Camille, a silent?
How is that Rodgers goes to a movie that's showing CAMILLE with Robt Taylor and Garbo. That's a sound movie. Also, it was produced in 1936. Rodgers and Hart's first big hit was in 1925.
sharei was wondering about that too. there may have been a silent camille but this wasnt it.
there was a silent camille in 1921 starring Alla Nazimova and rudolph valentino.maybe thats the one they're referring to.
If you try to make any sense of the "chronology" of the film, it will make your brain hurt.
The "farewell" party for Rodgers takes place sometime in the early to mid-1920's, and yet all of the women are wearing 1940's hairstyles and dresses.
Rodgers is shown going to the 1936 Garbo/Taylor _Camille_ (with dialogue -- we hear Garbo's final coughs) *prior* to the 1927 premiere of _A Connecticut Yankee_.
In order to work in the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet, _On Your Toes_ (1938) is described as "a musical we've written for Gene Kelly," even though it was 1940's _Pal Joey_ (not even mentioned in the movie) that made Kelly a star -- and it wasn't written *for* him; he won the part after it had been written.
The "Ladies and Gentlemen, Lena Horne" sequence takes place before Rodgers and Dorothy Feiner were married -- in real life, they married in 1930, when Lena Horne was 13, and she sings two songs from the 1937 musical _Babes in Arms_.
The "Hey, that's Judy Garland" sequence (Garland's last on-screen pairing with Rooney) takes place at a time when in real life Judy Garland would have been about 12 years old.
Balok-2, thank you for enumerating and giving pertinent details of those inaccuracies and bizarre aspects of this movie. I don't know whether your list is absolutely comprehensive (I kind of doubt it, given this movie's disregard for reality; and come to think of it, didn't Perry Como play two different roles in the movie, one being himself?). I suspect there's probably plenty more to note, but I really appreciate your work!
Multiplex: 100+ shows a day, NONE worth watching. John Sayles' latest: NO distribution. SAD.