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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Larry Hart (Mickey Rooney) is an energetic songwriter. Herb Fields brings in Richard Rodgers to play his song and becomes his writing partner. The movie is told through Rodgers' eyes. Hart is taken with singer Peggy Lorgan McNeil. Fields gains some success and brings in his friends for a new Broadway show. Rodgers proposes to older leading actress Joyce Harmon but she turns him down.This is a fictionalized account of the music writing duo. The real story is nowhere to be found and shouldn't be expected especially during that era. It does feel scattered following both guys. Tom Drake doesn't have quite the charisma. Rooney and Garland have a final pairing. It's old fashion including the musical performances. At least, it has the songs. It's old fashion in many different ways.

Words and Music was a big, splashy and mostly fictionalized biography of composers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, whose Broadway successes included "The Boys from Syracuse", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", and "Pal Joey", but was really just one of those lavish music revues that MGM used to mount to show off their stable of stars.If you're looking for actual information about the songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart, I suggest you go to the internet. If you want to see an entertaining musical featuring the best of MGM's talent, you needn't look any further than this one.The plot follows the first meeting of the pair and a scattered look at their various successes on Broadway and in Hollywood and their romantic lives, particularly Rodgers' failed romance with the lovely Dorothy and Hart's with Peggy O'Neill.Tom Drake was his usual bland self as Rodgers and Mickey Rooney's hyper-active Lorenzo Hart is a little on the annoying side, but Janet Leigh is lovely as Dorothy and Betty Garrett is fun as Peggy O'Neill, despite a definite lack of chemistry with Rooney.The various musical guest stars include June Allyson performing "Thou Swell" from "Connecticut Yankee", Mel Torme singing "Blue Moon" and Judy Garland singing "Johnny One Note". Garland also performs a duet with Rooney called "I Wish I were in Love Again", which turned out to be the final time Garland and Rooney would perform on screen together. There is also an elaborate ballet set to "Slaughter on 10th Avenue" featuring Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen.A fun time waster for musical lovers and Rooney lovers will be in heaven.

I sometimes imagine in horror that people, hundreds of years from now, will dig up _Night and Day (1946)_ (qv) or Words and Music and mistake it for actual history. Anachronisms jump off virtually every frame of both films: here for starters, the time line jumps back and forth inexplicably (it's 1925... no 1936! Nope, try a 1927 where everyone dresses like it's 1948). MGM---for obvious reasons--- brushed aside Lorenz Hart's angst over being gay (his actual personality was the polar opposite of Rooney's portrayal), The clothes are all wrong, songs are incorrectly connected to various productions and most glaringly, Perry Como (his last film) inexplicably morphs into himself in the last few minutes. MGM was in dire straits in 1948--- Loew's was breathing down an increasingly out of touch L.B. Mayer's neck over the red ink bleeding across most of the year's releases (1948 could arguably be cited as the beginning of the studio's long slow slide into decline). This is entertaining but, aside from the short shrift given the Rodgers and Hart partnership split and innumerable snubs at marriage proposals, there isn't any real truth in it. It's a collection of good-to-great musical numbers (best: Slaughter on 10th Avenue) tied to a story that never happened. Great R&H songs though... oddly watchable.

Mickey Rooney and the long-forgotten Tom Drake portray Rodgers and Hart in WORDS AND MUSIC, a star-studded salute to a pair of early 20th century pop songwriters who gave us such immortal tunes as "The Lady Is a Tramp," "Blue Moon" and "With a Song In My Heart." Judy Garland. Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Vera Ellen and June Allyson are just some of the performers on hand, some of them portraying themselves, which gets mildly confusing at times. To make things absolutely surreal, Perry Como plays both a buddy of the songwriting duo, and for the final number, himself! The plot is the same old MGM hooey, excepting the fact that Rooney gives the deeply troubled Hart (a drinker and gay) a bit more of an edge than a lesser actor might have. MGM pulled out all the stops for this giant-scale musical. Wait until you see the costumes, not to mention the sets and the dozens upon dozens of dress extras. By the time of the film's release in 1948, these grand MGM-style musicals -- along with Westerns -- were beginning to give way to other film genres. Within another decade, they would be gone forever. A shame, really, even if they bore little resemblance to reality. They were rooted in the Depression, when the public desperately needed to escape their daily lives.