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Look for the Silver Lining [VHS]

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From 1944 through 1953 June Haver brightened up about a dozen 20th Century Fox movies -- mostly musicals. A beautiful blonde with long beautiful legs, Haver exhibited a rare combination of talent, vitality, and innocent charm. None of her films -- including this one -- were great, but all of her films were fun to watch. After her contract with Fox expired, Haver -- never obsessed with the artificial glamour of Hollywood -- dropped out of movies and entered a convent. Several months later she left the convent but did not return to movies. Instead she married Fred McMurray, to whom she remained married until his death. Unfortunately, not many of June Haver's movies are currently available on VHS and none are available yet on DVD. If you would like to see why some of us remember this lovely and talented lady so fondly, this movie presents a good opportunity to do so.

When I saw my first musical movie "My dream is yours" in 1950, films were shown in the Netherlands much later than in USA in those days, I was nearly 15 years, I immediately became an admirer of Doris Day and that has never changed and I do have all of her musicals on DVD now, but at that sametime a few weeks later I saw "Look for the silver lining" and also became an admirer of June Haver. And the tragic story of this film impressed me very much and that still was the same when I saw it again on DVD. I hadn't seen it since 1950 as we don't have TV-channels overhere that show classic films over and over again and this was a film the regular TV-stations have ignored. But thanks to Warner archive series I now can see it again whenever I like. The titlesong has always been one of my favourites and still moves me. I am glad AMAZON makes available titles from the Warner Archive series, allthough they are a little expensive ofcourse, because else we couln't have bought them overhere in Europe. I found the image very good concerning it is not restored, and allthough it has no scene-selection you can push forward with ten minutes interval. I only regret it has no english subtitles.

One of my very favorite musicals! So glad it came out in DVD! Entertaining,funny with great music and great dancing from the late Ray Bolger! He's not just a scarecrow! I would recommend it for anyone fond of old musicals!

This is a simplified and "sweetened" musical biography of early Broadway star Marilyn Miller, featuring June Haver in the title role, and nicely supported by Ray Bolger and Gordon MacRae. Except for Bolger's fine dancing, I thought most of the musical numbers were only of average quality. Haver does a great deal of dancing, but nothing exceptional, and MacRae is not given an opportunity to really show off his tremendous voice; the two times he has a potentially nice number to sing, he is interrupted by Haver either talking to him or dancing. Still, it is an entertaining movie and fine for the whole family.

I used to watch this movie over and over and over again when I was a little girl. I wish that they would release it on DVD! June Haver is simply entertaining. I always turn off the TV after watching the movie & feel like dancing!

What?? No subtitles??? A. J. deKoning from Holland writes in his review that this movie (and no doubt all the other musicals advertised with this one as hollywood musicals) anr NOT SUBTITLED!!!! That means that people with hearing problems who depend on closed-captioning will not hear these movies properly. Please, people of Amazon; you products are so good---get the studios who put these movies out including subtitles----always. To me this is a four or five star movie but only one star for this deficiency.

For some reason I cannot get this to play in our DVD machine. It says loading and just keeps on with the loading. I can play with my PC though, so I decided to just keep and not go through the hassle of returning. This is the first time I have had this problem with a DVD. That's too bad because we do enjoy the old musicals. Rating is due to not being able to play in our DVD machine.

The first purchase I made from Amazon.com and I was so happy both with the delivery(very quick) and also with the film I just rate as 'wonderful' although I have this on vhs, I have searched for a very long time for it on dvd,it is a very lovely musical, one of my all time favourites, and anyone who enjoys 'older' musicals will certainly enjoy this, you really feel like a part of this musical 'family'its just so lovely, It is a film to watch over time and again, and although it was made in,I think 1949, its still as fresh and entertaining today, as I remember it from years ago.
Thank you so much for both having this in stock, and once again for your speedy delivery.

This is June Haver movie and she is good, but Ray Bolger (Wizard of OZ) stole the show. Gordon Macrae was hansome and good but not in the movie for long. The story is about Marilyn Miller famous Broadway actress. I give it 3 stars. Entertaing.