米高梅公司早年以出品大型歌舞片知名,旗下歌舞巨星如云。本片由导演小杰克.海利从米高梅出品的一百部歌舞片中挑选出视听效果最好的和最令人难忘的一些精彩片段剪接而成,并由伊莉沙白.泰勒等多位巨星担任串场司仪介绍每个不同的片段,堪称是歌舞电影艺术的精华浓缩版,娱乐效果百分之百,接...更多>
[first lines]
Frank Sinatra:
[narrating] The year is 1929; the singer, Cliff Edwards, also known as Ukelele Ike. The film: "Hollywood Revue"; it is the first all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing movie ever made. In the years that followed, "Singin' in the Rain" would become a theme song for MGM.
[last lines]
Frank Sinatra:
Through the years, MGM has produced over 200 musical films. And if you had to select one number from one film, that would best represent the MGM musicals, I have a feeling that the vote would be unanimous, especially among the people who worked here, and that's why we've saved the best for the last: "An American in Paris," starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. It won an Oscar as the Best Picture of the year over 20 years ago; but the ballet from that film is as timeless as the day you and I first saw it. Produced by Arthur Freed, directed by Vincente Minnelli, and choreographed by Gene Kelly, it can only be described as MGM's masterpiece.
Liza Minnelli: