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Traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s. That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured.

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    A Hardback by Bernard F. Dick

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      Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
      Publication Date: 1/30/2018 12:06:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781496817334, 978-1496817334
      ISBN10: 1496817338
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      Music of film and stage

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      Book Synopsis
      Traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s. That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured.

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