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Picture Judy Garland in "Annie Get Your Gun" or Lena Horne in "Showboat". This film distinguishes itself from the previous two installments by featuring rare outtakes of great musical productions. Song and dance sequences were often cut from finished films to lessen the running time or on a producer's whim. These newly discovered snippets include Horne's delicious rendition of "Ain't it the Truth," which was cut from "Cabin in the Sky," and Cyd Charisse belting "Two Faced Woman", which was bumped from "The Band Wagon" so that Joan Crawford could perform it in another film -- in blackface! These lost gems, alternate song versions, and deleted dance numbers show what a favorite film might have been like. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Cyd Charisse
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Debbie Reynolds
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Heaven & Earth (1993)
Three Little Words (1950)
Lena Horne
USA
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
June Allyson
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Jeanette MacDonald
USA
Best movies:
San Francisco (1936)
One Hour with You (1932)
The Merry Widow (1934)
Gene Kelly
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Howard Keel
USA
Best movies:
Deep in My Heart (1954)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Show Boat (1951)
Esther Williams
USA
Best movies:
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Mickey Rooney
USA
Best movies:
Captains Courageous (1937)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Marlene Dietrich
German Empire
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Nanette Fabray
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Ray McDonald
USA
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Till the Clouds Roll by (1946)
Babes on Broadway (1941)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Harry James
USA
Best movies:
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Syncopation (1942)
Douglas McPhail (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Test Pilot (1938)
San Francisco (1936)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Betty Garrett (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
On the Town (1949)
The Long Way Home (1998) (TV movie)
Clinton Sundberg (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Easter Parade (1948)
Xavier Cugat (a.f.)
Spain
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
George K. Arthur (a.f.)
UK
Best movies:
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Show People (1928)
Frances Williams (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Hollywood Party (1934)
Joseph I. Breen (a.f.)
USA