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starring: Ronny Graham, Eartha Kitt, Robert Clary, Alice Ghostley, June Carrolldirected by: Harry Horner
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301007580
Format: Cast Recording, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301007581
Label: Video Artists Int'l
Manufacturer: Video Artists Int'l
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Video Artists Int'l
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Sales Rank: 32287
Studio: Video Artists Int'l
Theatrical Release Date: March 06, 1954
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - New Faces VHS
This is the very first item purchased from an Amazon supplier (and I have purchased many) which I would classify as a disappointment.
I expected a new DVD of this 1954 film in a letterbox format and what arrived was a battered full-screen VHS which had seen long and hard service as a rental tape in some video store.
This is not serious enough to warrant litigation -- this grumble will cover the matter -- but it teaches me to read product descriptions much more carefully ... Read More
Rating: - just an old vehicle???
I have to be honest about this : I really bought the video just to be able to have Eartha Kitt in her first solo movienumbers.
Eartha had only 2 solo numbers in the actual play.Since Eartha was a real SHOW-stopper additional songs were put into the movie version.
In this filmversion ( which is NOT the live version of the broadwayplay)
Eartha had much more to do, and so we can enjoy her ,singing Uska Dara in it, as wel as Santa Baby, C'est si bon, Monotonous and also Bal,Petit Bal ... Read More
Rating: - "New Faces" more Hollywood than Broadway
I bought this video believing it to be a recording of one of the last successful revues to be done on Broadway -- "New Faces of 1952", a vaudeville entertainment that ran for almost 400 performances in the 50's! This "New Faces", however, features a tacked-on movie "plot" concerning saving the show by getting a loan from the rich father of one of the performers. In order to accomodate the addition of this throughline, several numbers from the show were edited out, most notably June Carroll singing ... Read More
Rating:  - The beginnings of big stars
New Faces is one of my all-time favorite screen events. It is a review (a series of "blackouts") taken from the stage presentation New Faces of 1953. There is no plot, but a great deal of entertaining music, some of which has lasted into the 21st century.
This great review showcased the new stars of the period, and provided a kick-start to the careers of Joel Grey, Eartha Kitt, Alice Ghostley, Yma Sumac and others.
Just plain good entertainment!
Rating:  - New Faces
There is good news and bad news. The movie seemed chopped up in parts, however, it was recorded from the play, so I think that what is lost is applause. I had seen it at aged 3 and found that it had made such an impression on me that seeing the video was like De ja vu!!
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