Lovely to look at [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; screen play by George Wells and Harry Ruby ; based on the musical comedy "Roberta," from the novel by Alice Duer Miller ; book and lyrics by Otto A. Harbach ; music by Jerome Kern ; produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
Material type:
FilmSeries: Archive collectionPublication details: [Culver City, CA]: Turner Entertainment Co.; Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2010.Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 inGenre/Form: Production credits: - Additional dialogue by Andrew Solt ; choreography by Hermes Pan ; musical direction, Carmen Dragon and Saul Chaplin ; vocal arrangements, Robert Tucker ; orchestrations by Leo Arnaud.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the property and refilmed it under the title Lovely to Look At. Inheriting one-half of a Parisian dress salon from his late aunt, Red Skelton travels to France with his showbiz friends Howard Keel and Gower Champion. The threesome hopes to convince the owners of the other half of the salon to sell their share so that Skelton, Keel and Champion can finance a Broadway show. Meeting Skelton's "partners" Kathryn Grayson and Marge Champion, the three Americans discover that the salon is all but broke, so they pool their resources and wits to make the establishment a winning proposition. The plot thickens as more and more characters are added to the storyline, including stagestruck gendarme Kurt Kaznar and chorus girl Ann Miller. Songs retained from the original Jerome Kern Broadway score for Roberta include "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," "I Won't Dance" and, of course, "Lovely to Look At." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD release of the 1952 motion picture.
Additional dialogue by Andrew Solt ; choreography by Hermes Pan ; musical direction, Carmen Dragon and Saul Chaplin ; vocal arrangements, Robert Tucker ; orchestrations by Leo Arnaud.
Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion, Ann Miller ... [et al.].
This season in Paris, Red is all the rage! Red Skelton headlines a joyful Technicolor remake of Roberta as a New York producer who inherits a failing Parisian fashion house. His partners are Howard Keel and Gower Champion and the lovelies they look at are Kathyrn Grayson, Ann Miller and Marge Champion. Which means the zippy story (everyone falls in love with everyone else as they scramble to save the salon) is in masterful hands.
Not rated.
DVD format; Dolby Digital.