Moments of Movie Wisdom: A Good Time Over a Wild Time in 'The Harvey Girls' (1946) theepochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theepochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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MSRP: $21.99
The Production: 4/5
During her MGM career in the 1940s, Judy Garland, apart from her films co-starring with Mickey Rooney, made a series of Americana musicals: pictures which focused on an aspect of American life of a certain time and place:
Little Nelly Kelly concentrated on the Irish immigrants making a new life for themselves in New York,
For Me and My Gal  looked at the lives of vaudeville performers prior to World War I,
Meet Me in St. Louis focused on a typical family and their trials and tribulations in turn-of-the-century Missouri, and
The Harvey Girls, here under consideration, was a glimpse at the settling and taming of the Wild West inspired by the vast success of the Broadway musical