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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 40825
Released: April 10, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Closed-captioned Color Full Screen NTSC Subtitled | |
Editorial Review:
An agent discovers a talented singer who's also a single mom and tries to make her a radio star, not expecting to fall in love with her.
Description of My Dream Is Yours:
This backstage showbiz saga was quickly put into production at Warners when Doris Day proved to be the breakout star of the moment in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. And although Doris has a basket of tuneful numbers and the movie itself boasts a crazy Bugs Bunny sequence, it has the look of something rushed into service. Doris spots the main chance when talent agent Jack Carson needs to replace his egotistical client, crooner Lee Bowman. Some conventionally enjoyable climbing-the-ladder scenes follow (which bear a resemblance to Doris Day's real-life struggles to catch on as a band singer, such as trouping while raising small child). Equally conventional, but less convincing, is a romantic contrivance to delay the inevitable Day-Carson pairing. The movie is awash in Technicolor, and director Michael Curtiz crams some wonderful vintage landmarks of Los Angeles into the picture: the Brown Derby restaurant, Schwab's Drugstore. The color also shows off Eve Arden's red hair, although her sardonic style requires no color enhancement. Martin Scorsese has acknowledged My Dream Is Yours as a key influence on his musical, New York, New York, and the unhappy romance and candy-colored photography give a hint why. And the Bugs Bunny thing is a live-action/cartoon blend (à la the Gene Kelly-Jerry the Mouse dance in Anchors Aweigh), directed by Friz Freleng, that puts Day and Carson in rabbit suits. That's the most inspired sequence, so be advised. --Robert Horton
My Dream Is Yours Reviews:
Absolutely Loved It! 
2008-09-16 - I am a big Doris Day fan and I love nearly every movie I've ever seen her in, but this is absolutely one of my favorite. She and Jack Garson proved to be a wining team with a wonderful supporting cast! A must see for the music, the story line, but especially the laugh lines!
Charming Musical! 
2008-02-20 - I just saw this movie for the first time and it is absolutely delightful! This was Doris Day's second movie (She had just finished "Romance On the High Seas")and second film with Jack Carson. She is Martha Gibson, a talented singer, who is trying to provide for her little boy, Freddie (he is really cute and a great actor!) after her husband died in the war. Talent agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson)discovers her in New York and take her to California with him where she is going to replace the arrogant singer Gary on "The Hour of Enchantment." Well, things don't go as planned, and Martha ends up falling in love with Gary (well, she thinks she is). Gary ends up getting drunk before his show, get fired and goes away, she ends up taking his place and becoming famous. When Doug proposes she tells him of her feelings for Gary and he plans a party for the two of them to get together. While she is with Gary she realizes how prideful and selfish he really is and her true feelings for Doug. This is a great movie that I would recommend!
fine Doris Day vehicle with Doris shining brighter than the sun
2008-02-13 - My Dream Is Yours was designed to be a vehicle for up and coming star Doris Day--and it worked! This fine musical has numerous very well done song and dance numbers and the plot moves along at a good pace. The convincing acting impressed me, too.
The action starts when a snooty crooner named Gary Mitchell (Lee Bowman) refuses to resign a radio contract even though his agent Doug Blake (Jack Carson) worked mighty hard to get that contract for him. Gary even walks out on his agent--and the radio show when the old contract is up, thinking he can do better elsewhere. This leaves Doug is a huge jam as his employer Thomas Hutchins (Adolphe Menjou) and the radio show sponsor Felix Hofer (S.Z. Sakall) have no star for their radio show.
Doug and all are desperate; and Doug goes to New York City to find a new, fresh faced star for the radio show to replace Gary Mitchell. Hutchins and Hofer are so distraught they can only think of trying to get Gary back; but Doug is on a mission and he finds a young singer, Martha Gibson (Doris Day), to come to Hollywood with him.
Look for Eve Arden as Doug's friend Vivian Martin who inevitably gets stuck paying the tab as Doug tries everything to get Martha noticed and hopefully then on the radio show sponsored by Hofer. In addition, Doris Day as Martha Gibson sings a number of songs so beautifully it's obvious why she was a rising star!
What does happen to Martha? Will Doug get her on the show to replace Gary--Hofer doesn't even want to talk with Doug. Hutchins is also very skeptical; and Doug and Martha go everywhere else looking for work as a result. What happens when Doug discovers that Martha is a war widow with a young son to support? Martha also develops feelings for Gary--will she and Gary marry? This could cause complications because Doug develops feelings for Martha. No spoilers here, folks--just watch the movie and find out!
