Sunday, December 2, 2018

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999), 7

Documentary, Comedy, Music | TV Movie 20 July 1999
Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedy, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.
Directors: Shelley Lyons, Kevin Burns (uncredited)
Stars: Joan Collins (narrator).


No songs in the Soundtracks.

I don't think these sequences are on the associated films' dvds.

I contributed the plot outline and the descriptions below; the film Tales of Manhattan was not listed at all, and it's the lengthiest segment, finishing the film HH2. I also added genres Music and Comedy to HH2, which I don't see yet. Also not online yet: my request to change various "features" Connections to "references".

Featured films:
  • Bottoms Up (1934): alternate take shown of scene with Spencer Tracy and Pat Patterson
  • Sing, Baby, Sing (1936): clip of the Ritz Brothers dancing
  • One in a Million (1936): deleted musical/comedy sequence shown with the Ritz Brothers
  • On the Avenue (1937): deleted comedy sequence shown with Alice Faye and the Ritz Brothers
  • Tail Spin (1939): deleted musical scene shown with Alice Faye amd cast singing In and Out the Window
  • Rose of Washington Square (1939): deleted musical scenes shown with Alice Faye, including I'll See You in My Dreams
  • Hollywood Cavalcade (1939): alternate takes shown of Buster Keaton and Alice Faye throwing pies
  • Everything Happens at Night (1939): deleted musical skating scene shown with Sonja Henie
  • Tin Pan Alley (1940): deleted musical scenes shown, especially the full version of The Sheik of Araby
  • Song of the Islands (1942): deleted musical scene shown with Betty Grable and Victor Mature
  • Roxie Hart (1942): deleted musical scene shown with Ginger Rogers dancing The Charleston
  • Footlight Serenade (1942): deleted musical scene shown with Betty Grable and Victor Mature, and restored scene shown with Betty Grable and chorus (I'll Be) Marching to a Love Song
  • Tales of Manhattan (1942): deleted segment and outtakes shown of WC Fields owning the coat
  • Four Jills in a Jeep (1944): deleted musical sequences shown, including songs It's the Old Army Game, and Comin' In On a Wing and a Prayer, both featuring Martha Raye and cast, and Mama Yo Quiero with Carmen Miranda
  • Doll Face (1945): deleted musical sequence shown with Carmen Miranda singing True to the Navy
  • My Darling Clementine (1946): alternate ending shown with Henry Fonda
  • On the Riviera (1951): deleted comedy/musical sequences shown with Danny Kaye singing Begin the Beguine off-key, and The German Concert Singer nonsense song
Rated 7.7 (26)

Fox, dir. Lyons & Burns; 7