40 Carats 1973  PG, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Forty Carats
Director: Milton Katselas
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Eddie Albert, Gene Kelly, Binnie Barnes, Deborah Raffin, Billy Green Bush, Nancy Walker, Rosemary Murphy, Don Porter, Natalie Schafer
This film adaptation of the Broadway smash is about an older woman and her young daughter who both experience May/December romances.
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 An American in Paris 1951  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Musical / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Georges Guetary, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee, Dick Wessel, Paul Maxey, John Eldredge, Noel Neill, Madge Blake
Based on the music of George and Ira Gershwin, dance and music sequences contributed to the Academy Award for Best Picture. The story is about ex-GI Jerry (Gene Kelly) who stays in Paris after the war to study art and then falls in love with Lise (Leslie Caron). The film also won five other Oscars, and Director Vincente Minnelli received a nomination.
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 Anchors Aweigh 1945 N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Jose Iturbi, Dean Stockwell, Leon Ames, Edgar Kennedy, Steve Brodie, Pamela Britton, Grady Sutton, Rags Ragland, Billy Gilbert, Henry O'Neill, James Flavin, Sharon McManus
This story revolves around two sailors, Joe Brady (Gene Kelly) and Clarence Doolittle (Frank Sinatra), on shore leave who help aspiring singer Susan Abbott (Kathryn Grayson) get an audition. Love blooms between Joe and Susan. The highlight of this film is Kelly's dance with the animated mouse, Jerry. Among the nominations this film received for Academy Awards were Best Picture, Actor (Gene Kelly), Cinematography, and Song ("I Fall in Love Too Easily"). It won for Best Musical Score.
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Black Hand 1950  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli, Marc Lawrence, Frank Puglia, Barry Kelley, Mario Siletti, Carl Milletaire, Peter Brocco, Bert Freed
An Italian immigrant, Johnny Colombo (Gene Kelly), avenges the murder of his parents by the Black Hand (early name for what was to become the Mafia) in this story based on early 20th-century gangster activity in the United States.
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 Brigadoon 1954 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Barry Jones, Jimmy Thompson, Elaine Stewart, Albert Sharpe, Eddie Quillan, Hugh Laing, Tudor Owen
For one day every 100 years, a Scottish mythical village comes back to life. Two Americans, Tommy (Gene Kelly) and Jeff (Van Johnson), stumble into Brigadoon on that very day, and Tommy falls in love with Jean (Cyd Charisse). The film received three Academy Award nominations.
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The Cheyenne Social Club 1970 PG, 103 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon, Robert Middleton, John Dehner, Richard Collier, Charles Tyner, Jason Wingreen, Robert J. Wilke
Henry Fonda and James Stewart are entertaining as two old cowpokes that inherit a whorehouse in the Wild West.
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 Cover Girl 1944 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg, Eve Arden, Otto Kruger, Anita Colby, Leslie Brooks, Thurston Hall
Chorus girl Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth) wins a beauty contest that leads to an offer for a Broadway production. Now she must choose between fame and the man she loves: nightclub owner Danny (Gene Kelly). Hayworth's and Kelly's dancing make this film a delight. Jerome Kern-Ira Gershwin songs include "Long Ago and Far Away." As usual, Eve Arden's quick wit is a highlight.
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Crest of the Wave 1954 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Cast: Gene Kelly, John Justin, Bernard Lee, Jeff Richards, Sid James, Patrick Doonan, Patrick Barr
When a British war effort is in jeopardy due to the death of the scientist in charge of production, an American, Lieutenant Bradville (Gene Kelly), steps in to help with torpedo research.
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The Cross of Lorraine 1943 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia, Peter Lorre, Hume Cronyn, Wallace Ford, Jack Lambert, Donald Curtis
Surrendering to the Nazis under the false illusion of being sent home, Paul (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and Victor (Gene Kelly) suffer the brutality of concentration camp life–especially at the hands of Sergeant Berger (Peter Lorre). Useful war propaganda.
