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- Опубліковано 5 кві 2017
- Varsity Show (1937) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #VarsityShow
A Warner Bros. musical classic from the 1930s, Varsity Show is a hilarious romp that follows the students of "Winfield College" as they battle their facility advisor while putting on a variety show. Famed bandleader of the era Fred Waring (and his Pennsylvanians) joins leading man Dick Powell and screen beauty Rosemary Lane, with great songs from composer Richard Whiting and lyricist Johnny Mercer. The film's elaborate finale earned an Academy Award nomination for the legendary Busby Berkeley's incomparable dance direction.
Directed By William Keighley
Starring Dick Powell, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Ted Healy
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That baton twirler is something else! She's doing one-arm cartwheels while twirling the baton. Incredible athleticism.
Busby Berkeley`s choreography was quite unconventional and revolutionary which none of his predecessors had never imagined. He was the real choreographer.
Busby Berkeley turned the chorus line into an art form. Love his work!
I just adore these old films with no sex or violence, just beautiful singing and spectacular choreography.
yes, this was before the bolsheviks completely infiltrated Hollywood.
this was prior to ww2 jewish bolshevism taking over the world.
If I were alive during the Depression I would have seen this movie so many times. Well, as many times as I could afford.
I mean HOW did they do this? Just incredible.
Is the WHOLE clip in reverse? Dozens of women catch the perfectly-aimed cards thrown by the men; the men & women walk backwards downstairs with ease; bandleader defies gravity with ease backwards up stairs! Ingenious blending with the music!
@sir poopalot Maybe the "stairs" were really an "inclined ramp" painted to look like stairs. And an elevated camera angle could also help "with the illusion of stairs". (But, who knows. We can't ask anyone, they're all dead.)
@@waynewhitson6914 If you watch carefully how skirts and trousers move, you can see, that the walking backwards up the stairs is also reversed - Berkley used all kind of tricks very impressively ......
kkuugglleesskkooeerr Thank you for that. It makes sense. I never would have thought about it. 👍🥰
Catching cards, like walking backward up stairs, is a reversal. They were actually throwing the cards.
For someone with ocd this might just be the most satisfying thing I’ve watched!
Hahaha
A girl in third row drops her card and the girl next to her picks it up for her in 0:51. You're welcome.
I love your comment! 👍
劉木 Wish I saw that. Now I must go back ! 😊
I know, right.. I had to count EVERY dancer! 168 dancers (88 women & 80 men). Plus the band.
what talent and fitness breathtaking how is all this never shown its like it is all hidden away
These musicals were wonderful and amazing. I'm surprised they aren't better known.
I'd like to send this to a few schools see if they could even come close to this!
Not likely 😁.
If they don't show their underwear, they won't do it
Hahahahaaaaa er no!
Ha! At :51, one of the girls in the middle drops her card and another one picks it up for her. The director probably figured the movie audience wouldn't notice so they didn't do it again.
What makes me laugh is she continues to move her hands an arms as if she were still holding the card!
@@OrganMusicYT You can always see a few mistakes like this in big production numbers, particularly if you watch them more than once. People trip, bump into each other, fall down, get hit by props, drop stuff, and so on.
Nice catch!
Ha, I would have never caught that, if you hadn’t said something. Yep, 3rd. row up. That would have been me😆.
They already agreed what to do in situations like that. "The show must go on!"
Amazing talent.
Remarkable dancing from this movie scene. Thanks also to Eleanor Powell.❤🎉
I wanna go back in time,
Loving this Busby Berkeley stuff, I'll try to find DVD'S on these musicals, so entertaining!
WonderfuL‼️‼️‼️
Just so wholesome and enjoyable!
I wonder how long this dance took to perfect..
There are some shots in this sequence that the most professional folks in Hollywood still can't figure out how they did them.
What a great world back then. If evolution is true, then the world has reached its pinnacle and is beginning to retreat.
Ah yes, when a woman’s greatest contribution to academia was twirling a baton and when people of color literally did not exist…
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Me acordé de la comedia musical "Foots Light Parade" de James Cagney Ojalá y puedan subirla a UA-cam
Beautiful
Awesome! wonder l why it wasn't included on 2006 Warner's bugsy Berkley disc. The reverse throwin effect of the ⬛ would be sort of repeated with circles in the finale of "the gang's all here" thanks for posting.
I'd wondered that myself. There's also some cool numbers they never included from In Caliente.
The band leader with the baton was a little scary with it. I wouldn't have wanted to walk down those stair backwards
Her front flips were so good
Her side view backflips were everything!!!!
@@ReggieTime I wonder what her shoulder felt like 15 years after this?
@@lattebudful Totally wonder the same😁
♡ I love such sweetness :)
Odd; Not only is this edited from the movie available - but the soundtrack is an entirely different version!
Hooray !!!!!!
Wonderful!!
