Easter Parade 1948 123movies

Watch: Easter Parade 1948 123movies, Full Movie Online – Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but she decides to start a career on her own. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. After a while, this new team is so successful that Florenz Ziegfeld is interested in them, but due to the fact that Nadine Hale also dances (and stars) in the Ziegfeld Follies, Don says no. Despite the fact that he is in love with Hannah, he keeps the relation with her strictly business. So Hannah is of the opinion that he is still in love with Nadine, and her suspicion grows when he dances with Nadine in a Night Club Floor Show..
Plot: On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine’s not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege, Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year’s Easter parade.
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	7.3/10 Votes: 10,177
	91% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 110 Popularity: 8.148 | TMDB

Reviews:

A couple of swells and a tuneful piece of work.
Perhaps not quite reaching the heights that the talent involved suggests it should, Easter Parade is still none the less a delightful musical full of skill, vigour and heart warming attributes. The story sees Fred Astaire’s Don Hewes getting dumped by his dance partner Nadine Hale N/A. Vowing revenge, he boasts that he could get any basic lady performer and make her a star alongside him. Enter Judy Garland as chorus girl Hannah Brown…… But for a volleyball accident, Don Hewes would have been played by Gene Kelly, who suggested that since he was out of the picture, the makers should try and get Astaire on board. Astaire had retired from Hollywood but jumped at the chance to replace the then present incumbent of the role, Mickey Rooney. Worked out OK in the end, because, as was normally the way, Astaire gave another masterful song and dance performance. Garland on the other hand had to dig deep to enthuse the role with some quality. In a rut with the formula of the films she was making, and nearing exhaustion because of the hectic schedules, it took a guiding hand from Astaire to see her thru the production. The end result? Garland still managing to enchant and whisk the viewer to a nice place where troubles don’t exist.

The piece contains 17 of Irving Berlin’s tunes, with Steppin’ Out with My Baby and A Couple of Swells particularly standing out, with the latter expertly played out on a moving floor. While admirably supporting the principals is Peter Lawford as Jonathan Harrow III. It’s a foot tapper to warm the cockles on a blustery winters day, never mind only at easter! 7/10

Not much plot, not much life, not much fun
Some old-time Hollywood musicals have a style which plays well in any era. To others time has been less kind as they come across as relics of a time gone by. Unfortunately Easter Parade is one of those relics. It was a smashing success in 1948 but all these years later it doesn’t play very well at all. The plot is too slight, the pacing is too slow, the songs are too dull, the whole package just doesn’t work. Now any movie starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland isn’t going to be all bad. Astaire’s dancing and Garland’s singing are as great as you imagine they would be. Not for nothing were they film legends. But all in all this is a film which makes a rather poor showcase for the renowned talents of its famous stars.

The bare-bones plot involves Astaire’s character of Don having his dance team partner leave him to take up a solo offer. “I’ll show her” he thinks, stating that he can take any old girl and make her into a star. Any old girl turns out to be Hannah Brown, played by Garland. Don and Hannah form a new partnership which struggles to get off the ground. But eventually the pairing starts to pick up steam and you think the movie might too. But no such luck. It’s still a rather dry, oddly lifeless, musical. And a very antiquated looking and sounding one to the modern eye and ear. The Astaire-Garland pairing never sizzles the way you’d hope it would. Astaire is obviously the far superior dancer of the two. Garland gamely tries to keep up but the contrast is rather jarring. It kind of works for the story in that Garland’s character is supposed to be an anonymous nobody of a dancer. But when Astaire’s best musical number pairs him with a couple of anonymous hoofers while Garland stands idly by offstage it says a lot. The age disparity catches up with the pair as well once the inevitable romantic storyline kicks in. Everything about the pairing, and thus the movie, seems off somehow. It never comes together properly. The songs, the cornerstones of any movie musical, are all forgettable. The humor largely falls flat, most notably in one scene involving the world’s weirdest waiter. The story isn’t much of a story at all. Astaire and Garland have their moments but not nearly enough of them to carry this film to success.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Musical, Romance
Director Charles Walters
Writer Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
Actors Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 2 wins total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Technicolor Three-Strip Camera
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,830.98 m (UK)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm