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title: "Small Town Girl"
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# Small Town Girl

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## Description

Small Town Girl

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Musicals & Performing Arts/Musicals/General
- **Format:** NTSC
- **Contributor:** Farley Granger, Jane Powell, Robert Keith, Leslie Kardos, S.Z. Sakall, Ann Miller
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 35 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love the classics
*by E***C on August 31, 2024*

This movie is worth it. No inuendo or any of the garbage they make now but good, clean, and funny.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love this movie!
*by E***L on August 23, 2024*

DVD works great!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great dance numbers in this Jane Powell musical.
*by J***F on December 29, 2019*

“Small Town Girl” is not one of the best known Jane Powell movies, and in fact is known now primarily for co-stars Bobby Van’s unique hopping dance and Ann Miller’s “I’ve Gotta Hear That Beat”, both great numbers. One reason for this is that Jane herself was not given very strong material to sing by composers Nicholas Brodszky and Leo Robin. There’s no “It’s a Most Unusual Day” here, just the kinds of songs that are okay within the film but often forgotten afterward. Jane had an operetta soprano’s voice, a style almost totally unknown today. This is why she often sang repertoire associated with Jeanette MacDonald, who actually befriended and helped her after they did “Three Daring Daughters” together. Her films often included her singing opera arias.“Fine, Fine, Fine”,a song-and-dance number with Bobby Van is her only uptempo song here. Her two ballads are operetta-tinged and while nice, are no show-stoppers. In fact, all of Jane’s songs are rather subdued, including the two religious pieces that open and close the film. Add to this a plot so lightweight and rather unbelievable - to put it mildly, even for a musical of this period - that you forget trying to make sense of it. It’s this lack of a really strong presence by Jane that makes it less than one of her hits like “A Date With Judy”. Powell herself said she did not remember much about making the film because she was pregnant and sick most of the time.Still, the film has many things to recommend it. MGM gave it a good cast. Farley Grainger is a spoiled rich boy from New York (Richard Belrow Livingston III). He works perfectly because he stands out so much from the wholesome small town folk. (In the film, he’s sentenced to 30 days in the town jail for speeding and contempt of court). It’s actually interesting to see him in a light comedy, not his usual venue. S.Z. Sakall does his usual Hungarian grandfather routine as Papa Eric Schlemmer, something I always enjoy. He was most often in Warner Brothers films including “Casablanca”, “Christmas In Connecticut” and three of Doris Day’s early musicals. He’s funny here scheming to make sure his grandson Ludwig ( Bobby Van) marries Cindy Kimball (Powell).Cindy’s parents are played by Robert Keith (Doris Day’s father in “Young At Heart”) and Fay Wray (immortal as Ann Darrow in the original “King Kong). Their roles are small but effective. Keith gets to do more as a stern, no-nonsense judge, while Wray’s role is little more than to be sweet, mostly because the film required a mother’s presence. Grainger’s mother is played by Billie Burke, who adds her usual airy and slightly balmy presence and in a party scene, gets to wear a pink and lavender gown that could have come out of the Good Witch Glinda’s closet.The film’s stars in terms of the musical numbers are Ann Miller and Bobby Van. Miller was an established star with over thirty films by this time including “On the Town”. She is ideally cast as a vain Broadway dancer, which enables the film to showcase her in big production numbers. In the early fifties it was the vogue to have some kind of tropical dance number and here it’s “My Gaucho”, in an Argentine rather than the usual Caribbean setting. But her real showstopper is “I’ve Gotta Hear That Beat”, in which she dances with a surrealistic orchestra made up of only instruments and hands. The choreography in the film was all by Busby Berkeley, who was a natural for coming up with ideas like that.Finally there’s young Bobby Van, who was just breaking out in this, his third film. He’s very personable here as a likeable small town boy who can really dance. He should have been born a little earlier and could have been the equal of Ray McDonald in the forties. Both had their careers cut short by changing times. He has two solo dance numbers. The first, “Take Me To Broadway” is exuberant and athletic, with him dancing on virtually every surface in the general store where he works.. It is a fantastic dance in its own right and would be better known if it wasn’t for his second dance. This dance is often misidentified as “Take Me To Broadway”. Indeed, he does sing that phrase at the very end as a callback, but it has entirely different, almost cartoon-like music. Often referred to as “the pogo stick dance” or some variation, he simply jumps for joy around town interacting with various groups of people. There’s nothing I know of like it and i’m glad it got a significant boost in “That’s Entertainment II” (1976).There’s so much to enjoy here that the film’s pluses outweigh its minuses, and if you like this sort of thing, you’ll have a good time watching it.

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