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By September 25, 2008January 12th, 20262 Comments

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Warner’s recent box “The Busby Berkeley Collection Volume Two” is a cor­nu­copia of wise­crack­ing, croon­ing, dan­cing, and racial dici­ness. I exam­ine its par­tic­u­lars in a two-part series at The Auteurs’ Notebook, part one of which is up now.

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2 Comments

  • Cadavra says:
    September 25, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    About halfway through “Bugle Call Rag” in THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1937, they simply give up cut­ting among band mem­bers and just leave the cam­era on Krupa. Which is as it should be.

  • Lou Lumenick says:
    September 25, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    I’m mildly annoyed they did­n’t include Berkeley’s last Warner music­al, “The Garden of the Moon.” It’s very minor stuff, true, but I’ve been obssessed with “The Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish” since I heard it on a Warner 50th-anniversary album in ’73. I finally saw the movie a year ago on TCM, and the num­ber is well, mem­or­ably bizarre, with Jerry Colonna(!) as the Dervish’s girlfriend.