George Sidney – Anchors Aweigh (1945)
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The movie was written by Natalie Marcin and Isobel Lennart and directed by George Sidney.It won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. In 2001, Kevin Spacey purchased this Oscar statuette at a Butterfield & Butterfield auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Anchors Aweigh was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gene Kelly), Best Cinematography, Color (Robert Planck, Charles P. Boyle), Best Music, Song (for Jule Styne (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) for “I Fall in Love Too Easily”), and Best Picture.
The movie is famous for a musical number where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry the Mouse (the voice of Sara Berner). Kelly is live action while Jerry is animated. Tom the Cat appears briefly in the sequence as a butler. Originally, the producers wanted to use Mickey Mouse for this segment, but Walt Disney refused to allow his character to be used in an MGM film. Film buffs are still puzzled over Disney’s refusal to cooperate with MGM because Mickey Mouse had actually appeared with Jimmy Durante in MGM’s 1934 comedy Hollywood Party and Disney even produced a short Technicolor animated musical novelty for the same film.
The film offers rare glimpses of the MGM studio, including the Thalberg Building, the backlot, the commissary, and one of the soundstages, as well as an on-screen performance by the studio orchestra. There is also a memorable scene at the Hollywood Bowl, where Sinatra sings “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” after Iturbi and a group of young pianists have performed a spectacular arrangement of Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. In the audition scene with Iturbi, Grayson sings a special arrangement for soprano and orchestra of the waltz from Peter Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings. Many of the memorable scenes in this film were later featured in the That’s Entertainment tributes to MGM.
Anchors.Aweigh.1945.576p.BluRay.x264.AC3.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 2 h 19 min
Size: 2.15 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 790x576
Aspect ratio: 1.372
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 1 681 kb/s
BPP: 0.154
Audio
#1: English 1.0ch AC-3 @ 448 kb/s (Mono)
https://nitro.download/view/86140AF3756A207/Anchors.Aweigh.1945.576p.BluRay.x264.AC3.mkv
Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French, Japanese, Spanish
