Bye Bye Birdie lobby card (top); Bobby Rydell, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie (bottom) A digitally restored print of George Sidney’s 1963 Elvis Presley-inspired satirical musical Bye Bye Birdie, starring Janet…
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The Merry Widow with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier. The Merry Widow is neither one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most discussed nor best-liked films. Film critics and historians generally tend to…
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Great singing in the clip above, huh? Well, that’s probably why Audrey Hepburn didn’t get a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for My Fair Lady. (See previous “Biggest Oscar Snubs”:…
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Christmas films: Grease with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on TCM. Despite an array of mostly uninspired songs and dance numbers, the Randal Kleiser-directed, 1950s-set musical Grease was a gigantic…
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Kathryn Grayson in Kiss Me Kate, with Howard Keel. Kathryn Grayson, who died at the age of 88 last February, is Turner Classic Movies’ Tuesday, Aug. 10, star. Kathryn Grayson…
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South Pacific movie: 1958 musical toplining Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, and Juanita Hall was a major box office hit. Tonight at 7:30 p.m., a recently restored…
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Ken Russell’s Tommy: Roger Daltrey as the deaf/mute/blind pinball-playing Jesus figure and his freak followers Ken Russell’s 1975 film from The Who’s rock opera Tommy, starring Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver…
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Kathryn Grayson, the soprano-voiced star of Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and several other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of the 1940s and early 1950s, died yesterday (Feb. 17) in her…
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Esther Williams: Swimsuit Star on TCM DVD box set featuring culturally and sociologically curious aquamusicals Million Dollar Mermaid + Easy to Love.
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Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas. I can only think of one Elvis Presley song I like: “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” I don’t know if he sings…
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Michael Jackson kids and friends at singer’s Holmby Hills mansion. Michael Jackson kids & friends Provided by real estate developer Mohamed Hadid (via image.net), the above photo shows Hadid (left)…
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Michael Jackson, one of the two or three biggest pop-music icons of the second half of the 20th century, died of a heart attack at the UCLA Medical Center in…
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From the moment The Gang’s All Here opens with a nightclub production number presented on a stage as big as a football field, Busby Berkeley’s fast-paced Technicolor musical delivers the…
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https://youtu.be/ojo3I59Gn6cVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: CARMEN MIRANDA - O QUE É QUE A BAIANA TEM (https://youtu.be/ojo3I59Gn6c) Carmen Miranda – known as the “Brazilian Bombshell” in the U.S.;…
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The Broadway Melody was one of the biggest box office hits of the 1920s. Released by MGM in early 1929, the musical melodrama about two show-biz sisters in love with…
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Bill Condon’s Dreamgirls, a shoo-in for one of the five Best Picture slots in 2006 (a shoo-in that failed to make the cut), will be screened as the next feature…
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Dercy Gonçalves Dercy Gonçalves dies at 101: Brazilian show business icon was a stage, film + television star Dercy Gonçalves, a Brazilian stage, film, television, and carnival superstar for nearly…
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A new print of Alan Parker’s 1980 musical Fame will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar” series on Monday,…
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Cyd Charisse, the long-legged dancer of about a dozen MGM musicals, died today at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Charisse, who was 86 (or 87, depending on the…
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Africa-set operetta Golden Dawn has something to offend, amuse and/or bore everyone. Sweating his black makeup away, Noah Beery is standout.
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Rouben Mamoulian’s early musical Applause showed what the newfangled talking pictures could achieve. Legendary torch singer Helen Morgan stars.
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‘Saturday Night Fever’ movie: John Travolta disco dances at Academy Theater A newly struck print of the John Badham-directed 1977 John Travolta movie Saturday Night Fever, a mix of social…
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New York City’s Film Forum is presenting an unusual film series this spring 2007: Low(er)-budget classic musicals from the 1930s to the early 1950s. In those films you won’t find…
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Early talkies on TCM: Rudy Vallee in The Vagabond Lover + Tanned Legs & Spring Is Here In the U.S., Turner Classic Movies will be showing three early talkies: The…
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Chicago with Phyllis Haver. Image: A.M.P.A.S. A restored print of the little-seen 1928 silent film Chicago will be screened on August 16 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
Swing Time movie: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (top); choreographer Hermes Pan, Fred Astaire, and director George Stevens on the set of Swing Time (bottom). The George Stevens-directed Ginger Rogers-Fred…
Ginger Rogers is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of March. Most of the films – perhaps all of them – have been shown on TCM before. So, don’t…
Starring Judy Garland and directed by Victor Fleming, the 1939 Best Picture nominee The Wizard of Oz will be screened, digitally from a new 4K restoration, as the final feature…
Marni Nixon: Making Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, and Audrey Hepburn sound more melodious. Marni Nixon, the voice behind, among others, Deborah Kerr in The King and I and An Affair…
Repo! The Genetic Opera by Darren Lynn Bousman. Bill Moseley & Terrance Zdunich discuss Repo: The Genetic Opera On Friday, July 18, I got to sit with horror-film acting legend…
The nonsensical 1933 musical Hello, Everybody! provided stout radio and stage singer Kate Smith with a rare big-screen role. Randolph Scott costars.
Molly Beck Ferguson sings for homeless man William Fiala, who also happens to be the co-director of Cubicle: The Musicle I’ve known Tibor Szakaly for a couple of years. Each…