A look at the history of musical movies hosted by Shirley Jones. Full of clips and behind the scenes stories that any movie buff will appreciate.
Director: Mark McLaughlin
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267421/
What makes this "better" than That's Entertainment ('74): this covers more than MGM musicals. And it has 30 more years of history to mine.
But all that doesn't fit into less than 2 hours, so we have 7 more hours coming: roughly 1 per decade, but with the last 3 decades combined.
I was impressed by the quality of the images. This is a legit enterprise.
Biggest "goof": they start talking about Arthur Freed at MGM working with Gene Kelly, but then "illustrate" that with Cover Girl ('44), where GK & Stanley Donen were loaned OUT to Columbia for that film. Arthur Freed had nothing to do with Cover Girl.
I spent a great deal of time on IMDb contributions for this: 73 film connections (accepted) and 23 cast members (pending).
2 hours of extra footage on 2nd disc: Q&A after screening the doc'y w/ SJ, vintage featurettes, and an hour of interview footage not used in the doc'y. Good stuff.
Rated 7.7 (72)
distr. Koch, dir. McLaughlin; 7
