'In a Little Spanish Town' | Thousands Cheer | Virginia O'Brien, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Film: Thousands Cheer, 1943
"In a Little Spanish Town"
(1926)
Music by Mabel Wayne
Lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young
Played by Bob Crosby and His Orchestra and sung Gloria DeHaven, June Allyson and Virginia O'Brien
"Rock a Bye Baby"
(1886)
Music and Lyrics by Effie I. Canning
Sung by Virginia O'Brien in the "In a Little Spanish Town" number
Starring: Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Mary Astor, John Boles, Ben Blue, Mickey Rooney
Cameo appearance: Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Marsha Hunt, Donna Reed, Margaret O'Brien, Gloria DeHaven
This film also features a very young Cyd Charisse in DON Loper's ''Tico Tico'' number as one of the chorus dancer.
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Virgina O'Brien was such a great act. I don't know why she's not more famous.
Virginia O'Brien is beautiful!!!
love love LOVE Virginia O'Brien-"no matter how you slice it its still Salome"
That grin at the end had me in stitches. XD
It amazes me how Louis B. Mayer never thought of making Virginia O'Brien a leading lady.
He offered her Annie Get Your Gun but she refused.
I love Virginia since I was 5 years old.
Proud to be 67 and a man of the Last Ceentury
Semper Fi
me, too. love june and virginia and gloria
I love how subtle and "bored" she is 😂 so amazing
Virginia O'Brien steals the number.
"Ohhhh I WHISPERED." That still kills me every time. :)
My God! The babes in this movie! Women were so gorgeous back then!
Virginia O’Brien singing a little bit of “Rock-a-bye Baby” is a reference to her doing so in the 1941 Marx Brothers film, “The Big Store”. If that wasn’t her first Hollywood appearance, it might’ve been the one that got her noticed, and led to more and bigger parts.
O'Brien also sang a snippet of "Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny" in a psychedelic film
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The closeups of Virginia give me a Hedy Lamarr vibe but I think Virginia is prettier if that's possible.
LOVE Virginia O'Brien and this song!
Virginia O'Brien sang so beautifully it's too bad there's so much "novelty" ... and sensationally beautiful...
I so need to find a Virginia O’Brian in my life…. ❤
Love Virginia O'Brien wish I could sing like her.Love you beautiful Virginia 💖🌹
Golden day of Hollywood i like June,Ginnie and Gloria :-)
I have a Mail Call Lp from a radio broadcast that was just wonderful!! Great post!!
For those wondering, yes, THOUSANDS CHEER was filmed the same time as BEST FOOT FORWARD. Not only do DeHaven and Allyson wear their BFF outfits but even more obviously, Lucille Ball does too in her THOUSANDS CHEER scene (with Frank Morgan).
I LOVE Virginia‼️
Just BEAUTIFUL...
Rip Gloria Dehaven
Oddly, Virginia O'Brien was both ahead of her time and locked into the old fashioned studio system of her heyday. Her understated comic style was much more forward-looking than the broad antics employed by performers of the 1940s, but, when her contract at M-G-M ran out in 1947, changes in the studio system suddenly ended her film shelf life.
Too bad, because she left behind a body of work, although modest, that was of a uniform good quality.
And, she wasn't too tough on the eyes, either...
Thanks for this background info on Virginia O., Keith. Much appreciated.
The backstory I've read is that Virginia O'Brien had stage fright at her theatrical debut, and left the stage in tears at the end of her performance, because the audience was laughing at her... her nerves had made the song come out in a hilarious deadpan, which the audience thought was deliberate. She took the advice people gave her, to make that her trademark, and became truly a unique performer. ("Shoot the funny to me, honey!")
What a beauty😊🥰
Those were the days when musicals had many talented stars and the good big bands to back them up. This one band was Bob Crosby's........not bad. You could always count on seeing June Allyson and Gloria DeHaven in them.
Virginia O'Brien: MGM's Deadpan Diva - The Authorized Biography has been nominated for the Richard Wall Memorial Award. The award honors English-language books of exceptional scholarship in the field of recorded or broadcast performance published or distributed in the United States. Order your copy from the publisher: www.bearmanormedia.com/virginia-obrien-mgms-deadpan-diva-softcover-edition-by-robert-strom
Reminding the boys away at war a little taste of what they're fighting to defend back home.
They are wearing the same costume they wore in Best Foot Forward and Virginia is wearing the dres Lucy wore in Du Barry Was Lady.
June is the best here, I just adore her cute smile!
I recently saw both movies for the first time and I said to myself "Hey! Wait a minute!" and sure enough, they have on the exact same outfits from the beginning number in "Best Foot Forward" as they do here (minus Gloria's Hat). I think they filmed this around the same day or week because both movies came out in 1943. In that same opening number in Best Foot Forward, there's a Brunette wearing the "Betsy Booth" overlapping double "B" Blazer that Judy Garland wore in "Life Begins for Andy Hardy".
I noticed that too. I don't know if MGM ever implemented any austerity, especially since their receipts were over the top during the war. This was probably such a simple number to film that they just wore the costumes because they were filming BFF at the same time. There was very little chance for repeat viewings in those days like we have today.
Virginia is the best troll ever. X'D
he is the diva of deadpan.
Gloria was 18 in this movie and June Allyson was 25. Gloria is a beautiful woman but June looks more like a teenager than Gloria.
Orchestra leader is Bob Crosby, if I'm correct...?
yep
This is Bob Crosby's band.
I have such a crush on O'Brien. She was the hotness.
They are wearing their costumes from BEST FOOT FORWARD! Cost-cutting EVEN at MGM!! Wartime austerity maybe?
Virginia O'Brien...didn't I see her in a Marx Bros. movie singing Rock a Bye Baby?
Yes. She appears in THE BIG STORE.
Rooney ☺
Ginnie O`Brien looks Hedy Lamarr from the Old Tirol
According to Jerry Lewis's book, Dean and Jerry had a mad affair with Miss Alyson and Miss DeHaven. Hard to figure that equation.
3:00
The intro sounds like Everly Brothers
Anyone except June Alyson!
Hah, Buster Keaton brought me here, and that's oddly appropriate
Paul Rudd as the band leader.
Bob Crosby, for crying out loud....
@@philipanderson4673 I think Kingsway was making a joke based on the theory that Paul Rudd never ages.
@@judith_thordarson well I'm an old person.. I don't know who Paul Rudd is, so the joke is lost on me...
Hasta para sonreír es fría; parece congelada. Le falta vida. Creo haberla visto antes, alguna vez, y que ése sería su estilo. Curioso. Actualmente esto sería considerado como falta de actitud. En mi opinión. Y no se enojen.
Este estilo fue muy popular en la epoca. Deberia escuchar las actuaciones en la radio el publico amava ella
Júlia Guerra Sí; aun así tiene su encanto. Y es muy linda.
June Allyson's dress and hair are so awful in this number, what were the costume designers thinking >.>
this is kitsch