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On the Avenue
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303128801
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ISBN: 6303128807
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1937
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Rating: - The Fox Musicals Were Bright
I always felt that 20th Century Fox put out the best story/music combination in the mid 1930s to early 1940s. There is a light hearted bounciness to the songs and these Fox musicals are, for me, much preferred to the overdone, sluggish MGM musicals. WB was great too but had that harsh urban twist to them which is by no means a knock to that studio. I love them. The 20th musicals, with Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Jack Haley, Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, John Payne, Jack Oakie, display in these performers, ... Read More
Rating: - With Fame Comes Laughter
One the Avenue is a fun musical comedy with an excellent cast. Gary Blake (Dick Powell) writes and performs in a show that spoofs a well-known family; the family gets upset and plans to sue though they have no grounds on which to do so. The young woman of the household (Madeleine Carroll) takes the writer out to sway his opinion and the two fall for each other. Blake plans to retract the harsher parts of the skit, but his jealous co-star (Alice Faye) turns it into an even worse commentary.
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Rating:  - Excellent package of vintage musical
"On the Avenue", released early in 1937, was at the the time the most ambitious musical comedy which the fledgling 20th Century Fox had produced. Borrowing very popular Dick Powell from Warner Brothers, employing prestigious Irving Berlin to write the score and showcasing their own special Alice Faye, the film was a box office smash.
The pluses are obvious - a funny almost screwball screenplay, an excellent supporting cast including Walter Catlett as a harried producer, Cora Witherspoon as ... Read More
Rating: - One of Fox's best musicals
Fox's musicals haven't weathered so well as have the products of MGM and Warner Brothers: their performers were so singular that they've been forgotten over the years or are treated (as in the case of Carmen Miranda) largely as kitsch. But ON THE AVENUE shows beautifully what Fox could do exceptionally well in the musical format when they had all the right elements together--in this case, a superb Irving Berlin score.
The queen of Fox musicals was Alice Faye, an extremely distinctive performer with ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Musical
I believe that in the 1930s, Irving Berlin was at his creative best, and he really hit his stride writing the music and lyrics to "On The Avenue". All of the songs are great with the ballad "This Year's Kisses" being the most famous. Some of the other great songs include:"I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm","Slumming On Park Avenue", and "You're Laughing At Me". Irving Berlin definitely was a musical genuis.
Dick Powell and Alice Faye should of been paired ... Read More
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