Unlike many if not most Hollywood versions of Broadway musicals of the 1920s and 1930s, Girl Crazy retains the plot and most of the wonderful Gershwin songs and doesn't jazz up the story or interpolate songs from other musicals and songwriters. The added pluses are Garland and Rooney at their human and Busby Berkeley's direction, which is somewhat less frenetic than what he did for his Warner Brothers musicals, which is not necessarily a bad thing. This is also, perhaps, the best, most fully realized of the Garland-Rooneys.
Review of Girl Crazy