The choreography is excellent in the scenes in the radio station and at The Cocoanut Grove; the cinematography shines in these scenes and the shots of Los Angeles and Hollywood are all very nicely done. The Technicolor works very well.
The DVD comes with a few extras; we get a cute one reel short entitled So You Want To Be An Actor; and there's the theatrical trailer as well.
In short, My Dream Is Yours provides us with quite a few very fine musical numbers--including that amusing dance sequence with Doris Day, Jack Carson and Bugs Bunny! The acting is great and the story holds your interest. I highly recommend this film for fans of classic movie musicals.
Atom-Francid Mottletry
2007-04-15 - Quite an enjoyable late 1940s musical, very unprepossessing (in a good way). While director Michael Curtiz could have staged much of this with considerably greater flourish and "artsiness" (as Vincente Minnelli might have), he chooses instead to tell the story directly, with little adornment, save for the deep resonance of the Technicolor palette (which is also restrained compared to other color musicals of the period) and the late-deco shininess of the urban landscape and the radio station in particular. The performances, likewise, are mostly cool and tempered, with Doris Day admirably containing the hamminess that would be her stock-in-trade during the 1950s. Given the sobriety of the narrative up until the third act, the ending is especially hard-hitting and emotionally effective.
There is the drawback of the musical number with Bugs Bunny (directed by Friz Freleng, Warner Bros,' least imaginative animation director), which halts the narrative flow rather than enhancing it, while some of the minor attempts at comedy fall flat in comparison to the dramatic elements.
Beyond that, this is a moving and understated musical melodrama that deserves a place alongside the better-known classics of the era.
Wake Up, Freddie
2006-03-17 - Oddly depressing Doris Day film story has more in common with proto-noir type movies like POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE or A STAR IS BORN than later Day musicals. This one definitely concentrates on "Day of the Locust" spectacle of talent flocking to Hollywood for their big break, only to meet shabby treatment and disappointment. The movie leaves a sour taste in one's mouth. I'd say a good 3/5 of this film is all about how hard Jack Carson sweats to get Doris a chance as a singer, but nobody wants to take a flyer on an untried talent. And you feel for him, but it doesn't change the fact that he's sort of a florid "death of a salesman" sort of loser.
Scene after scene, beautifully directed by Michael (FOUR DAUGHTERS) Curtiz, plays up the angle of the beautiful scenery (has Los Angeles ever looked so dreamy>) versus the shattered dreams of movieland wannabes. I;ve never been a huge fan of S Z Sakalln, the Austrian actor known as "Cuddles," but he's especially repulsive here as a radio sponsor with absolute, godlike powers over the little people who toil on his show, "The Hour of Enchantment." He has only one soft spot, a tiny dog he calls "Sally." He's creepy here, like Charles Coburn in THE PARADINE CASE. Every time Jack Carson has to approach him to ask him to listen to Miss Day one more time, you cringe, for Cuddles doesn't show a single sign of humanity, his self-aborption and selfishness reach Bunuelian levels.
And what is with the all girl orchestra, dressed in flimsy pastel togas, run by that martinet conductor? How lesbian were they trying to get? The conductor is stern enough to make Eve Arden, the radio producer who oversees their work, seem like a femme next to her.
As many have noted, the surreal part of the film is an animated sequence, set at Easter time, in which Doris' little son Freddie, who doesn't otherwise play much of a part in the action of the film overall, is left alone in a fancy bedroom crowded with stuffed rabbits and Easter eggs. He's sleepy and the film changes to a Dali evocation of his nightmares; the walls pull back, the toys grow huge, and suddenly Bugs Bunny (and Tweety) appear singing this crazy "Wake Up" type number that terrifies the little boy. It's so anxiety provoking that even watching it I broke out into a sweat. It just gets worse and worse as two stuffed rabbits turn into Doris Day and Jack Carson, who sing faster and faster while dressed in Uncle Wiggily rabbit costumes. I haven't seen anything as frightening in years, not since the SCREAM movies came out. And yet the grim, anxiety-filled mise-en-scene of MY DREAM IS YOURS is a fertile hatching ground for the birth of monsters.
Bring to DVD, please!
