After viewing OUT OF SIGHT early this evening, I stepped back in time several decades to watch something completely different, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936. BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936 was one of a very small handful of MGM musicals I'd never seen before. Although it boasts some wonderful moments, an excellent Freed-Brown score, one of my favorite leading men (Robert Taylor), and the great Eleanor Powell, overall...
Celebrating cinematic birthdays for 11/29 . Which celebrity would you most like to spank today? Blon d³ : Diane, Anna and Cathy 1832 Louisa May Alcott wrote the oft-adapted Little Women 1895 Busby Berkeley , legendary choreographer/director. What would the early musicals have been without him? 1898 C.S. Lewis wrote the Chronicles of Narnia which were made into unfortunately generic movies. He...
We keep whatever special things we have purloined or purchased &/or put away, for when we go out of doors. The light — moon, sun, or street-, perhaps even the stars if they could be brought together by some stellar magnet — & the wind & the shadows of fruit bats or nocturnal birds & the clouds across which the shadows track complete them, create shadow plays, Kabuki, a Beckett...
IF a sensational selection of festive family TV favourites is on your Christmas list this year, then the small screen could well provide a sleigh-load of Christmas sparkle. RACHEL MAINWARING selects the top seasonal programmes that give the perfect excuse to stay in with a mince pie and a mulled wine...
It's got eye-popping sets, fabulous costumes, mind-blowing special effects and acting that'll knock your socks off! It's loaded with snappy new music and Busby Berkeley production numbers that'll get your toes a-tappin' and your heart a-thumpin'! It's the one, the only, Shakespeare Theatre Company's Hollywood-style production of Billy Shakespeare's bodaciously wacky hayseed comedy "As You Like...
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#1 TUBEMOTION.COM : Full Movie Directed by Busby Berkeley Produced by Benjamin Glazer Hal B. Wallis Written by Sig Herzig Bertram Millhauser (uncredited) Beulah Marie Dix (uncredited) Starring John Garfield Claude Rains Ann Sheridan May Robson Gloria Dickson Billy Halop Music by Max Steiner Cinematography James Wong Howe Editing by Jack Killifer Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release date(s)...
Flying arrows rain down like deadly needles. Soldiers wield their shields in formations worthy of a Busby Berkeley musical. A beautiful woman pours tea with intoxicating precision. There's plenty of vivid action to fill two and a half hours in John Woo's Chinese historical war epic Red Cliff, a rewarding change of terrain and era for the inventive Hong Kong director. The spectacular battle scenes are...
David Rockwell, one of Fast Company's 2009 Masters of Design , has been just been announced as the set designer for the 2009 Academy Awards--for the second year in a row. His design for this year's Oscars --the 81st--channeled the spirit of Busby Berkeley in Swarovski crystals, and no doubt next year's stage at the Kodak Theater will be just as glamorous. Rockwell describes a great job as "50...
Yesterday I got a haircut and I couldn't be happier! I feel like one of the rehearsing girls in a Busby Berkeley musical number! My outfit is 100% inspired by those tapping gals of the past. I'd been thinking about cutting my hair for months. Finally I took the leap! Thanks Erin for inspiring my cut! Oh yes, the adorable little fuzzball is Patsy Cline!
BBC4's recent series on 1930s architecture looks at Britain's art-deco history through neon-tinted glasses. The reality is a bit more complicated There's no denying art deco's attraction: it's the style of 1930s cinemas, ocean liners and flamboyant Manhattan skyscrapers. It conjures Hollywood, Busby Berkeley musicals , Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Top Hat . It makes you think of glamorous climes...
(LOVE the shoes. I need to make little medallions like this to add to my shoes) Ladies and gentlemen, I've finally seen this movie and oh boy did I enjoy it! I'm not a fan of musicals, but I absolutely...
When you're home for a quiet Saturday night it's always nice to find a great old movie on the telly. Last night, KQED (our local public television station) aired two gems from the 1930s which made my eyes pop with delight. The first was 42nd Street - an adorable "understudy fills in for the lead and saves the show" story, with some fantastic numbers from Busby Berkeley. The Depression-era...
To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five From the silent epics of DW Griffiths through Art Deco spectaculars like Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 to Pixar's wonderful WALL-E (2008), the connection between architecture and film has always...
This clip from Swing Time 1936, in which Fred saves Ginger's job, is a perfect illustration of why Astaire and Rogers revolutionized dance in movies. Elegant, explosive—watch for the amazing shifts in tempo—and deeply romantic, their dance numbers are—Astaire insisted on this—seamlessly integrated into the plot line of their films. Astaire also wisely demanded that the dance...
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