Imagine any of today's "$tars" with this talent ... not likely.
Great show!
The choreography and music beautifully blended together everthing fits.. Can anyone who knows about Carole Landis and what she looked like tell me if she is at 1:10 &1:11 throwing the football what form for a women in 1937 throwing a football she had a better form even then the guy or the last girl with glasses. I am fascinated with Carole her story is both fascinating inspiring but yet tragic. This was her first movie a bit part but motion picture stars have to start somewhere. She became famous in 1 million B.C. She even dated Busby Berkeley. I will always have a crush on her eventhough she has been gone from earth since 1948. Carole Landis darling rest in eternal peace.
It would be so very. Nice if they could put this beautifully wonderfully made musical into coloured DVD & sale them at Walmart 🙏🙏🤗😍💃💃🙏🙏
That is her. She was very athletic and in fact tried to start a girl's football team in high school but the principal squelched that idea.
This is the true art!
Amazing..
They TRULY don't make 'em like that any more. Today they would probably cheat and use computer graphics!
Look at what was possible before CGI.
But they def had their camera tricks!
@@ReggieTime early days, pioneers, amazing results.
Am not against green screen approaches, but much can be achieved without it. Check out 2001 for some of the best effects ever!
@@thoughtfortheday7811 👍
I'm surprised they didn't wipe all the scuff marks off the shiny, mirrored floor before they started a new shot.
Much of it was projected backwards.
볼때마다 어떻게 촬영했는지 궁금해짐
Did anyone notice the goof? Third row from the bottom, 4th woman from the left at about the 50 second mark. She drops her square as she's rotating it and then she scrambles to pick it up.
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It's like Chinese college
💙💛💙💛
They should have done Tufts and Harvard.
In some spots, it rather looks like Busby was straining for some new ideas.
WHO WAS THAT LEADING LADY DANCER/GYMNAST!!!!!
1968
Феерично
I wonder how much money the cost to make?
Best
think they re trying to tell us something, don t you!! 😆
Espantoso muy militar
Сколько дурости
A time when we could have clean, preppy all-white casts. No lawsuits or forced token minorities. Beautiful times.
Buck and Bubbles?
John 14:30 "Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me."
and this is what it looks like, vanity!
I much prefer the early 30s Vitaphone Orchestra and Berkely numbers.This is ok but lacks something.
A bigger budget?
Composer Harry Warren said that the popularity of the Berkeley musicals were waning (possibly because of your explanation), and Warners was indeed cutting back budgets on musicals.
I like Paramount's orchestra just as much when they were playing up-tempo tunes. An example: the "One Hour With You" medley in the Internet Archive Vitaphone disc collection.
@@moldyoldie7888 I quite agree and love that One Hour With You selection you mention. It's also very good in International House too.
I saw "International House" at Palo Alto's Stanford Theater years ago. I best remember that WC Fields portrayed himself as a drunkard - funny. Another good Paramount Orch. performance is in "College Rhythm", the number "Take a Number from one to ten", which is on UA-cam. Fidelity isn't the greatest.
This where Hitler Goebbels and Speer got thie ideas for spectacle from. Goebbels was a mad film buff!
Opposite. Germans copied the Americans had their own, similar movie spectacles.
I wonder if he worked for Hitler too
Nope, but you can spot Berkeley's influence not just in the work of Leni Reifenstahl (both her and Goebbels being fans), but also in German musicals from the period.The big production number for 'Ich brauche keine Millionen' (a song ripped off for the theme tune of The Muppet Show) is a classic example of that. Some of his musicals were banned in Germany for the same reasons they wouldn't have been been released uncut after the Hays Code, but he was popular among directors who could get import copies of them.
Европа на пороге второй мировой войны, голодные, нищие! А Америка с жиру бесится! И так всегда! Молодцы, что могу сказать, КАЖДОМУ СВОЕ!
All flash and no pan. The staging was OK but the music was really second or third rate. Warner Bros and Berkeley really let the audience down with this stinker.
I reckon that was how Warner lost out to RKO and MGM in musicals as the Thirties moved forward from Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler and Berkeley. It wasn't only that they worked the '42nd St' formula too hard; Jack Warner was too cheap to buy the very best Songbook-era composers, who could write hot or sweet with equal inspiration. A musical needs hits more than a well-constructed scenario.
For example: Metro persuaded Cole Porter to come away from Broadway by offering him $70,000 for seven songs in 'Born to Dance'. Even before it came out, they upped the ante to $100,000 for his next score. Fred and Ginger had Kern and Fields, the Gershwins and Irving Berlin writing for them.
WB's tunesmiths were more journeyman. Not saying that is true of Warren and Dubin or Mercer in general, but Harry was becoming tired of Hollywood- he yearned to write sacred music- and Johnny was a beginner. Korngold was Jack Warner's idea of a composer: someone who could not and should not have to work on light musicals.
What a BS.