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Deep in My Heart 1954 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Comedy
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Jose Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel, Doe Avedon, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Henreid, Tamara Toumanova, Jim Backus, Gene Kelly, Russ Tamblyn, Paul Stewart, Isobel Elsom, Rosemary Clooney, Jane Powell, Ann Miller
Jose Ferrer is excellent in his role as Sigmund Romberg who comes to the United States in 1909 and begins his song-writing career in New York City. He is encouraged by Anna Mueller (Helen Traubel), and 40 years later he has written more than 2,000 songs as well as the scores for more than 80 plays, musical shows, and operettas–including "The Student Prince" and "The Desert Song." Romberg's songs, performed by musical stars, highlight this biography of his rise to fame and fortune.
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The Devil Makes Three 1952  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Andrew Marton
Cast: Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan, Claus Clausen, Wilfried Seyferth, Margot Hielscher, Annie Rosar, Otto Gebuhr
A former soldier, Captain Jeff Eliot (Gene Kelly), returns to Germany after the war to visit the family who saved his life and finds the parents have died, and their daughter, Willie (Pier Angeli), has fallen on hard times.
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Du Barry Was a Lady 1943 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: Roy Del Ruth
Cast: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien, Rags Ragland, Zero Mostel, Donald Meek, Douglass Dumbrille, George Givot, Louise Beavers
This musical comedy is the film adaptation of a popular Broadway show. Although most of the musical score was dropped from the movie version, two classics "Friendship" and "Do I Love You?" were saved and add to the lighthearted entertainment of this enjoyable film.
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 For Me and My Gal 1942 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly, Marta Eggerth, Ben Blue, Horace McNally, Richard Quine, Keenan Wynn
This film marks Gene Kelly's movie debut. The story is set during World War I and features Judy Garland and George Murphy, along with Kelly, as vaudevillians trying to get their breaks by playing the Palace. Classic songs include "For Me and My Gal" and "When You Wore a Tulip."
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Gigot 1962  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Lafebvre, Albert Remy, Yvonne Constant, Jacques Marin
Gigot (Jackie Gleason) is a deaf-mute custodian who barely earns enough for his own subsistence, but he comes to the aid of a prostitute and her little girl. 1 User Review
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| | A tribute to Jackie Gleason | 1fatts 03/14/2007 | I have not seen the film in forty years, and my memory of it is no doubt flawed.
Perhaps if I saw it now, as a more expreinced, far more aged man, I might find the plot forced and the acting hammy. I certainly remember that there was maore slapstick for slapstick's sake than I thought called for, even way back then.
But Jackie Gleason broke my heart. The scene of the mute trying to explain God to the little girl is still somewhere in my mind as a kind of icon of decency, frustrated in its inability to communicate.
I grew up with the Jackie Gleason Show, and his work in The Hustler and Requiem for a Heavyweight demonstrated how fine a seriious actor lay beneath the surface of Ralph Kramden and the Poor Soul. Gigot is not a great film, but it is memorable for Gleason's work. And as his "silent film", it is unique. |
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A Guide for the Married Man 1967 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Carl Reiner, Claire Kelly, Jason Wingreen, Eddie Quillan, Robert Patten, Many Guest Stars
Ed Stander (Robert Morse) finds a willing pupil in Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) who, after 12 years of marriage, wants some extra-marital excitement. Several stars demonstrate Stander's many methods of cheating on one's spouse.
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 Hello, Dolly! 1969 G, 129 min.
Genre: Family / Musica / Comedy / Romancel
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong, E.J. Peaker, Marianne McAndrew, Fritz Feld, Richard Collier, J. Pat O'Malley, Danny Lockin, Joyce Ames, Tommy Tune, Judy Knaiz, David Hurst, Richard Monahan
In this musical version of "The Matchmaker," Dolly (Barbra Streisand) works to unite young couples. She is hired by "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder (Walter Matthau) to find him a mate. Dolly is interested in Horace for herself, yet she goes through the superficial motions of finding him a bride. Complications ensue, but, by story's end, Dolly and Horace will live happily ever after. Three Academy Awards were won and four other nominations were received, including Best Picture.
