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    Star!
    a.k.a. Those Were the Happy Times Director: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Mikey Craig, Daniel Massey

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/20/2004
    • Original Release: 1968
    • Rating: Rated G
    • Sales Rank: 15,983

    Viewer Rating: (3 ratings)

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    Features

    Closed Caption; Full-length audio commentary by director Robert Wise; "Star! The Sound of a Legend" original production featurette; "Silver Star" 25th anniversary featurette; Julie Andrews and Daniel Massey screen test; Still galleries; Trailers; TV spots

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 -- Main Feature
    1. Overture
    2. Main Titles
    3. A Poor Start
    4. Piccadilly
    5. Bon Voyage
    6. Oh, It's a Lovely War
    7. Bloody Awful
    8. In My Garden of Joy
    9. London!
    10. Forbidden Fruit
    11. An Original Entrance
    12. 'N' Everything
    13. Love and Marriage
    14. Burlington Bertie From Bow
    15. The Knight Returns
    16. An Uncrowned Queen
    17. Parisian Pierrot
    18. Naked Men, Naked Women
    19. America!
    20. Limehouse Blues
    21. Ruling the Yanks
    22. Someone to Watch Over Me
    23. Toga Party
    24. Dear Little Boy (Dear Little Girl)
    25. Who Am I?
    26. On Holiday
    27. Not-So-Private Lives
    28. Someday I'll Find You
    29. Safety in Numbers
    30. Farewell, Kind Sir
    31. Witness for the Defense
    32. Physician
    33. I'll Show You!
    34. Do Do Do
    35. What Do You Want?
    36. Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?
    37. The Act Continues
    38. Faultless Timing
    39. Skylark
    40. My Ship
    41. Stop Acting!
    42. The Sage of Jenny
    43. Love and Marriage II
    44. End Credits

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    Editorial Reviews

    Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend, co-worker and severest critic Noel Coward (Massey's real-life godfather). The film jumps back and forth in continuity at times, its transitions bridged by fabricated newsreel footage; essentially, however, William Fairchild's script traces Lawrence's progress from ambitious bit actress to the toast of London and Broadway. Her success is offset by a stormy private life, which is given some ballast when she falls in love with an American financier (Richard Crenna). The film is way too long for its own good, though the musical set pieces -- especially the Andrews-Massey duets -- are superb. Julie Andrews welcomed the chance of playing a character as far removed from her goody-two-shoes heroine in Sound of Music as possible; Gertrude Lawrence was temperamental, sarcastic, profane and at times self-destructive, and Andrews makes a meal of the role. Unfortunately, Andrews' fans, conditioned by the Fox publicity machine to expect a continuation of Sound of Music, rejected her outright in this "new" characterization. Star! was a huge box-office bomb, so much so that Fox desperately attempted a shortened re-release under a misleading new title, Those Were The Happy Times. They weren't: it remained a financial disaster, though it has developed a loyal cult following in recent years. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    Musical Numbers are First Rateby Anonymous

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    July 20, 2009: The production numbers are what make this movie. They are first rate. The plot and storyline is mediocre and the movie is way too long -- almost 3 hours!!! But Julie Andrews is magnificent and the numerous numbers are memorable and well done. Watch it in two parts.

    Best filmed musical numbers ever made.by Anonymous

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    August 02, 2008: This movie was not overly popular when first released, but having watched it for the first time since then I am amazed at the fantastic staged musical numbers. Like the movie or not, you will love the musical numbers. They make this a masterpiece and Julie Andrews is truely a Star!


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