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M-G-M's Greatest Musicals : The Arthur Freed Unit
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M-G-M's Greatest Musicals : The Arthur Freed Unit Paperback - 1996

by Fordin, Hugh

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  • Title M-G-M's Greatest Musicals : The Arthur Freed Unit
  • Author Fordin, Hugh
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Da Capo Pres
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Books, New York
  • Date 1996-08-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5487514-6
  • ISBN 9780306807305 / 0306807300
  • Weight 1.91 lbs (0.87 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.02 x 1.51 in (23.11 x 15.29 x 3.84 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Musical films - United States - History and, Freed, Arthur
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96018962
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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From the rear cover

M-G-M's Greatest Musicals (originally published as The World of Entertainment! Hollywood's Greatest Musicals) is not a biography of Arthur Freed (1894-1973), producer of the most outstanding series of musicals in motion picture history, but a turbulent, behind-the-scenes, film-by-film account of the making of his movies (which, to the exclusion of all else, were his life). From 1940 to 1970, under the auspices of M-G-M's celebrated Freed Unit, Hollywood's master actors, writers, directors, choreographers, composers, and set designers created The Wizard of Oz, Babes in Arms, Girl Crazy, Meet Me in St. Louis, Annie Get Your Gun, An American in Paris, Show Boat, Singin' in the Rain, Brigadoon, Kismet, Gigi, and nearly forty others. The author reproduces interoffice memos, production notes, art-department blueprints, and tales of studio politics, to bring to vivid life the unexpected crises and everyday magic of the Freed Unit. Richly detailed, profusely illustrated with hundreds of rare photos, this book describes the lives and careers Freed touched and often shaped - Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, and others like Saroyan, Berlin, Kern, Gershwin - and in the process reveals how a romantic, sentimental man became the uncontested master of the movie musical.

About the author

Hugh Fordin has been a producer in both theater and film. As head of casting for David Merrick, he was involved in the making of M*A*S*H, Hello Dolly!, and Play It Again, Sam. The author of The Movies' Greatest Musicals: The Freed Unit at MGM, he lives in New York City, where he is the president of DRG Records.

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