Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)

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Country: USA
Genres: Documentary, Short
Release: 1949-06-23
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: English
Stars: Lionel Barrymore , Leon Ames , Edward Arnold
Runtime: 42 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (United States of America) , Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership , Some of the Best: 1949 (Australia) , De lo mejor: 25 años de liderazgo fílmico (Venezuela)
Plot: Host Lionel Barrymore celebrates MGM Studio's twenty-fifth anniversary, introducing the vast array of movies and their characters from MGM produced movies. Although there are numerous movies from which to showcase, he introduces twenty-five for special presentation, one from each of the twenty-five years starting in 1924 with The Big Parade (1925) and concluding in 1948 and Easter Parade (1948). Barrymore also mentions what's in store from the studio movie-wise for 1949, with such titles as The Stratton Story (1949), The Great Sinner (1949), Border Incident (1949), Edward, My Son (1949), The Red Danube (1949), Scene of the Crime (1949), Conspirator (1949), Any Number Can Play (1949), The Secret Garden (1949), Intruder in the Dust (1949), Madame Bovary (1949), Malaya (1949), Little Women (1949), Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), Challenge to Lassie (1949), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949), In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Neptune's Daughter (1949), That Forsyte Woman (1949), and That Midnight Kiss (1949). He also shows behind-the-scenes footage of the studio's actual twenty-fifth birthday party.
IMDB:tt0373330