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 Inherit the Wind 1960 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Dick York, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Florence Eldridge, Elliott Reid, Philip Coolidge, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr., Donna Anderson, Paul Hartman, Jimmy Boyd, Norman Fell, Hope Summers
Charles Darwin's theories of evolution go on trial in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee where Clarence Darrow (Spencer Tracy) and William Jennings Bryan (Fredric March) argue the merits of teaching the new science in the classroom. 1 User Review
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| | Battle of the Giants | 1fatts 06/16/2009 | The story is that when this movie was being shot, actors on the lot would find their way to the set to just hang out and watch the battle of the giants: Spencer Tracy and Fredric March. It was a good script; no one could direct courtroom like Stanley Kramer; nice casting; great set: but it is, in the end, March and Tracy eating the scenery and creating character.
Other good things deserve to be said about this movie, but it's watching the two actors of their generation pull out the stops that overshadows everything else. |
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Invitation to the Dance 1957 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Claire Sombert, Igor Youskevitch, David Paltenghi, Daphne Dale, Claude Bessy, Tommy Rall, Carol Haney, Tamara Toumanova, Belita
Three short stories are performed in three ballets in this film that contains no dialogue; only mime and dance tell the story. The ballets are "Ring Around The Rosy," "Sinbad, the Sailor," and "Circus." This is an interesting look at film history; in this experiment, the forum was rejected by audiences.
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It's a Big Country 1951  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Janet Leigh, William Powell, Marjorie Main, George Murphy, Keefe Brasselle, James Whitmore
This film is comprised of vignettes depicting diverse groups of people making up the United States, including the ideas and talents of the people. However, it rambles on and isn't really the advertisement it apparently was meant to be.
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It's Always Fair Weather 1955 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd, David Burns, Jay C. Flippen, Hal March, Paul Maxey, Peter Leeds
Three veterans meet for a 10th-year reunion and find their lives have not gone the way they planned. The situation takes a turn for the better when a television show provides the chance to work out difficulties–but not without creating more problems!
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Les Girls 1957 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor, Jacques Bergerac, Leslie Phillips, Henry Daniell, Patrick Macnee, Philip Tonge, Nestor Paiva
This entertaining musical revolves around courtroom testimony of three dancers. Each has a different memory of the incident in question: a tragic love affair.
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Let's Make Love 1960 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, David Burns, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Milton Berle, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Madge Kennedy
Marilyn Monroe singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" makes this light, musical comedy worthwhile. Will rich Montand get her?
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Love Is Better Than Ever 1952 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Larry Parks, Elizabeth Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson, Tom Tully, Elinor Donahue, Gene Kelly, Ann Doran, Kathleen Freeman, Alex Gerry, Dick Wessel
Jud Parker (Larry Parks) is a Broadway vaudeville agent who meets and falls in love with Anastacia (Elizabeth Taylor), a dance teacher who has just arrived in the big city.
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Marjorie Morningstar 1958 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner, Ed Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Martin Balsam, Ruta Lee, George Tobias
A young Jewish girl, Marjorie (Natalie Wood), falls in love with Noel Airman (Gene Kelly) during a season apprenticing with a summer-stock troupe. Common sense prevails, however, when Marjorie marries Wally Wronken (Martin Milner) who offers less excitement but, instead, pledges true love and security.
