Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

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Judy Garland, who played real-life singer-dancer Marilyn Miller, was pregnant with her first daughter, Liza Minnelli. She was placed behind stacks of dishes while singing "Look For the Silver Lining", but it was not to "hide her belly" as some have thought, because moments before her number, she is shown walking over to the set and even during her song as she is standing behind the dishes, her abdomen is not disguised.
During the "Who?" segment Judy Garland and the chorus move smoothly down the staircase. They did this by standing on a slide that was hydraulically controlled. It was supposed to ease to a stop at the bottom but, instead, stopped abruptly. There is a quick cut that partly hides this but it can still be seen as everyone suddenly gives a little lurch just before the cut.
In the release print, two of the Jerome Kern songs were edited to remove their verses: Judy Garland's production number "Who?" (lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach), and Virginia O'Brien's "Life Upon the Wicked Stage" (lyrics by Mr. Hammerstein). Recordings with the verses (but just a partial verse for Miss Garland, and also a less-elaborate last chorus without the film's choir) were made available on the MGM Records soundtrack album. In the CD era, both prerecordings with their verses are presented on a soundtrack disc from the British label Prism.
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