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The boy, "garcon"

His girl, "la fille"

It's good, "c'est bon"

The show, "fini"

The moral to this tale

Is not just "parlez-vous"

Send her a billet-doux

Tell her her eyes are blue

They sure are blue.

"Je vous adore"means

I love you

What wonderful years those were at MGM.

One day, I remember meeting a terribly

handsome young man from England.

He'd just started work at the studio.

Naturally, I fell wildly in love with him.

I still adore him.

He's still one of my closest

and dearest friends.

Peter Lawford.

This building, or what's left of it...

was, among other things,

Tait College in Good News.

You might say that June Allyson,

Mel Torm, and I graduated from here.

We were all under contract to MGM

in those days.

And the studio pretty much told us

what pictures we were gonna appear in.

They put us in dramas, comedies

and in my case...

don't ask me why, an occasional musical.

As a singer or dancer, I was ill-equipped

to compete with Astaire or Kelly...

but we did what we were told to do.

When I first came to MGM,

the world was at war.

For the Gls overseas and the audiences

here at home...

the musicals were

a very special kind of escape...

both during the war and afterwards.

The films we made here

had a certain style.

A look that was unmistakable.

Whether it was the directing,

or the writing, or the scenery...

the costumes, the lighting,

I don't really know.

But somehow you could always tell

that it was an MGM movie.

Especially the musicals.

All right, cut it.

Print it, Jane.

All right, take me into No. 1.

Okay, No. 1.

Can you see your marks, Joe?

- Okay, everybody.

- Quiet! We're rolling.

Speed. Action.

The studio was constantly experimenting,

constantly showcasing new talent.

Like Debbie Reynolds

and Carleton Carpenter...

in Two Weeks:
With Love.

Said the chimpy to the monk

Said the monkey to the chimp

All night long they'd chatter away

All day long they were happy and gay

Swinging and singing

in a honky-tonky way

Means, "Monk, I love but you"

Bab-a dab-a dab in monkey talk

means, "Chimp, I love you, too"

Then the big baboon, one night in June

He married them, and very soon

They went upon their

aba daba honeymoon

Elizabeth Taylor starred

in A Date With Judy.

One of the first in a new wave

of teenage musicals...

most of them produced by Joe Pasternak.

That isn't Elizabeth's voice you're hearing.

MGM kept her too busy

to rehearse and record.

But her co-star, Jane Powell,

quickly became one of the studio's...

most popular young talents.

As an old

native-born

Californian would say

It's a most unusual day

There are people meeting people

There is sunshine everywhere

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