Hello, Everybody! (movie 1933) review: This nonsensical musical provided stout radio and stage singer Kate Smith with a rare big-screen role. Randolph Scott and Sally Blane costar.
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Golden Dawn (movie 1930) review: Africa-set operetta has something to offend, amuse and/or bore everyone. Sweating his black makeup away, Noah Beery is the standout.
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Applause (movie 1929) review: Early Rouben Mamoulian musical shows what the newfangled talking pictures could achieve. Legendary torch singer Helen Morgan stars.
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Sweeney Todd Box Office: Tim Burton & Johnny Depp Horror Musical Rescued by International Moviegoers
Sweeney Todd box office: Tim Burton-Johnny Depp horror musical rescued by international audiences. Helena Bonham Carter costars.
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry box office: Starring a ‘gay’ Adam Sandler, Dennis Dugan’s lowbrow comedy topped the domestic chart.
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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…
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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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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…
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Funny Girl Press Release: The 1968 Best Picture nominee Funny Girl will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be…
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A Prairie Home Companion with Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, and Garrison Keillor. The sacred cows of the Hollywood firmament – or Hollywood barn, if you want to be really literal…
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The River 1951: Jean Renoir India-set classic. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be presenting a restored print of Jean Renoir’s 1951 drama The River. Though largely…
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Carmen Miranda costume + memorabilia exhibition billed as largest in the world to showcase extravagantly garbed Brazilian Bombshell +iconic Hollywood star.
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Princess Raccoon (movie 2005) review: Seijun Suzuki’s challenging but noteworthy musical mixes various cinematic genres and styles. Zhang Ziyi and Joe Odagiri star.
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Warner’s Doris Day DVD Collection box set include several of the bright star’s biggest hits – comedies and musicals – and even one of her rare (big-budget) flops.
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Pretty Western actress had promising Hollywood career derailed after a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical flop, but was kept busy opposite several cowboy stars.
‘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…
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…
Legendary Broadway producer Cy Feuer, 95, died this morning at his home in Manhattan. In addition to producing a number of award-winning Broadway musicals during his fifty-plus year career, Feuer…
June Haver: Hollywood actress who briefly became a nun has died Actress June Haver, the blonde star of several popular 20th Century Fox musicals such as Irish Eyes Are Smiling…