The Harvey girls [videorecording] / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; screen play by Edmund Beloin ... [et al.] ; produced by Arthur Freed ; directed by George Sidney.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 65348 | Warner Bros.Language: English Summary language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Original language: English Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2002]Description: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0790749521
- 9780790749525
- Harvey girls (Motion picture).
- Director of photography, George Folsey ; film editor, Albert Akst ; words and music by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren.
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Main Library | DVD | MUSIC Harvey g | Available | 33111005679663 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride. Upon arriving in New Mexico, Garland discovers that her husband-to-be is the town drunk. She cuts her losses and takes a job at the local Harvey restaurant, an establishment which endeavors to bring a little civilization and class to the wide open spaces. Harvey's operation is challenged by saloon-owner John Hodiak, corrupt-judge Preston S. Foster, and local-madam Angela Lansbury. With the help of tenderfoot Ray Bolger, Garland and her fellow waitresses foil the corrupt elements in town. Prominent in the supporting cast are Cyd Charisse, Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Kenny Baker and Virginia O'Brien (whose musical numbers aren't quite as rambunctious as the contributions of the others, mainly because O'Brien was pregnant during filming). The songs are for the most part perfunctory, with the spectacular exception of the Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer's Oscar-winning "Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." The Harvey Girls is tenuously based on a more sober-sided historical volume by Samuel Hopkins Adams. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the book by Samuel Hopkins Adams and the original story by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1945.
Special features: commentary by director George Sidney; musical outtakes; singsong express audio track; "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" in stereo; theatrical trailer.
Director of photography, George Folsey ; film editor, Albert Akst ; words and music by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren.
Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien, Kenny Baker, Marjorie Main, Chill Wills.
Susan Bradley, a mail order bride, is disappointed in the man whom she was to marry, so she takes a job as a waitress in a Harvey restaurant.
Not rated.
DVD, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
In English with optional English, French, Spanish or Portuguese subtitles.