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21 March 2021

Strike Up the Band


This is so cute and so much fun. It doesn't feel like a Busby Berkeley movie for most of the running time, and then there is the film's final, glorious sequence; it's Berkeley all over.

Fun fact, when Rooney and Garland produce a show in act two, at the end of it the curtain comes down and it says Next Week: East Lynne. This was a common thing producers put at the end of a bad show; East Lynne could always be counted on, and audiences loved the show. This is a kind of theatre joke in Strike Up the Band that most people would understand. Anyway, it reminded me that I had never seen East Lynne, so I finally decided to watch it.

I watched Strike Up the Band on DVD.

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