Just For You/Here Comes the Groom

Starring:Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone, James Barton, Robert Keith, Jacques Gencel, H.B. Warner, Beverly Washburn, Nicholas Joy, Connie Gilchrist, Ian Wolfe, Walter Catlett, Ellen Corby, Alan Reed, James Burke, Minna Gombell, Irving Bacon, Howard Freeman, Ted Thorpe
Director: Frank Capra, Elliott Nugent
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

JFY is pleasant fluff, but HCTG is bombsville
DVDs featuring Bing Crosby
2 ON 1
Warm fuzzies to spare.
An early '50s Bing Crosby/Jane Wyman double shot

Just For You/Here Comes the Groom
Starring: Bing Crosby , Jane Wyman , Alexis Smith , Franchot Tone , and James Barton
Director: Frank Capra , and Elliott Nugent
Manufacturer: Paramount
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0001ZWLSS
Release Date: 2004-06-29

Customer Reviews:

JFY is pleasant fluff, but HCTG is bombsville.......2006-11-09

the two movies pair bing crosby and jane wyman. first is a pleasant backstage musical highlighted by a fun role for the great ethel barrymore as the mistress of a private school. its nothing great but its fun. the second film (HCTG) is an utter mess that merits viewing for only 2 reasons: bing introduced "in the cool cool cool of the evening", and its the worst (as far as i can tell) movie directed by the immortal frank capra.

DVDs featuring Bing Crosby.......2006-02-17

I grew up with the Crosby musicals/music, as well as Sinatra, etc. I still enjoy sitting back and being entertained rather lectured or preached to. Many of today's movies lack the entertainment feature. These were two very enjoyable, singable, and family-type movies.

2 ON 1.......2006-01-13

JUST FOR YOU is mainly a vehicule for JANE WYMAN and BING CROSBY who had great chemistry together.We all know how it's gonna end and the plot is a little melodramatic.Nevertheless,it is a rather pleasant affair.After a very shaky start,HERE COMES THE GROOM becomes hilarious and shows CAPRA getting the most of all his actors.It is the only film of the fifties whose highlight is a wrestling match between two women.BING has a field day in this part and it's easy to understand why the director thought that he was a fabulous actor.The producers certainly knew that IN THE COOL,COOL,COOL OF THE EVENING was going to be a hit.If you like BING but never saw this movie,you are missing something.

Warm fuzzies to spare........2005-08-30

Fans of the great Bing Crosby will certainly enjoy this double bill from the early 1950's. With the Hollywood studios reeling from the effects of television, the House On UnAmerican Activites Committee, and the war in Korea, "Here Comes The Groom/Just For You" were and are better than average musical fare both then and now. Both films find Mr. Crosby in splendid voice with better than average song material such as "Zing a Little Zong" and the Oscar winning "In the Cool,Cool,Cool of the Evening." Famed director Frank Capra, who gave us such American classics as "You Can't Take It With You" and the holiday favorite "It's A Wonderful Life" elevates "Here Comes The Groom" out of the level of routine studio fare while Elliott Nugent wraps a twenty year career behind the camera with his jewel-like "Just For You." In addition to Crosby, both films feature the radiant Jane Wyman and a number of major stars to include Franchot Tone and Ethel Barrymore along with rising stars Natalie Wood and Anna Maria Alberghetti. Like another Bing Crosby double disc offering, "Holiday Inn/Going My Way", "Here Comes The Groom/Just For You" serves as a pleasant reminder just how much fun movie musicals were and still are.

An early '50s Bing Crosby/Jane Wyman double shot.......2004-09-07

"HERE COMES THE GROOM" (Paramount, 1951) (one star)
When folks discuss the great films of Frank Capra, this film seldom seems to come up... and there's a reason! This was a pretty terrible film, one of Bing Crosby's least charming outings, and certainly a low point for Capra. The script is atrocious, the realization is shoddy and abrupt, and the film's end may make you feel a little queasy. Here's the plot: Bing is a foreign correspondent, off in postwar Europe, writing heartwarming stories about French war orphans. His editor wants something juicier, and his jilted American fiancee does, too. So, Bing has to come back to the States with, naturally, a couple of toussle-haired raggamuffins in tow and a song in his heart. Alas! He is too late: his sweetie (played by a remarkably shrill Jane Wyman) has dumped him in favor of her millionaire boss, amiably portrayed by Franchot Tone. In fact, it's Franchot Tone, easily outshining Crosby, who gives this ricketty film its one glimmer of class... A long scene between him and Bing, when they size each other up, is the single redeeming sequence... Everything else is rough, slipshod and frantic, including Capra's directorial work, particularly the editing. Bing does his best to be cool and hip, but his schtick just isn't working this time around... Mostly it's the film's fault; this is an amazingly substandard production... It's worth skipping, even if you're a big Bing Crosby fan.

"JUST FOR YOU" (Paramount, 1952) (three stars)
Der Bingle and Jane Wyman team up again for this glossy Technicolor spectacle, in which Broadway star Bing is torn between his duty to his children (who are alienated because of his workaholic tendencies) and his budding love life (which, unfortunately, involves Jane Wyman, who I find quite unappealing). It's an okay film, very white picket fence-y and Eisenhower-ish... The musical numbers don't have any cohesion, but that's okay -- they're clearly just meant to be eye candy and pad the film out... (Cast notes: Bing's son, Gary, plays his petulant son, while a teenage Natalie Wood plays the daughter... and sparkles in many a scene...) Kind of a ho-hum, melodramatic plot, but it's an entertaining enough movie, with some choice moments of campy fun. Not bad.

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