That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
May 16, 1976Release Date
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
May 16, 1976Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Fred Astaire
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
Gene Kelly
Self - Co-Host / Narrator / Director
Judy Garland
(archive footage)
Mickey Rooney
(archive footage)
Bing Crosby
(archive footage)
Robert Taylor
(archive footage)
Greer Garson
(archive footage)
Clark Gable
(archive footage)
Kathryn Grayson
(archive footage)
Leslie Caron
(archive footage)
Jeanette MacDonald
(archive footage)
Nelson Eddy
(archive footage)
Doris Day
(archive footage)
Ann Miller
(archive footage)
Ann Sothern
(archive footage)
Frank Sinatra
(archive footage)
Jimmy Durante
(archive footage)
Eleanor Powell
(archive footage)
John Barrymore
(archive footage)
Saul Chaplin
Producer
Louis Armstrong
(archive footage)
Daniel Melnick
Producer
David E. Blewitt
Editor
Joan Crawford
(archive footage)
David Bretherton
Editor
Ronald Colman
(archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor
(archive footage)
Bud Friedgen
Editor
William Powell
(archive footage)
Jean Harlow
(archive footage)
Melvyn Douglas
(archive footage)
Greta Garbo
(archive footage)
Esther Williams
(archive footage)
Johnny Weissmüller
(archive footage)
Ethel Waters
(archive footage)
W.C. Fields
(archive footage)
Bud Abbott
(archive footage)
Lou Costello
(archive footage)
Jack Benny
(archive footage)
Robert Benchley
(archive footage)
Stan Laurel
(archive footage)
Oliver Hardy
(archive footage)
Nanette Fabray
(archive footage)
Lena Horne
(archive footage)
Debbie Reynolds
(archive footage)
Ginger Rogers
(archive footage)
Bobby Van
(archive footage)
Marge Champion
(archive footage)
Gower Champion
(archive footage)
Grace Kelly
(archive footage)
Donald O'Connor
(archive footage)
Cyd Charisse
(archive footage)
Dinah Shore
(archive footage)
Betty Hutton
(archive footage)
Howard Keel
(archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
(archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
(archive footage)
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
(archive footage)
Lew Ayres
(archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
(archive footage)
Constance Bennett
(archive footage)
Jack Buchanan
(archive footage)
Sammy Cahn
Himself - Host
Louis Calhern
(archive footage)
Maurice Chevalier
(archive footage)
Dan Dailey
(archive footage)
Tom Drake
(archive footage)
Marie Dressler
(archive footage)
Margaret Dumont
(archive footage)
Bob Fosse
(archive footage)
Hermione Gingold
(archive footage)
Cary Grant
(archive footage)
Fernand Gravey
(archive footage)
Georges Guétary
(archive footage)
Judy Holliday
(archive footage)
June Knight
(archive footage)
Miliza Korjus
(archive footage)
Vivien Leigh
(archive footage)
Oscar Levant
(archive footage)
Myrna Loy
(archive footage)
Roddy McDowall
(archive footage)
Robert Montgomery
(archive footage)
Maureen O'Sullivan
(archive footage)
Walter Pidgeon
(archive footage)
Tommy Rall
(archive footage)
Al Shean
(archive footage)
Red Skelton
(archive footage)
James Stewart
(archive footage)
Lewis Stone
(archive footage)
Franchot Tone
(archive footage)
Lana Turner
(archive footage)
Gwen Verdon
(archive footage)
David Wayne
(archive footage)
Keenan Wynn
(archive footage)
Robert Young
(archive footage)
Mary Astor
(archive footage)
Freddie Bartholomew
(archive footage)
Nacio Herb Brown
(archive footage)
James Cagney
(archive footage)
Gino Corrado
(archive footage)
Fifi D'Orsay
(archive footage)
Robert Donat
(archive footage)
Tommy Dorsey
(archive footage)
James A. FitzPatrick
(archive footage)
Arthur Freed
(archive footage)
Charley Grapewin
(archive footage)
Carol Haney
(archive footage)
Sterling Holloway
(archive footage)
Harry James
(archive footage)
Allan Jones
(archive footage)
Buster Keaton
(archive footage)
Hedy Lamarr
(archive footage)
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 16, 1976
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 13m
Content RatingG
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
That's Entertainment, Part II is a 1976 American compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and a sequel to That's Entertainment! (1974). Like the previous film, That's Entertainment, Part II was a retrospective of famous films released by MGM from the 1930s to the 1950s. Some posters for the film use Part 2 rather than Part II in the title.
For this second documentary, archivists featured more obscure musical numbers from MGM's vaults, and also featured tributes to some of the studio's best known comedy teams such as the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy, romantic teams such as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and a montage of iconic stars such as Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart and Lana Turner.
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire hosted the film and Kelly directed the introductory segments featuring him and Astaire, which included location footage of Kelly returning to Paris, the city featured in two of MGM's most famous productions, An American in Paris and Gigi. This was the last film Kelly directed.
Several new musical numbers featured Astaire and Kelly, including a couple of routines in which they danced together for the first time since the 1945 film Ziegfeld Follies, and for only the second time in their careers. It was the last time the 76-year-old Astaire danced in a film, though the veteran actor continued to make film and TV appearances until 1981; Kelly would last appear in the 1980 musical film Xanadu. According to film historian Robert Osborne, in specially-filmed introductions produced for Turner Classic Movies, it was Astaire who suggested to Kelly that the two take advantage of this potentially last-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform together, something Kelly actually wishes for out loud during his narration of the first That's Entertainment! film.
The opening title sequence was designed by Saul Bass, and pays homage to the range and style of title sequences produced between the 1930s and early 1950s.
The sequel received more critical acclaim, but was not as successful at the box-office as the first film. Some 18 years later, it was followed by That's Entertainment! III, with Kelly once again appearing.