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April 7th, 2013: Easter Parade (1948)

Apr7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Period Film, Romance, Comedy, Event Film, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Musical, May-September, Holiday 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

January 18th, 2013: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Assumed Identity, Based on a Play, Comedy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Romance, Screwball Tagged alcoholic, Best Actor, Best Actress Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Cary Grant, class issues, comedic alcoholic, divorcee, ex-husband, ex-wife, Franz Waxman, George Cukor, interrupted wedding, James Stewart, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katharine Hepburn, lady reporter, Loew's, MGM, National Film Registry, photographer, publisher, reporter, wedding, wedding night

March 20th, 2012: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Comedy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Western Tagged "Battle of the Sexes", 20th Century Fox, abduction, Albert Hackett, axe dance, bar maid, barn raising, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Picture Nominee, brothers, cook, Dorothy Kingsley, Frances Goodrich, Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Julie Newmar, Loew's, MGM, mountain men, mountains, Oregon, Plutarch, rape of the Sabine women, Russ Tamblyn, sexism, small town, Stanley Donen, Stephen Vincent Brown, townies, waitress

October 6th, 2011: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance, Satire, Screwball, Slapstick Tagged Arthur Freed, backstage, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Gene Kelly, Hollywood, Jean Hagen, Loew's, MGM, prima donna, Rita Moreno, Stanley Donen

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

Sep1 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Full Reviews, Music, Musical, Naval, Reviews, Romance Tagged before they were famous, Best Actor Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Picture Nominee, Best Song Nominee, composer, Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, George Sidney, Joe Pasternak, Jose Iturbi, Kathryn Grayson, Loew's, Los Angeles, love triangle, MGM, pianist, Rags Ragland, sailors, shore leave, World War Two

August 23rd, 2011: On the Town (1949)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Play, Comedy, Mistaken Identity, Movie of the Day, Musical, Screwball, Slapstick Tagged "One Crazy Night", 24 hour pass, Adolphe Green, Alice Pearce, Ann Miller, anthropologist, Arthur Freed, ballet, Best Music, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, burlesque, cab driver, cavemen, Coney Island, dinosaur bones, Empire State Building, Florence Bates, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jerome Robbins, Jules Munshin, lady cab driver, Loew's, MGM, museum, New York City, nightclub montage, sailors, shore leave, Stanley Donen, Technicolor, Vera-Ellen

July 7th, 2011: Gaslight (1944)

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Leave a comment Posted in "Let's Drive X Mad", Based on a Play, Black and White, Drama, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Remake, Thriller, Women's Picture Tagged Angela Lansbury, Best Actor Nominee, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, Best Supporting Actress Nominee, Charles Boyer, George Cukor, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotton, Loew's, MGM, thief

April 9th 2011: Bataan

Apr9 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Black and White, Last Stand, Movie of the Day, Remake, War Movies Tagged Desi Arnaz, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Loew's, MGM, Robert Taylor, Tay Garnett, Thomas Mitchell, World War Two

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1 Comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Black and White, Full Reviews, Last Stand, Propaganda, Reviews, War Movies Tagged Barry Nelson, concientious objector, Desi Arnaz, Loew's, MGM, Philippines, Robert Taylor, Tay Garnett, Thomas Mitchell, World War Two

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