Summer Stock - Howdy, Neighbour! (Part 3)

About this episode

The episode dives into the 1950 movie Summer Stock, exploring its characters and script variations.

Nate and I continue our scene by scene dive into the 1950 movie Summer Stock, a movie remarkable for being the third onscreen pairing of Gene Kelly and Judy Garland and for being Garland’s last film at MGM. This episode is fun as we get to explore the background of a few of the characters actors in the movie (Erville Alderson anyone???) as well as getting into different versions of the film’s initial scripts. Plus Judy gets her first chance since she played Dorothy to sing a knockout of a son...

People in this episode

Host: Derek Lajeunesse

Guest: Nate

Topics covered

• Summer Stock
• Gene Kelly
• Judy Garland
• film history
• script variations
• character background

Keywords

• Summer Stock
• Gene Kelly
• Judy Garland
• MGM
• film history
• script variations
• Erville Alderson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MGM

Books & works: Summer Stock

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