Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
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Actor: Anthony Slide, Ginger Rogers, Joan Collins, Phil Baker, Robert WagnerBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
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DVD Review: rare and exciting indeed !!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Hidden Hollywood gives us ninety-one minutes of mostly rather good material that wound up cut from films only to lie on the cutting room floor. As host Joan Collins correctly points out, we're lucky we have at least this much! Many early films were simply thrown out; and Hollywood studios never cared about preserving their films until they could sell them to television. How sad! However, what we do get on this DVD is a wonderful 91 minutes of footage from the vaults at 20th Century Fox studios.
Joan Collins introduces the show are then we're off! We get very rarely seen footage including Katherine Hepburn's first screen test from 1932, a host of musical numbers shot both in black and white as well as color, and dramatic scenes considered extraneous or just too objectionable for the times. Most regrettably we see excellent cut footage of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson cut from the film Café Metropole in which Bill was to play himself. Ouch! How that must have hurt him.
In fact, no star was truly immune from having their best work cut from a film at 20th Century Fox. Betty Grable footage is here for us to admire; it really should have been included in the final cut. There's footage of Marilyn Monroe doing a musical number with male dancers to support her and I especially liked the Shirley Temple sequences that were cut from her films.
Look also for great footage of Jimmy Durante conducting a vaudevillian team with his nose (!!!), Shirley Temple dancing up a storm with Jimmy Durante, and Ethel Merman performing a number from There's No Business Like Show Business.
We also learn that 20th Century Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck believed there was always something that could be cut from the film. He believed that audiences would "get it" anyway. Sometimes he was right (they mercifully pulled a Bert Lahr number that just plain stunk) and many times Zanuck was wrong as I point out in this review.
The DVD comes with no extras; all we get is scene selection. However, the quality of the archival footage is remarkably clear and I feel fortunate to have been able to watch this movie on DVD.
My only complaint is that the footage we see is only from 20th Century Fox. I would have loved to see what MGM studios and Warner Brothers cut out from their movies. I am very disappointed; and I will make this a four star review because of this disappointment.
Nevertheless, if you want a great view of what really good material there was that still never made it into the movies that were so popular before the age of television, you can't go wrong with this DVD. Sure, it's only from the vaults of one movie studio but this is a lot better than nothing! I highly recommend this for classic film aficionados, film students and people who enjoy the arts in general.
Description of Hidden Hollywood - Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
HIDDEN HOLLYWOOD:TREASURES FROM - FOX - DVD MovieThe proper title isn't so much Hidden Hollywood as Cool Stuff We Found in the Vault at Twentieth Century Fox. This grab bag consists of segments snipped from Fox pictures for reasons of length or content, and the results are uneven but fascinating. Musical numbers abound and provide some fun, but Fox wasn't exactly MGM (and remember, this is the material deemed expendable). The jewels in the first volume include two routines from Café Metropole, starring the graceful dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and a bizarre patter song by Bert Lahr that qualifies as authentic American surrealism (as host Joan Collins admits, the studio cut the song because they were completely bewildered by it). There's also an entire, self-contained sequence from the omnibus film We're Not Married, featuring an irascible Walter Brennan in an amusing Tobacco Road-style vignette. Plus, Edward Everett Horton does a pantomime of Gypsy Rose Lee: a golden 10 seconds. --Robert Horton
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