The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection (Babes in Arms / Babes on Broadway / Girl Crazy /...

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	The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection (Babes in Arms / Babes on Broadway / Girl Crazy / Strike Up the ... Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland WARNER HOME VIDEO, 2007 average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

simply amazing packaging...art meets commerce!

this review is NOT of the movies...
although they are classics, Judy is her amazing self and Mickey Rooney is as Cary Grant once said "The most talented actor in all the movies"...this review is of the DVD set...
WOW WOW WOW
beautiful remastered films.
amazing introductions from Mickey Rooney himself!!!!
a bonus disc with a 40 minute interview with Mickey
a best of Judy Garland performances from the movies
a trailer history of the two of them 30 minutes!
a set of glorious promo pix...stunningly reproduced
a hard bound book with great pictures once again produced to the quality of any expensive art book...
plus other bonus features on the DVDs for each movie

This set was put together by someone who LOVES movies, Loves Judy and Mickey and presents this as a TREASURE ...not some flimsy cheap (talking about YOU Universal)throw away of old movies to be gotten out quick and dirty. PLEASE reward the caring people at WB by buying this and get them as gifts...they are CLASS CLASS CLASS all 1st!

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Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland DVD SET
This is a set of wonderful Mickey & Judy set of movies. I was almost too
young to remember these films when they first came out. These were real
teen movies with nothing but real talent. Movies with just enough musical
numbers thrown in to make them really enjoyable. Now days when a musical is made its much too much music. I think thats why musicals don't go over
today like they did back then. Mickey Rooney was and is a genious and he
has a lot of fond memories to look back on. And I never realized how great Judy Garland was as a teenager. If she never made another movie after Girl Crazy she would have done her job. But after Meet Me In St. Louis, the rest is history. I dearly love this set of DVD's

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oldies but goodies

i didn't get to see these film and i am a judy fan. i now understand why they worked so well together. i am very pleased to have this dvd in my collection. The Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland Collection (Babes in Arms / Babes on Broadway / Girl Crazy / Strike Up the Band)

Wow!! What a beautiful collection.

So many memories and so much fun to watch all the dancing and singing by these two veterans of show biz. I highly recommend this Rooney/Garland DVD set. Especially loved all the photos that were included. Great for my Scrapbook.

Great Package, Commentary, Not So Much

It's great to have the Mickey Rooney/ Judy Garland musicals finally on DVD in such pristine transfers. Judy and Mickey shine in glorious black and white. Could two people have any more talent, although some might say Mickey is a little "too talented" and could "be a bit much". He can wear me out ( or maybe down) with his manic energy,his impersonations, his dancing, his clowning and his tendency toward the maudlin. Judy, however. is as fresh and relevant as if the movies were made today. Because she was always so invested in her material and was such a gifted artist, whatever she's doing on screen feels real and urgent, thus never dated or wedded to a particlar period style. She pulses with authentic life.
The package for the movies is great, particularly the book and the disc of extras which includes a compilation of musical numbers from Judy's films, a great bonus for Garland fans.
I'm giving the box set 4 stars instead of 5 because of John Fricke's commentaries on Babes in Arms and Girl Crazy. Fricke has made a cottage industry of being a chronicler of Garland's career and rescuing her legacy from the biographers who have focused on the heartbreak and dysfunction of her life. Certainly hers was one of the great stories of show business and she was arguably, as Fricke dubs her in one of his bios of Garland, The World's Greatest Entertainer. Fricke is justly adoring of Garland and doesn't subsitute emotion for facts. However at times, one would almost think he is an MGM flack as he breathlessly recites the facts of Judy's career (facts that any fan would know my heart). There's never any critical stance or personal perspective just a glowing, hagiography of Garland and Rooney and too much rote info about the studio players and the films' creators. Although there are some interesting ( always laudatory) Rooney, Garland anecdotes, most of what he tells us could be found in any film encyclopedia.
An absoulutely stunning segment occurs during his comments on the minstrel number in Babes in Arms. It's certainly safe to say that any modern audience who has never seen a black face number will be in for a rude shock. The racism is jaw dropping and needless to say, of its time. Fricke discusses it in the most matter of fact , mundane manner, never commenting on the degrading aspects of it or what happened to the number over the years it was shown on television or how Garland, a noted liberal, felt, in retrospect, about doing it . What impact did it have on black audiences at the time, did the NAACP have any comments, etc., etc. Instead of answering any of these questions, Fricke gives us biographies of Stephen Foster and Eddie Leonard(???)!!!! Is he kidding?? An egregious omission!!

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