Biography: Marge Champion |
An American dancer and actress, Marge Champion was one half of the "Gower and Marge Champion" dance team. She began dancing as a child under the instruction of her father, Ernest Belcher, who was a noted Hollywood ballet coach. As a teen, she served... more
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Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007)
Length: 84min
Jerry Herman is a singer and songwriter who rose to fame on the strength of several hit Broadway shows, launched at a time when the rise of ock and roll was leading many to doubt the future of the American musical theater. Born and raised in Jersey...
Cast: Peter Sellers Marge Champion Henry Mancini Blake Edwards
Tags: Comedy Comedy of Manners Farce Slapstick
Length: 99min
Peter Sellers plays a bumbling foreigner once again (but this time he's not from France) in this cult-favorite comedy. Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an accident-prone actor from India who has come to California, hoping to make a name for himself...
Cast: George Sanders Esther Williams
Tags: Historical Film Musical Adventure Musical Romance Fantasy Adventure Parody/Spoof
Length: 96min
Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her silliest film. Based on Robert Sherwood's satirical play The Road to Rome, the film cast as Williams as Amytis, fiancee of...
Cast: Betty Grable Jack Lemmon
Length: 93min
Three for the Show is a musical remake of the 1940 comedy Too Many Husbands, which in turn was based on a play by Somerset Maugham. In her next-to-last film, Betty Grable plays Julie, a popular musical comedy stars whose husband Marty (Jack Lemmon) is...
Cast: Debbie Reynolds Bob Fosse Stanley Donen
Tags: Musical Comedy Drama Musical
Length: 84min
After providing excellent support in previous MGM musicals, the singing-dancing team of Marge and Gower Champion were rewarded with their own starring vehicle, Give a Girl a Break. Marge plays one of three actresses competing for the leading role in a...
Cast: Red Skelton
Tags: Musical
Length: 105min
The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the property and refilmed it under the title Lovely to Look At. Inheriting one-half of a Parisian dress salon from his late aunt, Red...
Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
Tags: Musical Musical Romance Musical Drama
Length: 92min
The husband and wife dance team of Marge Champion and Gower Champion are aptly cast as Chuck and Pamela Hubbard, a pair of happily married hoofers, in this musical. The Hubbards have dreamed for years of taking their act to Broadway, and after much...
Cast: Ava Gardner Joe E. Brown
Tags: Period Film Musical Drama Musical Romance Musical
Length: 107min
The third and (to date) last film version of the Edna Ferber/Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical +Show Boat falls just short of greatness but is still a whale of a show. Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson are in fine fettle as irresponsible gambler...
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