Alexander's Ragtime Band

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Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938,

1h 45m,

Musical

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In the 1910s San Francisco, concert violinist Roger Grant (Tyrone Power), also known as Alexander, abandons classical music to join a ragtime band with pianist Charlie Dwyer (Don Ameche) and singer Stella Kirby (Alice Faye). Alexander's switch dismays his high society family. As two decades pass and popular music transitions from ragtime to jazz, the ragtime band trio grows both stronger and weaker through love, breakups and war -- all along the rising and falling tide of their musical success.

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Otis Ferguson

The New Republic

May 7, 2024

As a picture it isn't much, but as a tribute to a genius rising from Tin Pan Alley to cover the land with the memory of music, it can't be beat.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Mar 26, 2009

Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band is a grand filmusical which stirs and thrills, a medley of more than 30 pieces, selected from some 600 which Berlin has composed.

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TV Guide

Jan 31, 2012

3.5/4

28 of Irving Berlin's greatest songs make this energetic, handsomely mounted production a must-see for musical fans.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Feb 9, 2008

B-

Despite Tyrone Powers' stiff turn in the lead, Henry King's Depression-era musical is well-crafted, boasting 28 of Irving Berlin's greatest hits, some nicely performed by Alice Faye at her prime.

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J. Alan Speer

Apollo Guide

Sep 22, 2004

62/100

Easily a tune every few minutes, all reliably executed, but the film's insistence on musical comprehensiveness leaves room only for the barest of character development.

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Film4

May 24, 2003

Great fun.

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Jan 26, 2019

The best musical movie ever made!

Kylo P

Apr 7, 2018

This escapist Depression-era musical is a conventional rising stardom picture with loads of terrific big band music by Irving Berlin.

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Henry King

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Tyrone Power

Roger Grant

Alice Faye

Stella Kirby

Don Ameche

Charlie Dwyer

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Synopsis

In the 1910s San Francisco, concert violinist Roger Grant (Tyrone Power), also known as Alexander, abandons classical music to join a ragtime band with pianist Charlie Dwyer (Don Ameche) and singer Stella Kirby (Alice Faye). Alexander's switch dismays his high society family. As two decades pass and popular music transitions from ragtime to jazz, the ragtime band trio grows both stronger and weaker through love, breakups and war -- all along the rising and falling tide of their musical success.

Director: Henry King
Screenwriter: Kathryn Scola, Lamar Trotti
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Musical
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 16, 1938, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2013
Runtime: 1h 45m

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