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That's Entertainment, Part II


Director: Gene Kelly

Producers: Saul Chaplin, Daniel Melnick

Genre: Music/Musicals

Year: 1976

Running time: 133 minutes

Territory: International

Studio: Warner

Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney

That's Entertainment, Part II is a retrospective of famous films released by MGM from the 1930s to the 1950s.

For this documentary, archivists featured more obscure musical numbers from MGM's vaults, and also featured tributes to some of the studio's best known comedy teams such as the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, romantic teams such as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and a montage of iconic stars such as Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner, and Greta Garbo.

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire hosted the film and Kelly directed the introductory segments featuring him and Astaire, which included location footage of Kelly returning to Paris, the city featured in two of MGM's most famous productions, An American in Paris and Gigi. This was the last film Kelly directed.




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