The best Ann Sothern’s documentary movies

Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern

22/01/1909- 15/03/2001
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That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment! III
7.5/10
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
5.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1940
  • Character: Self
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.

Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After
5.8/10
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Hollywood: Style Center of the World
4.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 29/05/1940
  • Character: Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.

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