When Esme is washing the dishes the first morning with 'the crew' helping with the chores, in the long shot she reaches up to the shelf to add more soap flakes to the dishwater, and is shaking the box over the water.
In the next shot her hands are both submerged in the soapy water, no box to be seen.
As Jane drives her new tractor home, the sun is on her left for most of the drive until she comes to a village then the sun is on her right.
The sun returns to her left after she leaves the village, having put water in the tractor's radiator.
When Abigail and Orville are rushing back to the farm, the backdrop is of an open road.
When Abigail shouts for Orville to look out, the camera pans out to reveal that they were driving through a town.
Very early in the film Jane is upstairs singing while she is getting dressed.
She sits down to put on her shoes and socks.
The shoes are brown loafer style.
When she heads down the stairs, the shoes are a black heeled boot style.
During the "Newspaper Dance" Gene Kelly wads up a full sheet of newspaper, drops it, then kicks it.
It lands near the risers to the right of the frame.
It is still there when he dances up the risers.
In the next scene it is gone as he walks past where it was.
At the beginning of "Wonderful You" you can see the shadow of the camera move across Garland and Kelly.
During the "newspaper dance," it can be seen the papers are printed only on one side, indicating that something other than newsprint stock was used, probably a heavier bond paper that was scored to allow for the clean tears.
When "Summer Stock" began, my hopes for the film were dashed. This is because the lyrics to the opening tune were just awful--and an odd way to start a film.
"By and large a middle-of-the-road studio musical slavishly banks on Garland's powerful voice and Kelly's supernal celebrity, and SUMMER STOCK, at the very least, confects Garland's iconic tune GET HAPPY, composed by Harold Arlen and lyrics written by Ted Koehler, in which she, for a fleeting amount of time, is back on top form, clad in black and nails the movement to a T, our heart is thrilled and swelled with that ol' good feeling, of safety, satisfaction and amazement that only those silly oldies can elicit.
Everyone who knows of Judy knows the story behind Summer Stock - no point in repeating it yet again. And of course everyone knows of "Get Happy," which has, with changing times and tastes, probably become her signature song even more than "Over the Rainbow.
Down on her luck farmer Jane Falbury (Judy Garland) is angry whe her younger sister (Gloria DeHaven) brings a theatrical troupe to stay at her farm. However, Jane soon falls in love with Joe Ross (Gene Kelly), the leader of the troupe.
I'm not a great fan of hayseed musicals like "Oklahoma!" or "Seven Brides...
I agree she looked thicker but goodness that determines a good movie or not? Hence, why she had many issues.
Summer Stock (1950) Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven Phill Silvers with hair ! Gene as always does an innovative step or two !
I actually made a point to see this film after reading about Miss Garland. The final "Get Happy" scene was shot weeks after the film wrapped and Miss Garland was sent to a "clinic"...
Parts of this movie are terrific, and I'll mention them first. Despite some comments grousing that Judy looks frumpy or that her hair is weird, I thought she looked great -- on the plump side, but healthy looking and wholesome.
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