Thousands Cheer

About 20 big-name stars provide cameos in this mostly-dopey love story. I say "mostly" but to be more accurate, about half of the film - but that's an entire hour, and it makes this movie drag. I got this tape... Full review

Tonight was the first time I'd seen this one. I thought I had seen most of Kathryn Grayson's work.It was enjoyable. Of course there's not much plot as I believe it was made to take the civilian's mind off the... Full review

And because it clicked, MGM did what all the other major studios were doing--hiring their big stars to do cameos in a picture obviously aimed at entertaining the troops overseas. Paramount did it with STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM, Warners with THANK... Full review

Predictable World War 11 yarn where Gene Kelly falls for Katherine Grayson. He is not too thrilled with the army and her father is his commander.The movie is greatly patriotic which of course was needed during the war years.Grayson's mom... Full review

When You watch Thousands Cheer please note the plot similarities between it and the two John Ford cavalry classics Fort Apache and Rio Grande. Kathryn Grayson is an army brat whose army father John Boles and show business mother Mary... Full review

Well, I'm stumped as to why this film isn't better known. I'd barely heard of it. Kathryn Grayson is at her most adorable in this one. She sings like an angel, she looks like an angel, she wrinkles her nose... Full review

OK Plot begins to bog down, then gets completely interrupted by a parade of stars, some of them annoying, some great. Highlight of stars is Judy singing, Mickey's impressions and Eleanor Powell seen in color. Highlight of movie is Gene... Full review

Rats! Not only are the numerous actors and actresses good looking they are also talented. Gene Kelly's dance with a broom is as good as anything he ever did on film. But the World War Two message of this movie... Full review

Gene Kelly plays the "King of the Trapeze turned buck army private" magnificently, supplemented with the chirping of Kathryn Grayson. It shows how, even in his early years, (This is only the second year of Gene in Hollywood pictures) he... Full review

Judy Garland has the best song as she sings boogie boogie to a piano player who likes to play classical music. The best performance of the movie though, is Gene Kelly dancing by himself with a mop. ... Full Review

Before I get into my write-ups for two of the Warner Archive's most noteworthy April titles, a couple of things: 1) We've got five copies each of Ray Enright's THE RETURN OF THE BAD MEN and George Sidney's THOUSANDS CHEER... ... Full Article

A few seats down the row from us at the opening of "As Thousands Cheer" at Lyric Stage tonight, Broadway director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall was sitting with Mr. (and I take it Mrs.) ... Full Article

King Hedley II , presented by TeCo Theatrical Productions. Texas premiere. A petty thief named King returns after seven years in prison to the devastation of Reaganomics. ... Full Article

Calling the current production of the musical Sarah, Plain and Tall a "world premiere" is a stretch. But that's how Dallas Theater Center is promoting its last show of the season, which is also its last new one in the... ... Full Article