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Category Archives: Musical

June 7th, 2013: Robin and the 7 Hoods

Leave a comment Posted in Period Film, Crime, Comedy, Spoof, Adaptation, Movie of the Day, Based on a Folk Tale, Gangster, Musical Tagged Best Adapted Score Nominee, Best Song Nominee, Bing Crosby, Chicago, Dean Martin, Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra, gang conference, Hans Conried, mobsters, Paul Frees, Peter Falk, prohibition, Rat Pack, Robin Hood, Sammy Davis Jr, speakeasy, tommy gun, Tony Randall, Victor Buono

May 10th, 2013: Mary Poppins (1964)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Book, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film Tagged "England", Alan Napier, annoying children, Arthur Malet, bank, banker, before they were famous, Best Actress, Best Adapted Score Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, chimney sweep, comedic working class, David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Disney, Ed Wynn, Elsa Lanchester, feminist, Glynis Johns, Jane Darwell, Julie Andrews, live action combined with animation, Marnie Nixon, nanny, suffragettes, terrible accent, Walt Disney

April 14th, 2013: The Music Man (1962)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Musical, Comedy, Con, Event Film, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, The Original Tagged before they were famous, Best Adapted Score, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Buddy Hackett, con artist, Hank Worden, Hermione Gingold, librarian, library, marching band, Meredith Wilson, parade, pool, pool hall, Rance Howard, Robert Preston, Ron Howard, Shirley Jones, small town, train, turn of the century, Warner Brothers

April 7th, 2013: Easter Parade (1948)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Event Film, Fish-Out-of-Water, Holiday, May-September, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance Tagged "There's No Business Like Show Business", Albert Hackett, Ann Miller, Arthur Freed, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Broadway, dance, dancers, Frances Goodrich, Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, Jules Munshin, Loew's, love triangle, make-over, MGM, New York City, Peter Lawford, pygmalion, shopping for clothes, Ziegfeld Follies

April 3rd, 2013: Guys and Dolls (1955)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Comedy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance Tagged "I bet you can't x that girl", Ben Hecht, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, bet, cops, craps, Cuba, Damon Runyon, Frank Sinatra, gambler, George E. Stone, Havana, Jean Simmons, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marlon Brando, MGM, missionary, prohibition, Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Company, Stubby Kaye

December 25th, 2012: Babes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Black and White, Comedy, Fairy Tale, Family, Fantasy, Holiday, Movie of the Day, Musical, Slapstick Tagged boogeyman, fairy tale, Hal Roach, Hal Roach Studios, Henry Brandon, MGM, Mickey Mouse, monkey, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, toy soldiers, toys, toys as weapons, Zepplin

December 12th, 2012: Labyrinth (1986)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, Puppetry Tagged Anthony Asbury, Brian Henson, Christopher Malcolm, David Bowie, David Goelz, Dennis Lee, Frank Oz, George Lucas, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson, Karen Prell, Kevin Clash, Ron Mueck, Shari Weiser, Shelley Thompson, Steve Whitmire, Terry Jones, Toby Froud, Trevor Jones

November 29th, 2012: 42nd Street (1933)

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Leave a comment Posted in Backstage, Black and White, Comedy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Romance, The Original, Workplace Tagged backstage, Bebe Daniels, before they were famous, Best Picture Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Busby Berkeley, chorus girls, Darryl F. Zanuck, Dick Powell, fading star, George Brent, Ginger Rogers, Guy Kibbe, Louise Beavers, Lyle Talbot, National Film Registry, old timer, producer, rising star, Ruby Keeler, theater, Una Merkel, Warner Baxter, Warner Brothers

October 28th, 2012: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Family, Ghost, Holiday, Horror, Movie of the Day, Musical, Remake, Short Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", Bing Crosby, Disney, farmer, farmers, ghost story, manipulative woman, RKO, teachers, Walt Disney, Washington Irving

September 13th, 2012: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sep13 by David Cole

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, The Original Tagged Anthony Newley, Aubrey Woods, Best Music Original Song Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, David Battley, Denise Nickerson, Diana Sowle, Dodo Denney, Günter Meisner, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Julie Dawn Cole, Leonard Stone, Leslie Bricusse, Mel Stuart, Michael Bollner, Paris Themmen, Peter Capell, Peter Ostrum, Peter Stuart, Roald Dahl, Roy Kinnear, Ursula Reit, Werner Heyking

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