Biography: Eleanor Powell |
Nimble-footed musical star Eleanor Powell was 11 years old when she was discovered by vaudeville kiddie-revue entrepreneur Gus Edwards. At 17, Powell made her New York debut as a star tap dancer at the Casino de Paris. She subsequently featured in... more
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Length: 56min
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Cast: Gene Kelly Mickey Rooney Judy Garland Lena Horne Ann Sothern Mary Astor Red Skelton
Tags: Musical Romance Musical
Length: 126min
Storywise, Thousands Cheer is thin stuff indeed. Insouciant PFC Eddy Marsh (Gene Kelly) wants to put on a Big Show for his fellow serviceman. Along the way, Eddy falls in love with Kathryn Jones (Kathryn Grayson), the daughter of Colonel William Jones...
Cast: Vincente Minnelli
Tags: Musical Comedy Action Musical Comedy Romantic Comedy Spy Film
Length: 102min
In later years, director Vincente Minnelli would dismiss I Dood It as his worst picture, though a more deserving candidate for that "honor" would be Minnelli's valedictory film A Matter of Time. In this remake of Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage, Red...
Length: 86min
Originally titled simply Sensations, this musical comedy was the final starring film for dancer Eleanor Powell and the final film, period, for comedian W.C. Fields. Powell is the prize client of flamboyant press agent Eugene Pallette. Dennis O'Keefe,...
Cast: Lionel Barrymore Eleanor Powell
Tags: Musical Drama Showbiz Drama Musical
Length: 111min
The 1924 George Gershwin stage hit Lady Be Good was brought to the screen by MGM; any resemblance (beyond the Gershwin score) to the original play is purely accidental. The MGM scriveners came up with a new story concerning married songwriters Ann...
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Cast: Fred Astaire Preston Sturges Frank Morgan
Tags: Musical Drama Showbiz Drama Musical Backstage Musical
Length: 103min
MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a clothesline upon which to hang sleek and opulent musical production numbers by Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell -- particularly a...
Cast: Ray Bolger
Tags: Romance Musical Musical Romance
Length: 118min
More burdened with leaden production numbers than plot, Rosalie took Sigmund Romberg and George Gershwin's 1928 Broadway hit, threw out most of the songs, including &"How Long Has This Been Going On?," but retained the spindly story of the incognito...
Cast: Frank Sinatra
Tags: Comedy of Errors Musical Comedy Musical
Length: 95min
This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens with Tommy Dorsey and his band swinging through &"Hawaiian War Chant" while Eleanor Powell taps away. Powell, it turns out,...
Cast: George Burns
Length: 83min
George Burns and Gracie Allen made their last screen appearance together in the 1939 MGM musical Honolulu; indeed, it would be Burns' last film until his 1976 "comeback" in The Sunshine Boys. The nonsensical plotline is carried by Robert Young as...
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Tags: Musical Backstage Musical
Length: 110min
This third entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series may not have been the biggest or best, but thanks to a masterpiece of casting it is one of the most memorable of the batch. Signed by MGM in 1935, 15-year-old Judy Garland made her first feature-film...
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