The Goldwyn Follies

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The Goldwyn Follies

1938

1h 55m

Musical

Comedy

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6 Reviews

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Distressed when his last few films fail, movie producer Oliver Merlin (Adolphe Menjou) decides to trust the commonsense opinion of young Hazel Dawes (Andrea Leeds). When Hazel's advice on his next film makes it a success, Oliver forbids her to be on the lot or around actors, to keep her judgment pure. Certain that Oliver's next film needs a new face and voice, Hazel believes she has found a star in Danny Beecher (Kenny Baker), a short-order cook, but Danny proves to be a problem for Oliver.

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Otis Ferguson

The New Republic

12/26/2023

Folly all right.

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Variety Staff

Variety

03/26/2009

[The Goldwyn Follies,] in the brilliant hues of Technicolor, turns out to be a lavish production in which certain individual performances and ensembles erase the memory of some dull moments.

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Don Druker

Chicago Reader

01/01/2000

Unevenly directed by George Marshall, but featuring terrific Gershwin songs like “Our Love Is Here to Stay,” “Love Walked In,” and Kurt Weill’s “Spring Again.

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Stuart Legg

The Spectator

04/30/2020

All this might have been excellent fun. and incidentally good satire, if only the scenes of the play itself had been anything but even more ineffectual than the play within the play.

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Ann Ross

Maclean's Magazine

07/22/2019

The season's biggest, most gorgeous technicolor musical.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

02/20/2006

C-

A musical pretense that's meant to satisfy the average joes.

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Steve D

01/09/2024

Menjou and Leeds Deserve far better material.

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06/20/2022

The greatest 01 hour: and 55 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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02/01/2019

The best musical movie ever made!

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02/02/2015

Breathtaking Technicolor can't overcome this virtually plotless musical with extremely annoying turns from The Ritz Brothers and opera diva Helen Jepson; only redeeming factor is the Gershwin score (George's last) that includes "Love Is Here to Stay" and "Love Walked In" (which is sung @800 times by Kenny Baker).

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01/25/2015

good but like the 'ziegfeld follies"

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Synopsis

Distressed when his last few films fail, movie producer Oliver Merlin (Adolphe Menjou) decides to trust the commonsense opinion of young Hazel Dawes (Andrea Leeds). When Hazel's advice on his next film makes it a success, Oliver forbids her to be on the lot or around actors, to keep her judgment pure. Certain that Oliver's next film needs a new face and voice, Hazel believes she has found a star in Danny Beecher (Kenny Baker), a short-order cook, but Danny proves to be a problem for Oliver.

Director: George Marshall
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Screenwriter: Ben Hecht
Production Co: The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 28, 1938, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 8, 2020
Runtime: 1h 55m

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