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The Yule Tide Marathon – Holiday Inn (1942)
gmanReviews —
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After being a performer for so long and being fed up with his hectic schedule Jim Hardy [ Bing Crosby ] decides to retire and live the rest of his life on a farm. After that fails to live up to his expectations he decides to turn it into a special kind of club, The Holiday Inn, where people can come on each public ...1 day ago -
Celluloid Heroes: Eight Musicals of the 21st Century
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A funny thing happened this decade — the once dying genre of live-action movie musicals seems to have returned to the movie repertoire. As the decade closes, I can think of exactly two major westerns, but I keep remembering musicals that I should consider for this piece (including the mostly well-regarded French ...6 days ago -
Ten Christmas Movies You Shouldn’t Miss
Poptimal.com —
Authority: 487
A Christmas Story If you out there grumbling that EVERYONE has all ready seen all these movies, I think you will be surprised to know you are wrong. I’m constantly astonished that these films, which I consider staples of the holiday season, are missing from people’s homes, memories, and experiences. I’m going ...6 days ago -
25 Greatest Christmas Films: #6 — ‘Holiday Inn’ (1942)
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Authority: 752
Holiday Inn isn’t just one of the all-time great Christmas films, it’s also one of the all-time great movie musicals. With an astonishingly good score, even for Irving Berlin, and the perfect star combination of the affable Bing Crosby and perfectionist Fred Astaire, Holiday Inn conjures up the simplest of ...1 week ago -
50 Classic Musicals DVD Collection
techviva —
Authority: 155
The 50 Classic Musicals DVD Collection is a wonderful DVD collection that will give you and your family hours of enjoyment watching many of the classics that you remember watching with your parents. The musicals spread from the 1930’s to the 1960’s and give you legends such as Amos N’ Andy, Duke Ellington and ...1 week ago -
Shrink-Wrapped
The Front Row —
Authority: 126
In his review of “Nine,” in the magazine this week, Anthony Lane asks two crucial questions: “[W]ho wants to make, or watch, a major Hollywood movie about mental block?” How about, respectively, RKO and lots of our ancestors? I’m thinking of “Carefree,” from 1938, in which Fred Astaire plays a ...2 weeks ago -
THE TEN: GREATEST FILMS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHERS by Navo
FASHION INDIE —
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The always engaging Navo gives us his picks for best films of about photographers. He also gives us a little picture into why he became a photographer. Read it, memorize it, bring it up in conversation. The Navo will be happy. DAMN, I NEED TO HIT THE GYM AGAIN Why did I become a photographer? Do I really ...2 weeks ago -
ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: THE TOWERING INFERNO
Hollywood Outbreak —
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On this day in 1974, UNIVERSAL PICTURES released THE TOWERING INFERNO. Directed by IRWIN ALLEN and JOHN GUILLERMAN, this was one of the titles in what is considered the ‘golden age’ of disaster movies. The title pretty much sums up the film but the all-star cast list was pretty impressive by any standard. Just ...2 weeks ago -
Hermes Pan’s 100th Brithday
Allan R. Ellenberger —
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100th BIRTHDAYHermes Pan Hermes Pan (right) with Fred Astaire AMERICAN CHOREOGRAPHER BORN: December 10, 1909, Memphis, TennesseeDIED: September 19, 1990, Beverly Hills, CaliforniaCAUSE OF DEATH: StrokeBURIAL: Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, Mausoleum, Block 127, Crypt ...2 weeks ago -
Downtown Marion Residents Can Enjoy “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” At Palace Theater
Thaindian News —
Authority: 740
By Ranjan Bhaduri Dec.08 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The residents of Downtown Marion have many reasons to cheer. Saturday is going to be a pretty eventful day for all of them. Apart from the much anticipated Christmas parade, they have the option of going to the Palace Theater, to watch a timeless classic animated movie meant ...2 weeks ago -
Fashion: Cycling in Platform Stilettos
The Luxe Chronicles —
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Its often been said of film star and dancer Ginger Rogers that "She did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels." That phrase came to mind recently when I saw this image of Catherine Baba taken by Tommy Ton of Jak & Jil Blog . In case you were wondering, those are 5-inch platform stilettos ...2 weeks ago -
On The Beach (1959)
Cinemaroll —
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On the Beach 1959 lobby card set image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries Director Stanley Kramer and United Artists delivered On the Beach to Cold War movie audiences in 1959. Gregory Peck plays an American submarine commander in a dying post-nuclear war Australia, with Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins and Fred ...2 weeks ago -
Gregory Peck in on The Beach (1959)
Cinemaroll —
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On the Beach 1959 lobby card set image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries Director Stanley Kramer and United Artists delivered On the Beach to Cold War movie audiences in 1959. Gregory Peck plays an American submarine commander in a dying post-nuclear war Australia, with Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins and Fred ...2 weeks ago -
Review: On The Beach
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Authority: 143
Year: 1959 Director: Stanley Kramer Written by: John Paxton based on a novel by Nevil Shute Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins Duration: 129 min ***½~ (3.5/5) O n The Beach is a film that I randomly purchased as part of a cheap 10-film boxset, and to be honest I half expected ...3 weeks ago -
Fred Astaire: A sartorial icon for whom?
Sleevehead —
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This almost needs no introduction - almost. Astaires Puttin on the Ritz song and dance routine in Blue Skies (1946) looks deceptively easy and effortless but it took five weeks of painstaking preparation and rehearsal according to the dancer in his autobiography. Astaire was known for his total dedication to dancing ...4 weeks ago -
Thanksgiving Day Fred
Fausta's Blog —
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Fred Astaire in the most perfect pas de deux: Dancing in the Dark , with Cyd Charisse,4 weeks ago -
The Most Scandalous (Mis)Uses of Dead Celebrities to Push Product
Popeater —
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Filed under: Celebrity Deaths , Pop 10 List , WTF , Videos , YouTube , Pop, Eh? Its clear that clever CGI techs can make anybody do pretty much anything on film. Though that could be seen as a good thing -- the ultimate hot-guy flick starring James Dean, a young Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp perhaps? -- it ...4 weeks ago -
Still from Shall We Dance, my favorite Fred & Ginger film. ...
I'll tumble 4 ya. —
Authority: 138
Still from Shall We Dance , my favorite Fred & Ginger film. Here’s how big a fan I am of Fred Astaire: in high school, I had a still of him dancing on the ceiling in Royal Wedding up in my locker.5 weeks ago
