It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Carousel (1956) – Musical #87

Studio:
20th Century Fox

Director:
Henry King

Starring:
Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick, Claramae Turner, Robert Rounseville, Gene Lockhart, Audrey Christie, Susan Luckey, William LeMassena, John Dehner, Jacques d’Amboise, Robert Banas, Richard Deacon (uncredited), Bambi Linn (uncredited), Dee Pollock (uncredited)

Plot:
Naive Julie Jordan (Jones) visits a carnival one day and gets swept up in a whirlwind romance with carousel barker, Billy Bigelow (MacRae). Their happiness is brief as Billy is out of work and refuses to work, taking his anger on lack of money out on Julie. When he finds out that they are going to have a baby, Billy decides to get money a quick and illegal way. Things don’t turn out in his favor.

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