The Harvey Girls

Judy Garland holding two guns in a maid outfit is the vibe.

Katy

The women of the West have enough love and self-sufficiency to fill the horizon in George Sidney’s “The Harvey Girls.”  MGM’s effort to cash in on the “Oklahoma!”-spurred trend of Western musicals, “Harvey” is hardly just a two bit imitation. The female-centric film is a…

theriverjordan

“Do ya hear that whistle down the line?/I figure that it's engine number forty nine/She's the only one that'll sound that way/On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe!” I’m so glad that I caught The Harvey Girls before it leaves the TCM app soon because it’s such a…

theironcupcake

Judy Garland stars in this period musical comedy as a young woman who joins a group of waitresses to work out West, finding romance along the way. There’s some really winning performances here, with Garland in particular adding a lot of appeal in a likeable lead turn. It’s…

Josh Gillam

I wasn’t expecting to love this as much as I did.. but give me Judy Garland in a maid’s outfit with a gun in each hand and I’m sold. 🙂 I lol’ed at Lansbury when she started singing.. why’d they do that to her 😭

reed 📽️

Where the hell was our Step Up dance battle between the two girl groups??!?!

GlutenFreeDuck

"Nice women can ruin a town, can they?" "And how!" (Previous review here.) Three things I've discovered: 1) John Hodiak's one musical number, the duet "My Intuition," was cut from the theatrical release. Boo! It would have shown even more of his and Judy Garland's…

theironcupcake

In case you didn't know, Judy Garland is still beautiful even when holding two guns, demanding that her meat be returned.

nmilovid

A slightly deranged motion picture. Very cute, the main conflict doesn't even make much sense and some scenes are not good but like, who cares? Pretty good hangout movie and a very colorful bridge between Meet Me In St Louis and Moulin Rouge with all of the bombastic, pop…

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