- Actors: Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Vivian Blaine, Felix Bressart
- Directors: Walter Lang
- Writers: Earl Baldwin, Ernest Pagano, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Michael Fessier, Walter Bullock
- Producers: William LeBaron
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 17 Jun 2008
- Run Time: 82 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00158K1AK
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 69,474 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is the last of the lavishly produced 20th Century Fox Technicolor musicals to star Carmen Miranda in which she is properly showcased with terrific costumes and a really prominent role. She is top billed for the first time playing Princess Cherida, a nightclub singer and entertainer, although the principal character is actually Don Ameche as Kenneth Harvey, a Kansas musician arrived in New York hoping to get his concerto played by a famous conductor Kovosky (obviously modelled on Leopold Stokowski) but falling in with some show business types who want to use his music in their show, and of course he falls for the leading lady (Vivian Blaine)... The story is a bit of a drag with definite longueurs, but overall the film is colourful and entertaining enough to compensate. Most of the action is set in the nightclub/speakeasy run by William Bendix, and features various speciality acts including Tony & Sally de Marco. The Revuers (Comden & Green and Judy Holliday)are billed but their act didn't make it into the final print. Carmen has three numbers, "I'm Just Wild about Harry" in candy stripes, "I Love to be Loved by You", and "A Band and a Bandanna" which she delivers with her accustomed unique energy and brilliance, and which alone make the movie worthwhile. Felix Bressart (memorable in "Ninotchka") has a small supporting role.
Unfortunately the film was not the expected box-office bonanza for Fox, possibly due to the absence of either Alice Faye or Betty Grable who had been on hand in Carmen's previous movies, so the budget for her next movie "Something for the Boys" was cut drastically and she was then shunted into two B/W programmers to finish her contract - a great waste.
If you like Fox musicals you should love this.
Only extras, an extensive stills gallery.
Unfortunately the film was not the expected box-office bonanza for Fox, possibly due to the absence of either Alice Faye or Betty Grable who had been on hand in Carmen's previous movies, so the budget for her next movie "Something for the Boys" was cut drastically and she was then shunted into two B/W programmers to finish her contract - a great waste.
If you like Fox musicals you should love this.
Only extras, an extensive stills gallery.
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Kenneth Harvey (Don Ameche) lands on a Greenwich Village set and tries to get his concerto performed. He hangs out with the crowd at "Dan's Den", a club owned by Danny (William Bendix). Will his concerto be performed?
This film doesn't have any good musical numbers. The main song "Whispering" is relentlessly repeated in the score for half of the film as well as making up the bulk of Kenny's concerto, which we hear on numerous occasions. It is then performed again by Bonnie (Vivian Blaine). It is rammed down our necks and it never comes close to being as good as the 1965 recording by Nino Temple and April Stevens. Carmen Miranda is given some crap to perform but she is worth watching for the colour that she brings with her costumes and the humour she brings by being nuts. In fact, the film is only worth seeing for her, the De Marco's ballroom dance at the beginning of the film and the "Four Step Brothers" who put on a great dance routine in the middle of the film. William Bendix is good in his role and performs an amusing dance routine but the film is garbage.
This film doesn't have any good musical numbers. The main song "Whispering" is relentlessly repeated in the score for half of the film as well as making up the bulk of Kenny's concerto, which we hear on numerous occasions. It is then performed again by Bonnie (Vivian Blaine). It is rammed down our necks and it never comes close to being as good as the 1965 recording by Nino Temple and April Stevens. Carmen Miranda is given some crap to perform but she is worth watching for the colour that she brings with her costumes and the humour she brings by being nuts. In fact, the film is only worth seeing for her, the De Marco's ballroom dance at the beginning of the film and the "Four Step Brothers" who put on a great dance routine in the middle of the film. William Bendix is good in his role and performs an amusing dance routine but the film is garbage.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Greenwich Village
17 July 2008
Format:DVD
This FOX Musical was the ONLY time CARMEN MIRANDA got TOP BILLING. A colorful romp in a 1920s N.Y. GREENWICH VILLAGE, of course it looks more like the 40s. Carmen is terrific in this film as a fortune teller and as a singer/dancer. She has three musical numbers in this film and all are true Miranda with outstanding costumes and sets. Her costume in the final number "GIVE ME A BAND AND A BANDANA" was considered by critics to be quite 'risque' for the times. It is an outstanding transfer with some very nice musical numbers...plot is just ordinary with DON AMECHE as a composer who's concerto gets stolen...VIVIAN BLAINE gives good support and is truly beautiful. Extras include studio stills and film trailer...
A MUST FOR MIRANDA FANS!...and those who love 40s Technicolor musicals. It is now available alone on DVD or part of the new FOX MARQUEE MUSICAL CARMEN MIRANDA 5-DVD COLLECTION.
A MUST FOR MIRANDA FANS!...and those who love 40s Technicolor musicals. It is now available alone on DVD or part of the new FOX MARQUEE MUSICAL CARMEN MIRANDA 5-DVD COLLECTION.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Tons of Fun in Greenwich Village!
