Who Is Judy Garland In Easter Parade Film Analysis

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Easter Parade (1948) is a musical and a romance about a man, Don Hewes (Fred Astire) who vows to find a dance partner who he can make better than his old dance partner, Nadine Hale (Ann Miller). He eventually finds Hannah Brown (Judy Garland) and they start off really bad. They become a sensational duo after Don figures out what Hannah’s singing and dancing abilities are best at and the two eventually fall in love with each other in the film. Judy Garland is a sensational actor. She has made a big impact on many of the films she was a part of through Hollywood and researchers today. Judy Garland plays Hannah Brown in Easter Parade as an innocent girl who is dragged into Don Hewes plot on getting back at Nadine. Judy came be deemed as a girl …show more content…
From the reading, “Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society” by Richard Dyer, in the section of “Ordinariness”, Richard Dyer explains how Judy can be deemed as ordinary. He basically says that Judy always plays a girl who is true to her small town values and that she is always set up to be the ordinary girl, and by ordinary, I mean the character that she often plays in every film. Dyer also explains how Judy as “different” and this explanation comes from the “Androgyny” section of the reading. In this section, Dyer explains how Judy can be seen as a person who is in-between genders. A scene and a musical number from the film, Easter Sunday, that can support what Dyer is saying. The scene that supports his claim is when Hannah is walking down the sidewalk trying to gain attention …show more content…
Carmen is a person that is not close to Dyers point of ordinariness. Carmen is a person who’s very different from regular characters. She is different by the way she dresses and her race. She dressed in fruity hats and multicolor dresses, which is something a person of ordinariness would not consider wearing, according to Dyer on what is ordinary. Her race made her unordinary because she was Hispanic and many ordinary female actors were Caucasian at that time. Androgyny is a term that does not describe Carmen. Carmen’s gender would not ever be questioned, because of the way she performed in The Gang’s All Here, with her multiple times of flirting with Mr. Porter (Edward Everett

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