Sparkling performances by Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Al Jolson, the teenage Dorothy Dandridge and the flash-dancing Nicholas Brothers light up this great documentary that originally aired on educational television. Using rare and never-before-seen footage, singer-pianist and musical historian Michael Feinstein hosts an informative look at the composers and lyricists who wrote America's standards from the 1890s through the mid-1950s.
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The Great American Songbook was released in 2003 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 2 reviews, giving The Great American Songbook (2003) an average rating of 74%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 80% and users giving an average score of 80%.
With a score of 74%, The Great American Songbook is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2003, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 2003 with similar scores include films like The Last Samurai, The School of Rock and The Animatrix.
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