Till the Clouds Roll By

(1946)

135 minutes.

Biography / Drama / Musical

Directed by Richard Whorf

Cast: Robert Walker, June Allyson, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Van Johnson, Cyd Charese, Lena Horne, Tony Martin, Kathryn Grayson, Virginia O'Brien and Ray McDonald

This biographical movie about the life and music of Jerome Kern has a number of good sequences that make it worth watching. A great deal of the movie consists simply of recreations of stage numbers from Kern's many musicals , and indeed these account for many of the best parts of the movie. It also adds a light and highly stylized account of his career, which is often bland, but occasionally has some nice moments.