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It Happened in Brooklyn
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame
Director: Richard Whorf
Genres: Comedy, Musicals & Performing Arts

NR 2008 1hr 44min

Jobs are scarce. Rooms to rent are scarcer. Times aren?t easy for returning GIs in the years after World War II. But falling in love, that?s easy. It Happened in Brooklyn. And it happens with Frank Sinatra (in a performanc... more »

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Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame
Director: Richard Whorf
Creators: Robert H. Planck, Blanche Sewell, Jack Cummings, Isobel Lennart, J.P. McGowan
Genres: Comedy, Musicals & Performing Arts
Sub-Genres: Romantic Comedies, Musicals
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: DVD - Color
DVD Release Date: 05/13/2008
Original Release Date: 01/01/1947
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1947
Release Year: 2008
Run Time: 1hr 44min
Screens: Color
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 0
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Languages: English

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Movie Reviews

Greeeeaaaatt

Thomas H. Prindle | 10/21/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"a must for any new yorker or sinatra fan. ps. great musical # by peter lawford"

Sinatra Sings Mozart?

Thomas H. Prindle | San Antonio, TX United States | 02/18/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Indeed he does (La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni) with Kathryn Grayson, and quite gracefully too. This unique duet is worth the price of admission, but in addition you get loveable Jimmy Durante, an icon of vaudeville and early television (where ARE those shows?), and charming Peter Lawford, Kennedy in-law and Rat Packer-to-be! The plot is indeed forgettable, but the highlights make it worthwhile."

Great film!

Rosella Ann Myles | 06/06/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This film is great and a must see. Great for all Katheryn Grayson fans It's romantic funny and enjoyable to see each time. I highly recommend it."

It Happened in Brooklyn

L. Macri | Beaumont, CA | 01/18/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Excellent Movie, one of Frank Sinatra's best. Sellers quality was as promised, delivery time was perfect."

SINATRA WAS A VERY FINE ACTOR, NO KIDDING

Olivier Comte | Neuilly FRANCE | 11/13/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"There is a duke of Dunstable at the beginning of the film; as he is a nice duke, it is not a P.G. Wodehouse story. Not a bad screenplay by Isobel Lennart: the character of Sinatra is well handled, but it is a MGM pix vith the MGM vices: by the book editing, conservative cinematography (by the gifted ROBERT PLANCK!), story line overdeveloped so the film slows when Lawford arrives in Brooklyn and rates only two or three stars.

MGM's obsession with prestige overloads the film with TWO opera main arias: the Mozart one does not serve Sinatra, but Grayson is very good.

Our own Delibes piece is supposed to be sung in french: I really couldn't understand what Grayson was singing. Any way it is an opera with an extravagant libretto and the aria is ridiculous, sung by anybody, even Joan Sutherland or Natalie Dessay. MGM couldn't quit: we have long Beethoven pieces (played beautifully by a 17 years old unseen André Previn) It is a 1946 movie! That kind of old fashioned boring silliness had nothing to do with motion pictures. Gay patrons were not recognised by the industry, so we don't have a prestige scene: Sinatra as a swan or the hunter in SWAN LAKE.

Sinatra is quite good and has nice Cahn-Styne songs.The song "Brooklyn bridge" is sung on the bridge, without process photography. Not ON THE TOWN but very pleasant.Durante does not do unsanitary things with the scenery and is very good. The friendship with the Sinatra character is very nice. Young people are not shown in a derogatory manner. Grayson looks very young and charming. Too bad she had so few parts. Gloria Grahame looks weird as an army lieutenant nurse.

The great GEORGE SIDNEY should have directed the picture. RICHARD WHORF directed just a few pictures. CHAMPAGNE FOR CAESAR (available in DVD) is a winner. TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY was one of the most boring pictures ever made. You can see Sinatra, in some kind of super white tuxedo, sing "Ol' man river" The line "I sweat..." is a riot. Maybe I had fallen asleep and was having a bad dream.(Grayson was in the SHOWBOAT extracts too)

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