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October 6th, 2014: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Oct6 by Professor Mortis

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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

October 31st, 2013: Meet Me In St. Louis

Oct31 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Family, Movie of the Day, Musical, Period Film, Romance Tagged Arthur Freed, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture Nominee, Best Original Song Nominee, Chill Wills, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Christmas tree, father, father-daughter relationship, Halloween, Halloween costumes, Hugh Marlowe, Judy Garland, June Lockhart, Loew's, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, MGM, mother, mother-daugther relationship, nostalgia, sisters, St. Louis, teens, turn of the century, Vincente Minnelli

April 7th, 2013: Easter Parade (1948)

Apr7 by Professor Mortis

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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

May 24th, 2012: Brigadoon (1954)

May24 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Romance, The Original Tagged "love breaks the spell", alcoholic, Arthur Freed, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, curse, cursed town, Cyd Charisse, deus ex machina, Elaine Stewart, Gene Kelly, love at first sight, MGM, miracle, New York City, Scotland, Van Johnson, village, Vincente Minnelli, warnings from townsfolk

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

Aug23 by Professor Mortis

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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

Brigadoon (1954)

Aug17 by Professor Mortis

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4 Comments Posted in Fantasy, Full Reviews, Musical, Reviews, Romance, The Original Tagged "love breaks the spell", alcoholic, Arthur Freed, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, curse, cursed town, Cyd Charisse, deus ex machina, Elaine Stewart, Gene Kelly, love at first sight, MGM, miracle, New York City, Scotland, Tudor Owen, Van Johnson, village, Vincente Minnelli, warnings from townsfolk

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Jul29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Based on a Play, Biopic, Comedy, Event Film, Full Reviews, Musical, Period Film, Reviews, Screwball, Slapstick Tagged "Battle of the Sexes", "Native American Face", American Indian, annoying children, Arthur Freed, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture, Betty Hutton, circus, Howard Keel, hunters, illiterate, Irving Berlin, J. Carrol Naish, Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern, MGM, New York City, rednecks, sexism, sharpshooters, Technicolor, travelling show, troubled production

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