Synopsis
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
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Cast
- June AllysonSelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Cyd CharisseSelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Lena HorneSelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Howard KeelSelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Esther WilliamsSelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Gene KellySelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Ann MillerSelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Debbie ReynoldsSelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Mickey RooneySelf - Co-Host / Narrator
- Granville Van DusenBeginning Narrator (voice)
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Reader
In all, the most pleasure-filled Hollywood movie of 1994. - 91
Entertainment Weekly
The biggest innovation is in making TE! III much more than a compilation of familiar scenes. This time producers Bud Friedgen and Michael J. Sheridan have ferreted out previously unseen sequences and outtakes featuring the likes of Astaire, Horne, Frank Sinatra, Charisse, Reynolds, and Judy Garland. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The result is a genuinely fascinating film, one that may tell more about MGM musicals, and aspects of American society, than a film devoted to still more highlights from musical numbers that did make their way into films. - 88
Chicago Tribune
People always complain that movies aren't as entertaining, entrancing or outrageous as the best of the old Golden Age. Yet, memorably and magically, here's one that is. Don't let it dance away unseen. [22 Jul 1994, p.C] - 80
Variety
Resourceful filmmakers Bud Friedgen and Michael J. Sheridan have come up with a bang-up third anthology of Golden Era musical highlights that capably holds its own with its predecessors. - 80
Los Angeles Times
That’s Entertainment! III is the sunniest of memento mori, a showy tribute to the flabbergasting musicals of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that emphasizes both how delightful the genre was and how inescapably extinct it’s become. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Perhaps sensing that audiences will believe they have already savored the finest MGM musical moments in That's Entertainment! and That's Entertainment! II, the studio has sweetened the pot by including outtakes from its features, songs and scenes deleted prior to the films' original runs. - 75
Baltimore Sun
What's most pleasing about That's Entertainment! III is the numbers themselves. I almost wish they'd done away with the concept of "documentary" and simply offered the snippets as pure cavalcade. [29 Jul 1994]
