lucille Bremer are occasionally touching. Watch this for the MGM talent on display, and the dazzling array of production numbers. Make tea during the plot.

    • Radio Times
  • 2 stars out of 4

    Better-than-average biopic with better-than-average tunes and stars.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    If you?re a Hollywood musical movie fan this may be one you might like to take a look at? I found it entertaining enough, though in between the singing and dance routines the interest in the story, for me, dropped rapidly, very slow pace. The copy from master to DVD was not brilliant but in saying that it?s worth hanging in there just to see baby faced Frank Sanatra singing ?Old man river? at the end.

    I rate it 5-10

      • Ken#14 from WEST BROMWICH
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    • Till The Clouds Roll By
      This large-scale Technicolor musical is one of those over-the-top, maximalistic productions that the Golden Age of the Studio System was famous for! Based on the life and times of composer Jerome Kern, TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY features an all-star cast which includes the great crooner Frank Sinatra, ...