In the Good Old Summertime with Judy Garland: DVD Cover
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In the Good Old Summertime Director: Robert Z. Leonard Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, Buster Keaton, S.Z. Sakall

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/06/2004
  • Original Release: 1949
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 15,296

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Closed Caption; Introduction by Garland biographer John Fricke; Vintage Fitzpatrick traveltalks shorts "Chicago the Beautiful" and "Night Life in Chicago"; Theatrical trailers of this movie, The Shop Around the Corner, and You've Got Mail

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Side #1 --
1. Credits [2:32]
2. Sunday [2:54]
3. Postal Encounters [3:44]
4. Honest Opinions [3:34]
5. Any Jobs Today? [3:34]
6. "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland." [4:22]
7. Lady Friends [4:07]
8. Stubborn [3:27]
9. "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey." [3:45]
10. Dreamgirl to Duchess [4:52]
11. Inventory Tonight [4:30]
12. No One Else [1:44]
13. Restaurant Rendezvous [4:20]
14. Scratching the Surface [4:33]
15. No Feeling Feel [3:31]
16. And Baby Makes Three [2:31]
17. A Man Like Him [1:20]
18. Too Much Responsibility [2:32]
19. "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie." [4:20]
20. Missing Violin [2:13]
21. "Play That Barber Shop Chord." [2:34]
22. "I Don't Care." [3:57]
23. String Smashup [2:19]
24. Louise's Audition [3:01]
25. Out of a Job [3:31]
26. Promotion and Resignation [4:19]
27. The Best Man Won [4:54]
28. Dear Friends [3:54]
29. Happy Family; Cast List [4:57]

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In the Good Old Summertime is a musical remake of the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch comedy The Shop Around the Corner, which in turn was based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. The locale has been changed from Hungary to Chicago, but the turn-of-century time frame and the plot remain the same. Van Johnson and Judy Garland play a couple of clerks in a sheet-music store who detest each other on sight. Both reserve their words of affection for their respective pen pals, whom they've never met. The audience, of course, is aware that Johnson is Garland's pen pal, and she his, but it's fun to anticipate the fireworks when the characters on screen make this discovery. Buster Keaton, then employed by MGM as a "comedy consultant," is provided with one of his best parts in years as the bumbling nephew of shop owner S.Z. Sakall. The songs sung in Summertime consist of period numbers like "I Don't Care," "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie," and the title tune. This is the film in which 18-month-old Liza Minnelli (Garland's daughter) toddles into the closing number, though it is not her film debut, as has often been claimed: an even younger Minnelli popped up briefly in Garland's previous MGM musical Easter Parade. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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July 20, 2006: In the Good Old Summertime is a great movie! I absolutely love it! I also love the Shop Around the Corner in which this is a musical remake of but I really liked this too and found Judy Garland and Van Johnson to be very good and absolutely charming! a Very fun cute movie to watch!

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July 24, 2004: 'In The Good Old Summertime' is a musical remake of 'The Shop Around The Corner' (also available from Warner and the preferred version of this movie). In place of the obviously poignant and tender chemistry that James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan brought to the original, on this occasion we are given shrill ineptitude, a la the usually brilliant Judy Garland, and mean spirited inclinations via the embittered Van Johnson. Really, I can't see how anyone would believe Garland and Johnson could be in love, much less have a child, by the final fade out. (Film trivia: the child in the last shot of this film is Liza Minnelli.) Garland plays Veronica Fisher, an unemployed young woman in turn of the century Chicago who unfortunately gets off on the wrong foot with Andrew Larkin (Van Johnson). He doesn?t like her because she once sold a harp that he could not. Don?t ask. Anyway, Larkin and Fisher have been secretly corresponding to one another through letters marked ?dear friend.? Of course, neither knows that the person they dislike the most is actually the one responsible for their plutonic romance. But when Larkin discovers that Fisher is ?the one? he decides to play a merciless game of deception, designed to test the depths of Veronica?s feelings for her mystery beaux. The remake doesn?t come anywhere near the sprite gaiety of the original, but it nevertheless has its moments. Garland - although wrong for this part, is in good voice and her songs sparkle with a vintage and professionalism that only a great artist like she could make of them in an otherwise uninspired production. In the supporting cast we have one of the cinema's great joys to watch - S.Z. Sakall, as the portly, easily flustered Mr. Otto Oberkugen - proprietor of the music shop where both Larkin and Fisher work. Buster Keaton is wasted in his role as Hickey, Mr. Oberkugen?s easily flustered nephew. Warner gives us a very clean looking DVD. Colors are somewhat dated and in spots faded, but overall the Technicolor is rich and vibrant. Outdoor scenes seem somewhat more dated with overly pink flesh tones. Age related artifacts are present throughout but do not distract. Black levels are solid. Contrast levels tend to be just a bit too low for a picture that doesn't quite deliver as much visual punch as it should. There are several glaring examples of edge enhancement, particularly during the main title sequence. The audio is mono but nicely balanced. This is another film that die hard Garland fans will snatch up quickly. But one wonders why Warner chose 'In The Good Old Summertime' over say, 'Summer Stock' or any of the Mickey Rooney/Garland vehicles.