Product Details

• Actors: Bill Charlap, Julie Andrews, Harold Arlen, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire
• Directors: Bruce Ricker
• Writers: Ken Barnes
• Producers: Bruce Ricker, Clint Eastwood, Howard Green
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• DVD Release Date: December 8, 2009
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002LII6E6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,746 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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JOHNNY MERCER:DREAM?S ON ME - DVD Movie

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58 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DON'T TELL ME HE WROTE THAT, TOO!, November 5, 2009

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Bellabell "Bellabell" (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (DVD)

We sat watching the documentary on Turner Classic Movies: "The Dream's On Me." The "dreamer" was Johnny Mercer, the songwriter whose name has cropped up time and time again in my life whenever I found a song I really loved.

We sat there, stunned to realize how much a part of our lives this Southern gentleman had been. "Did he write THAT!" "My gosh! Was THAT his too?" "Wow! I learned 'Jeepers creepers' in the fourth grade!"

"Lazybones" and "Day In and Day Out," "I'm An Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" and "That Old Black Magic"--all by the same writer? "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Autumn Leaves"?

The documentary features great clips by the best singers of the 20th century, vocalizing or playing with Mercer or while he listens: Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Andy Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland (found out something about her we didn't know!), Tony Bennett, Nat "King" Cole--on and on.

The documentary follows Mercer's career into the Seventies, when music trends changed and his kind of ballad passed from popularity, and when I no longer learned the words of dozens of songs. More than any other lyricist in the world, Johnny Mercer was the man who gave my generation its love songs. What a debt we owe him! His tombstone uses yet another of his unforgettable phrases: "And the Angels Sing." Indeed they did.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What talent!, November 8, 2009

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CJS (Hagerstown, MD USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (DVD)

This is an excellent look at the career of the greatest lyricist of all time - Johnny Mercer. His songs are so much a part of American life from Hooray for Hollywood, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Jeepers Creepers, One for My Baby and One for the Road, Laura, Autumn Leaves, Glow Worm, Moon River, and Days of Wine and Roses - to name just a few. He had a way with words that no other lyricist has been able to repeat. This documentary contains numerous clips of Mercer - who had a great voice - along with other greats such as Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and so many others. You get a good look at Mercer's career. My only criticism is I would have liked to have known what happened to his wife and son. Like so many biographies, it did not tie up the loose ends of those important in his life but I would still highly recommend it.

22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ating Mr Mercer .. and nicely done too!!, November 6, 2009

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J. Bryce (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (DVD)

Clint Eastwood gives us a loving and carefully produced look at one the true musical geniuses of the 20th Century. This is as much a celebration of Johnny Mercer's life and music as it is a biography. It plays out like a catalogue of all the great songs, performers and writers that we grew up with. Mr Mercer seems to have had some involvement in virtually every facet of "The Great American Songbook" and he excelled in all of them. Most of all this is an enormously enjoyable and entertaining 2 hours that I could watch over and over again. That's what makes this DVD worth buying. You'll want to take it off the shelf and play it regularly.