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Summer stock (Motion picture)

This classic from the heyday of MGM musicals is a completely delightful tale about home-spun farm folks mixed up with fast-talking city slickers.

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  • "Turner Classic Movies greatest classic legends film collection"
  • "Judy Garland"
  • "TCM greatest classic legends film collection"
  • "If you feel like singing"
  • "Greatest classic legends film collection"
  • "Every Sunday"@en

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  • "This classic from the heyday of MGM musicals is a completely delightful tale about home-spun farm folks mixed up with fast-talking city slickers."@en
  • "Romance blooms during the summer in New England when Jane Falbury's sister shows up with a theatrical troupe and convinces her to let them stage a musical in the barn."@en
  • "Romance blooms during the summer in New England when Jane Falbury's sister shows up with a theatrical troupe and convinces her to let them stage a musical in the barn."
  • "Analog soundtracks contain music prerecordings for other Garland films; prerecordings for Summer stock are on disc 4 of set (see Guide)."
  • "New England farner Jane Falbury allows her sister and her ensemble to use the barn as a makeshift theatre. As rehearsals proceed, Jane discovers that she must perform."@en
  • ""Jane Falbury, a Connecticut farm owner, has worked hard to keep her family farm productive, but three years of bad crops have left her nearly destitute. Despite her financial crisis, Jane continues to pay for the expensive education of her sister Abigail, who is studying acting in New York. After her farm hands, Frank and Zeb, quit to take jobs in Hartford, Jane realizes that she must get an expensive tractor to help her with the heavy work on the farm. However, because she does not have enough money to pay for the new tractor, Jane tries to get a loan through her boyfriend, Orville Wingait, whose father, Japser G. Wingait, owns a general store in town and is a leader in the community. Jasper initially balks at Jane's extravagant request, but because he knows that his son is in love with Jane, he tells her that she can have the tractor if she consents to marry Orville. Jane refuses to accept Jasper's terms, but Jasper provides her with a new tractor regardless. Jane returns to her farm only to discover that it has been overrun by a troupe of actors that Abigail has brought in from New York to stage a musical in the farm's barn. Furious with Abigail for not asking her about the musical, Jane tells the troupe that they must leave. Joe D. Ross, who is Abigail's boyfriend and the director of the show, is also angry with Abigail for not having asked Jane's permission, but he uses his natural charm to persuade Jane to let them stay. Jane insists, however, that if the actors stay, they must perform some of the daily chores on the farm. The troupe begrudgingly agrees to the arrangement, and Jane immediately gives them lessons on how to maintain a working farm. One day, while helping her housekeeper, Esme, in the kitchen, Jane improvises a little tap dance, unaware that Joe is watching her. She becomes embarrassed when she notices Joe, but Joe admires her dancing and tells her that she has real talent. As word begins to spread through town that an acting troupe from New York is staying at Jane's farm, Jasper becomes concerned about the sudden influx of show business people in the quiet community. Jane is summoned to town to explain the situation and address the protests of the town leaders. Meanwhile, Herb Blake, one of the actors, accidentally crashes Jane's new tractor. When Jane returns to the farm and learns about the accident, she orders the troupe to leave and demands that Abigail stay on the farm to help her. Jane later reverses her decision when the troupe pools all its money to buy her a new tractor. Joe continues to encourage Jane's interest in the theater, and Jane and Joe soon realize their attraction for each other. When Abigail and Harrison I. Keath, the show's leading man, suddenly leave the farm to star in a play in New York, Joe decides to take over the male lead and asks Jane to take her sister's part. Orville sternly objects to Jane's involvement with the troupe, and when Jasper learns that Jane is in the show, he threatens to use his influence to stop it. Jane responds by threatening to call off her engagement to Orville. Just before the first performance of the show, Abigail returns to the farm and demands that Jane relinquish her role. Jane refuses to give up the part, and when Abigail sees that Jane is in love with Joe, she decides to stop interfering with their romance. Joe proposes marriage to Jane just before the show begins and Jane gladly accepts"--AFI catalog, 1941-1950."@en
  • "Romance blooms during the summer in New England as an entrepreneur tries to turn a farm into a theatre."@en
  • "A musical about a homespun farm family that allows a Broadway production company to rehearse its new show on their property. However, the performers must agree to pitch in with all the farm chores."@en
  • "Home-spun farm folks get mixed up with fast-talking city slickers."@en
  • "Garland plays a cash strapped New England farmer whose farm is besieged by a troupe of New York actors after her stage-struck sister invites them to use their barn as a summer theatre. Initially hostile to the idea she is gradually seduced by acting and the company's director (Gene Kelly) as the summer progresses. This was Garland's last musical for M-G-M. She was sacked by the company six months later and subsequently suffered a nervous breakdown. Songs include 'Heavenly Music', 'Friendly Star', 'You Wonderful You' and 'Get Happy'"@en
  • "The Falbury's, country folk, allow a Broadway production company of "city slickers" to rehearse their upcoming show on the farm in exchange for help with the chores; the results - are comedy and romance. The mini-musical Every Sunday is Judy Garland's first movie for MGM."@en
  • "A musical comedy about the activities of a group of impoverished actors quartered on a New England farm for the summer."

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  • "Dance"@en
  • "Musicals"@en
  • "Musicals"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Features"@en
  • "Features"
  • "Comedy films"@en
  • "Comedy films"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Adaptations"
  • "Musical films"@en
  • "Musical films"
  • "Comedies"
  • "Fiction films"@en

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  • "Summer stock (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Summer stock (Motion picture)"
  • "Summer stock"@en
  • "Summer stock"

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