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Till the Clouds Roll By

TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY

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CREDITS

1946, 137 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Arthur Freed; Director, Richard Whorf, Judy Garland's sequences directed by Vincente Minnelli; Screenplay, Myles Connolly and Jean Holloway; Cinematography, Harry Stradling and George Folsey; Music Direction, Lennie Hayton; Choreography, Robert Alton.

CAST

Jerome Kern, Robert Walker; Marilyn Miller, Judy Garland; Sally, Lucille Bremer; Sally, as a girl, Joan Wells; James Hessler, Van Heflin; Oscar Hammerstein, Paul Langton; Mrs. Dorothy Kern, Dorothy Patrick; Mrs. Muller, Mary Nash; Charles Frohman, Harry Hayden; Victor Herbert, Paul Maxey; Julia Sanderson, Dinah Shore; Bandleader, Van Johnson;
As Themselves:
June Allyson, Angela Lansbury, Ray McDonald, Cyd Charisse, Gower Champion, Kathryn Grayson, Frank Sinatra, Tony Martin, Virginia O'Brien, Lena Horne, The Wilde Twins, Caleb Peterson.

SONGS

By Jerome Kern:
Cotton Blossom; Make Believe; Ol' Man River; Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man; Life Upon the Wicked Stage; Where's the Mate for Me?; The Last Time I Saw Paris; I Won't Dance; Why Was I Born?; One More Dance; All the Things You Are with Oscar Hammerstein II; Till the Clouds Roll By; Cleopatterer; Leave It to Jane; Go Little Boat; The Land Where the Good Songs Go with P.G. Wodehouse; Kalua; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Yesterdays; She Didn't Say Yes with Otto Harbach; Who?; Sunny with Hammerstein and Harbach; How'd You Like to Spoon with Me? with Edward Laska; They Didn't Believe Me with Herbert Reynolds; Look for the Silver Lining with B. G. De Sylva; Long Ago and Far Away with Ira Gershwin; A Fine Romance with Dorothy Fields.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Beginning on December 27, 1927 with the opening night of Kern's masterpiece Show Boat, the film flashes back in time to the 'early days' with Kern (Robert Walker) a struggling songwriter, receiving platitudinous counsel from earnest Van Heflin who implores him not to waste his time on 'little tunes' but to 'think big.' Which is exactly what the aspiring composer does, going from one success to another, marrying along the way and, at one point, offering advice of his own to Heflin's stagestruck daughter (Lucille Bremer) who throws a tantrum when a number he has written for her is given to Marilyn Miller (Judy Garland) instead."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

NOTES

"The usual cliches attendant on the musical biopic came cascading forth in glorious Technicolor. . .and with so many of [MGM's] contract artists on hand to bring [Kern's] immortal music to life, what did it matter if the accompanying story hardly shook the world?"
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"With a cast that reads like Metro's contract list and the immortal Jerome Kern melodies for the settings, they could musicalize Lindy's menu and make it boffo box-office. Fortified as it is with sturdier values, it's surefire film fare anywhere."
- Variety

"There are 22 songs by Kern, most of them reasonably well performed, but not one performed memorably."
- Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies

Lucille Bremer's vocals were dubbed by Trudy Erwin.

Till The Clouds Roll By was one of the top-grossing films of the year. See Box Office Hits

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