Blu-ray Release: My Gal Sal

Blu-ray Release Date: June 19, 2018
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time


A gorgeously accoutered movie musical, 1942’s My Gal Sal is a biopic of Gay Nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser (nicely played by Samson and Delilah‘s Victor Mature), based on a biographical essay by his brother, the novelist Theodore Dreiser.

The ever-lovely Rita Hayworth (Gilda) is the eponymous Sal, a stage star who helps Dresser to become the toast of Tin Pan Alley.

The great Hermes Pan provides the choreography; songs are by Dresser and Fox staff songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger.

The Blu-ray’s sole bonus feature is an isolated music track.

As supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title, be sure to head over to the Twilight Time site or that of distributor Screen Archives NOW so you can put in your prebook order!

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.