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''Till The Clouds Roll By'' is a 1946 Technicolor American musical film made by MGM. The film is a fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern (portrayed by Robert Walker) who was originally involved with the production of the film, but died before it was completed. ''Till the Clouds Roll By'' contained a large cast of well-known musical stars of the day who appear performing Kern's songs. ==Production== The first 15 minutes of the film consist of a condensed adaptation of Act I of ''Show Boat'', with the order of some of the songs shifted - "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" is sung after "Life upon the Wicked Stage", and "Ol' Man River" was used as an Act I Finale, dissimilar to the show. "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" as sung by Lena Horne was filmed, like many of her other musical numbers in MGM films, so that it could be easily eliminated by sensitive Southern distributors.〔http://www.amc.com/movie/1946/Till+the+Clouds+Roll+By〕 When the film started production in the fall of 1945, Judy Garland was signed as Broadway singer-dancer Marilyn Miller. Garland, who had just returned to California after a long New York honeymoon with her new husband, director Vincente Minnelli.〔 Soon after, Kern returned to New York towards the end of October and died in November 1945. During the six months that it took to shoot the production, "Arthur Freed lined up one director after another. Busby Berkeley, not the best choice to begin with, lasted only a few weeks. Henry Koster replaced Berkeley, but he contributed little to the film since he was replaced too. Richard Whorf was brought in, and he's the one who received the dubious directorial credit.〔 The film includes two versions of "Ol' Man River" - the first sung by Caleb Peterson and an African-American chorus as part of the "Show Boat" medley, and the second, a "crooner version" by Frank Sinatra, featured as the grand finale. Barbette consulted on the creation of the film's circus sequence. ''Till the Clouds Roll By'' is one of several MGM musicals (another being ''Royal Wedding'') that lapsed into public domain on their 28th anniversary due to failure to renew the copyright registration. As such, it is one of the most widely circulated MGM musicals on home video. Warner Home Video gave the film its first fully restored DVD release on April 25, 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Till the Clouds Roll By」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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