Norman Taurog WORDS AND MUSIC Original photograph from the set of the #140123

Description

Words and Music (Original photograph from the set of the 1948 film)
Author:
Norman Taurog (director); Guy Bolton, Ben Feiner, Jr., Fed F. Finklehoffe, Jean Holloway (screenwriters); Judy Garland, June Allyson, Gene Kelly, Perry Como, Lena Horne, Mickey Rooney, Cyd Charisse, Janet Leigh (starring)
Title:
Words and Music (Original photograph from the set of the 1948 film)
Publication:
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1948
Description:
Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1948 film. Featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland laughing together in conversation, while then-toddler Liza Minnelli tugs on her mother's hand in the foreground. Mimeograph snipe and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rubber stamp to the verso.
A highly fictionalized (and especially glamorous) account of the creative partnership between Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers. The star-studded film, billed as "the biggest musical in Technicolor," was a hit at the box office, though still barely able to recoup its heavy production costs. Rooney and Garland's final on-screen appearance together.
The film was criticized for having sanitized the mental health problems and self-destructive behavior Hart suffered from that ultimately led to the break-up of the partnership, as well as for omitting any mention of his homosexuality, instead fabricating a fictional romantic attachment to a "Peggy McNeil."
Set in New York City and Los Angeles.
8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Hirschhorn, 25, 299.
Seller ID:
140123
Subject:
1940s Cinema, Biography, Comedy, Film Still Photographs, Musical, On the Set, Photographs
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