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In the Good Old Summertime
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Synopsis
In the Good Old Summertime is a musical remake of the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch comedy The Shop Around the Corner, which in turn was based on a play by Miklos Laszlo. The locale has been changed from Hungary to Chicago, but the turn-of-century time frame and the plot remain the same. Van Johnson and Judy Garland play a couple of clerks in a sheet-music store who detest each other on sight. Both reserve their words of affection for their respective pen pals, whom they've never met. The audience, of course, is aware that Johnson is Garland's pen pal, and she his, but it's fun to anticipate the fireworks when the characters on screen make this discovery. Buster Keaton, then employed by MGM as a "comedy consultant," is provided with one of his best parts in years as the bumbling nephew of shop owner S.Z. Sakall. The songs sung in Summertime consist of period numbers like "I Don't Care", "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie", and the title tune. This is the film in which 18-month-old Liza Minnelli (Garland's daughter) toddles into the closing number, though it is not her film debut, as has often been claimed: an even younger Minnelli popped up briefly in Garland's previous MGM musical Easter Parade. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Lillian Bronson Aunt Addie
Spring Byington Nellie Burke
Judy Garland Veronica Fisher
Van Johnson Andrew Larkin
S.Z. Sakall Otto Oberkugen
Clinton Sundberg Rudy Hansen
Marcia van Dyke Louise Parkson
Buster Keaton Hickey

Production Crew

Cedric Gibbons Art Director
Randall Duell Art Director
Robert Alton Choreography
Harry Stradling Cinematographer
George Stoll Composer (Music Score)
Irene Sharaff Costume Designer
Robert Z. Leonard Director
Adrienne Fazan Editor
Jack Dawn Makeup
Miklos Laszlo Play Author
Joe Pasternak Producer
Albert Hackett Screenwriter
Frances Goodrich Screenwriter
Ivan Tors Screenwriter
Samson Raphaelson Screenwriter
Alfred E. Spencer Set Designer
Edwin B. Willis Set Designer
Warren Newcombe Special Effects
Year: 1949
Runtime: 104
Country: USA
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature

Genre
Comedy
Romance

Produced by
MGM

Release
July 29, 1949 (USA)