Thanks to all who sent youtube.com clips. I've had so much fun surfing around, doing searches on all my fav old movies stars. Sammy does the cutest impression...
That very evening, Julie learned of her good fortune. Going to America, in an airplane, with expenses, food, clothes to wear, college all arranged--it was all...
The Archive of American Television has released a range of interviews on the Google video portal. This one has costume designer Bob Mackie who, 5 1/2 minutes...
...belonging to someone 30 years old: Last night I picked up one of my current Netflix picks and popped it in. A classic: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers'...
Description (Edit) Welcome to the official site of Vintage, the magazine to be sold on the net and Ebay. Vintage covers classic Movies, Stars, Music,...
There's actually 367 members when I checked. Only 10 show at a time on the page, however. -Brandi ... The Snifter...Brandi Mills' Personal Homepage ...
Excerpt from an article entitled "My Friend, Fred!" by George Murphy (known as "Murph" to Fred) [Hiya, Foss!]: My friendship with Fred started back in 1928....
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Quoting RussellMA@...: Excerpt from an article entitled "My Friend, Fred!" by George Murphy (known as "Murph" to Fred) [Hiya, Foss!]: "Sometimes it comes...
Never heard this one before. Here's a quote from the book "Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Star" by Alexander Walker: It was an accident-prone production. Nelson...
Or the snake dance in "The Sky's The Limit." Hee Hee Patty ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail...
In an old interview with screen writer Allan Scott, he offers a somewhat different take on the Astaire-Rogers films. Scott was in a position to know, however,...
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Boy, I agree. Mark Sandrich is one of the most underrated directors in movie history......
Mark was also the one who insisted that the numbers be shot in one take--no cuts to other people watching or to audience responding, only shots of the dancing....
Dottie - That's one of the reasons that I said Scott had a slightly different take. Most observers credit Astaire with this innovation. Scott simply says...
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"Dancing Lady" was also shut down for 3 months when Clark Gable got an appendectomy. Legend has it that MGM was fed up with Gable's slow recovery and punished...
I should add that Sandrich and Astaire seemed to have a great give-and-take relationship, and Fred had lots of ideas of his own about how Mark should edit...
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My understanding was that Clark Gable was demanding more money so MGM loaned him to whatever studio who made It Happened One Night. Of course, after winning ...
I HATE it when people who don't understand the Astaire-Rogers partnership go off on this kind of tangent: http://www.fragilecologies.com/may07_04.html...
Good grief--forget that the analogy is just wrong, this guy knows less about Astaire and Rogers than I do about physics. Pat I need to use one of my most...
Does anyone know where to write to the person who wrote this article? The person admits to not knowing all the facts and yet is openly eager to comment on...
Actually at the bottom of the article there is a website address and in that there is a picture and brief on the author along with his email address. Patty ......
Thanks for posting this, I found it really interesting. Where did you find it? I would love to find other articles that I've heard about with Hal Borne etc in...
Ha! Ha! Ha! Very funny, Mr. Hopkins. Patty ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam...
Veronica - Scott's daughter sent me this interview. It seems to be a chapter from a book of interviews with screen writers, but unfortunately she didn't tell...
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Over the last 20 years, Patrick McGilligan has put out a series of BACKSTORY books of interviews with screenwriters. I guess the Scott interview probably came...
Bob Hope used to sing "Thanks For the Memories." I only wish to say "Thanks for the sarcasm" (about how "funny" I was in a recent post). That's okay. I can...
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