Words and Music (1948)

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Release Date: Dec 9, 1948 Wide

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A musical biography of song and show composers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Rodgers, who penned the music, managed to live a reasonably happy and normal life, with a stable marriage and comfortable home. Lyricist Hart, by contrast, gradually grew more and more depressed, and never succeeded in finding the relationship he longed for; he died when only 47 years of age. The film features numerous musical and choreographic interludes, performed by some of MGM's best-known stars.

Unrated, 2 hr. 1 min.

Musical & Performing Arts, Classics

Directed By: Norman Taurog

In Theaters: Dec 9, 1948 Wide

On DVD: Jul 24, 2007

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some good song numbers

May 28, 2005 Comment

Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

Appallingly sanitized biopic of Rodgers and Hart.

April 11, 2005 Comment (1)

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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There's some great stuff here, the music of course and the Slaughter on 10th Avenue ballet with Vera-Ellen and Gene Kelly is amazing. Janet Leigh is lovely and impossibly young but is given nothing to do but Drake is bland almost to the point of invisiblity and Rooney is frankly a major hambone here terrible and

September 6, 2008