27 Jun 2008
Format:DVD
Greenwich Village is another Fox musical made during the 1940s. Honestly I didn't think that musical was great but it wasn't horrible. The film stars Don Ameche playing a classical composer named Kenneth Harvey that is trying to publish his concerto in New York. He lands a job in a nightclub in Greenwich Village and befriends two entertainers Princess Querida (Carmen Miranda) and Bonnie Watson (Vivian Blaine). During the same time their boss Danny O'Mara (William Bendix) decides to put on a musical show. While putting on the show Bonnie and Kenneth are falling in love and Danny has feelings for Bonnie as well. Danny jealous and in love with Bonnie decides to surreptitiously adapt Kenneth's tunes to his show without him knowing. The plot isn't much but what did you expect in a musical? The cast does a pretty good job carrying the film and I thought Bendix did a great job as a villian. He makes the character a likeable villian!
This movie is easy to enjoy and most of the numbers are done quite nicely. I think Carmen Miranda had the best numbers throughout the whole movie. My favorite number had to be "Give Me a Band and a Bandana" sung by Ms. Miranda. I would only recommend this movie to die hard musical fans, especially those of Fox musicals!
As for extras the DVD only has a Photo Gallery with behind-the-scenes, portraits, and ads.
Thanks Fox for putting out another musical on DVD!
This movie is easy to enjoy and most of the numbers are done quite nicely. I think Carmen Miranda had the best numbers throughout the whole movie. My favorite number had to be "Give Me a Band and a Bandana" sung by Ms. Miranda. I would only recommend this movie to die hard musical fans, especially those of Fox musicals!
As for extras the DVD only has a Photo Gallery with behind-the-scenes, portraits, and ads.
Thanks Fox for putting out another musical on DVD!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
fun musical outing for Carmen Miranda and Vivian Blaine
2 Jun 2009
Format:DVD
Here's a really fun movie for musical fans. 1944's GREENWICH VILLAGE marked the first and only time that Carmen Miranda was top-billed in the cast for one of her films, although she still ends up playing second fiddle to a love story between Vivian Blaine and Don Ameche.
After Alice Faye fell pregnant with her second child, producers frantically scrambled for a suitable replacement for the lead role of Bonnie. They found gorgeous cherry blonde Vivian Blaine, a nightclub singer whose voice was quite similar to Ms Faye's and who had the necessary screen charisma to carry the slight storyline.
GREENWICH VILLAGE, a charming musical set in the 1920s, was Blaine's first big break, in which she played Bonnie Watson, a promising young performer in a Greenwich Village nightclub owned by Danny O'Mara (the always impressive William Bendix). An up-and-coming composer visiting from Kansas, Kenneth Harvey (Don Ameche), takes an instant liking to Bonnie, and plays some of his compositions for her. Those tunes mysteriously start appearing in the show that Danny is tooling as a star vehicle for Bonnie and fellow nightclub performer Princess Querida (Carmen Miranda). Like the other reviewers here I won't go and spoil the plot any further.
Carmen Miranda sings "I'm Just Wild About Harry", "I Like to Be Loved By You", and "Give Me a Band and a Bandana"; Vivian Blaine performs "Whispering". The costumes are lush--especially the black sequinned creation that Ms Miranda wears at the end of the film.
A fun movie if you're a fan of the main stars. The DVD is also available as part of the Carmen Miranda Collection boxset which also boasts a remastered print of "The Gang's All Here" and three more titles co-starring Vivian Blaine ("Something for the Boys", "If I'm Lucky" and "Doll Face").
After Alice Faye fell pregnant with her second child, producers frantically scrambled for a suitable replacement for the lead role of Bonnie. They found gorgeous cherry blonde Vivian Blaine, a nightclub singer whose voice was quite similar to Ms Faye's and who had the necessary screen charisma to carry the slight storyline.
GREENWICH VILLAGE, a charming musical set in the 1920s, was Blaine's first big break, in which she played Bonnie Watson, a promising young performer in a Greenwich Village nightclub owned by Danny O'Mara (the always impressive William Bendix). An up-and-coming composer visiting from Kansas, Kenneth Harvey (Don Ameche), takes an instant liking to Bonnie, and plays some of his compositions for her. Those tunes mysteriously start appearing in the show that Danny is tooling as a star vehicle for Bonnie and fellow nightclub performer Princess Querida (Carmen Miranda). Like the other reviewers here I won't go and spoil the plot any further.
Carmen Miranda sings "I'm Just Wild About Harry", "I Like to Be Loved By You", and "Give Me a Band and a Bandana"; Vivian Blaine performs "Whispering". The costumes are lush--especially the black sequinned creation that Ms Miranda wears at the end of the film.
A fun movie if you're a fan of the main stars. The DVD is also available as part of the Carmen Miranda Collection boxset which also boasts a remastered print of "The Gang's All Here" and three more titles co-starring Vivian Blaine ("Something for the Boys", "If I'm Lucky" and "Doll Face").
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