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Strike up the band / Metro-Goldyn-Mayer presents ; produced by Loew's Incorporated ; produced by Arthur Freed ; original screenplay by John Monks, Jr. and Fred Finklehoffe ; directed by Busby Berkeley.
LIBRA DVD Judaica 276
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Edens, Roger, 1905-1970. Strike up the band, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicians--Drama.
- Musicians.
- Bands (Music)--Drama.
- Bands (Music).
- High school students--Drama.
- High school students.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Comedy films.
- Musicals.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sheldon, Harvey (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Jimmy and Mary are two talented high school students ready and eager to climb the ladder of success. He's a band leader and she's his lovelorn singer. Together they sing and dance their way to the top, with a few bumps along the way.
- Participant:
- Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, June Preisser, William Tracy ... [et al.].
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Ray June ; film editor, Ben Lewis ; music and lyrics, Roger Edens ; composer, George Gershwin ; lyrics, Ira Gershwin.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1940.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Harvey Sheldon.
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