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...vaudeville, stunt work etc. When "The Jazz Player" arrives and sound changes everything in the movie business, Don is ready...Aspiring actress Kathy Selden saves the film by dubbing Lina's voice, but Don is in trouble when he starts to fall...
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...Valentine's Day No. 3: Singin' in the Rain If you're already a fan of Singin' in the Rain's rhapsodic soft-shoe through...s tap shoes. Not only is Singin' in the Rain a "just check it out" movie...
By Mark Bourne
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A petite dynamo whose career has encompassed stage and screen, Rita Moreno is one of only eight individuals to have earned each of the major entertainment awards--the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony--in…
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This buoyant American film star of the 1940s and 50s was a renowned dancer-choreographer, the embodiment of proletariat good-guy cheer and a key figure in shaping the golden age of the Hollywood…
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With longtime writing and performing partner Betty Comden has created some of the snappiest and also some of the most poignant popular songs ("The Party's Over," "New York, New York [It's a Hell of a…
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With her writing partner Adolph Green (to whom she is not married), Betty Comden has been responsible for some of the most acclaimed and beloved musicals both on film and on stage. She and Green began…
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Popular songwriter--notably in collaboration with Nacio Herb Brown--who joined MGM with the advent of sound and produced virtually every great Hollywood musical of the 1940s and 50s. Freed gathered…
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No less of an icon than Fred Astaire once said about Cyd Charisse, “When you’ve danced with Cyd, you stay danced with.” And in a sense, that was the legacy of the actress and dancer, whose sinuous…
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Between 1949 and 1959, Stanley Donen was either the key creative force behind or an essential element in the production of some of the most critically acclaimed musicals in Hollywood history. A former…
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