...MGM in particular had many talented people on its staff and produced works with a distinctive style such as the Broadway Melody series (1936, 1938, 1940). Judy Garland, who appeared in one of these films, The Broadway Melody of 1938, at the age of 15, went on to star in her first starring role in The Wizard of Oz (1939), for which she won a special Academy Award. She went on to reign as Hollywood's biggest musical star for the next 15 years. Starting with "Ziegfeld" (1936), which depicted the life of Florenz Ziegfeld, the great producer known as the king of revues, with show numbers featuring a variety of stars, biographical musical films were made in the 1940s in particular, featuring entertainers from the world of show business as the main characters, such as "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942), in which James Cagney played Broadway giant George M. Cohan, "The Jolson Story" (1947), in which Larry Parks played Al Jolson, and "Night and Day" (1946), in which Cary Grant played Cole Porter. This trend continued in the 1950s with biographical films such as "The Devil's Passion" (1955), in which Doris Day played Ruth Etting, and "The Glenn Miller Story" (1956), in which James Stewart played Glenn Miller. During wartime, musical films became a "necessity" that represented escapism, with stars such as Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Betty Hutton, Betty Grable, and Gloria Jean bringing dreams to the gloomy lives of ordinary people with their dancing and singing, and easing the homesickness of lonely soldiers. From this came the birth of new stars known as "pin-up girls," led by Betty Grable, who enthralled GIs with her "beautiful dancing legs." *Some of the terminology that refers to "Giant Star Ziegfeld" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…なかでもMGMは多くの有能な人材をかかえ,《ブロードウェイ・メロディー》シリーズ(1936,38,40)のような特徴あるスタイルの作品をつくり,そのシリーズの中の1本《踊る不夜城》(原題は《The Broadway Melody of 1938》)に15歳で出演したジュディ・ガーランドは,続く最初の主演作品《オズの魔法使》(1939)で,アカデミー特別賞を受賞し,その後15年間,ハリウッド最大のミュージカル・スターとして君臨することになった。 レビュー王といわれた大プロデューサー,フローレンツ・ジーグフェルドの半生を多彩なスターによるショー・ナンバーとともに描いた《巨星ジーグフェルド》(1936)からはじまって,とくに40年代には,ジェームス・キャグニーがブロードウェーの大立者ジョージ・M.コーハンを演じた《ヤンキー・ドゥードゥル・ダンディー》(1942),ラリー・パークスがアル・ジョルスンを演じた《ジョルスン物語》(1947),ケーリー・グラントがコール・ポーターを演じた《夜も昼も》(1946)など〈ショービジネス〉の世界の芸人を主人公にした伝記的なミュージカル映画がつくられ,その流れは50年代にもドリス・デイが演じたルース・エッティングの伝記映画《情欲の悪魔》(1955)や,ジェームズ・スチュアートが演じたグレン・ミラーの伝記映画《グレン・ミラー物語》(1956)等々に受け継がれた。また戦時には,ミュージカル映画は逃避主義を代表する一つの〈必需品〉となって,ジンジャー・ロジャーズ,リタ・ヘイワース,ベティ・ハットン,ベティ・グレーブル,グロリア・ジーンなどが踊りと歌で暗い庶民生活に夢をあたえ,孤独な兵士たちのホームシックを慰め,そこから,〈踊る脚線美〉でGIを熱狂させたベティ・グレーブルを筆頭に〈ピンナップ・ガール〉と呼ばれる新しいスターも誕生した。… ※「《巨星ジーグフェルド》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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