Movie guru, admirer of great storytelling, Fan of Superb Productions
NOV
16
2008
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
This is a musical of Irving Berlin's music by 20th Century Fox starring their number one box office talent Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, and Don Ameche. The story is fictional and is just an excuse to showcase Irving Berlin's music, which is some of the best in America.
Tyrone Power is an orchestra leader who wants to switch from long hair music to popular. He gets a combo of his orchestra members and goes to audition at a club on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco but forgets their music. Luckily the bartender has a new song that another performer brought in for...read full review »