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 On the Town 1949  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Musical / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Hans Conried, Vera-Ellen, Florence Bates, Alice Pearce, George Meader, Don Brodie, Bea Benaderet, Tom Dugan, Milton Kibbee, Dick Wessel
Three sailors–Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra), and Ozzie (Jules Munshin)–get 24-hour passes to enjoy liberty in New York City. While on leave, each finds romance. Gabey falls in love with dancer Ivy Smith (Vera-Ellen), Chip finds romance with cabbie Brunhilde (Betty Garrett), and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) becomes enchanted with paleontology student Claire (Ann Miller). And a great 24 hours are enjoyed by all in one of the best musicals ever made. The film won an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
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Pilot #5 1943 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Alan Baxter, Dick Simmons, Frank Puglia, Steven Geray, Howard Freeman, Frank Ferguson
This World War II film features Franchot Tone as an anti-Fascist who dive bombs his own airplane into a Japanese carrier to help defeat the Japanese war effort.
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 The Pirate 1948 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, George Zucco, Lester Allen, Lola Deem, Ellen Ross, Mary Jo Ellis
Manuella (Judy Garland) is a Caribbean girl happily engaged to Don Pedro (Walter Slezak)–until a dashing "pirate" (Gene Kelly) sails into her life.
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 Singin' in the Rain 1952 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Rita Moreno, Cyd Charisse, Douglas Fowley, Millard Mitchell, Madge Blake, King Donovan, Kathleen Freeman, Mae Clarke, Stuart Holmes
This is the film featuring Gene Kelly's memorable dance through the rain-splattered street. Kelly plays 1927's silent film star Don Lockwood who has teamed up professionally with Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), but he prefers spending his personal time with aspiring actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds). Now, Don and Lina are set to film their first talkie. Don has no problems, while Lina's shrill voice does not adapt to the microphone. Don finds the solution to the problem by dubbing in Kathy's voice to replace Lina's. This film represents one of the best musicals ever. The songs include "Singin' in the Rain," "You were Meant for Me," "You are My Lucky Star," and "The Broadway Melody." Jean Hagen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. 1 User Review
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| | As Good as it Gets | 1fatts 07/22/2007 | The script is funny. The music is great. The Gene Kelly/Donald O'Connor dancing duets are magic. Debbie Reynolds looks younger than Princess Leia ever did. Jean Hagen steals every scene she is in -- Steals it? She picks it up, tucks it under her arm and carries it away.
Best Line: "I make more money than Calvin Coolidge . . . put together!"
Favorite Trivia: At the end of the film, Debbie Reynolds is supposedly dubbing a song which the Jean Hagen character is mouthing because she cannot sing. In reality, in this one song in the film, Debbie Reynolds is being dubbed by . . . Jean Hagen!
This one is on everyone's list of top ten musicals ever made. But if you know anything about movies, you already know that. |
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Summer Stock 1950  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, Phil Silvers, Ray Collins, Hans Conried, Carleton Carpenter, Paul E. Burns
Jane Falbury (Judy Garland) lives on a farm in a New England town when a troupe of actors arrives, and they all agree to "put on a show" in Jane's barn. 1 User Review
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| | lover of musicals 07/10/2007 | | If you like musicals, this is a must. Gene Kelly and July Garland do very well together in this show. They are both naturals. Two of my favorites as a young girl. A little slapstick with Eddie Bracken, and Phil Slivers, not to mention the Gloria DeHaven and Marjorie Main. I have this as a VHS and a DVD. Keeps me busy as age keeps creeping up on me. We need more of this type of beauty and laughter in todays world. |
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold, Jules Munshin, Richard Lane, Tom Dugan, Douglas Fowley, Wilton Graff, Ramon Blackburn, Royce Blackburn, Si Jenks, Joi Lansing, Dick Wessel
This story about the early days of baseball centers on two players –Dennis Ryan and Eddie O'Brien (Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly)–who play for the Wolves, a team owned by K.C. Higgins (Esther Williams). They get into trouble gambling and then work out their financial problems through vaudeville performances during the off-season. Director Busby Berkeley's last film.
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 That's Dancing! 1985 G, 105 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Jack Haley Jr.
Cast: Gene Kelly, Sammy Davis Jr., Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli, Ray Bolger, Bill Robinson, June Haver, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire, James Cagney, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland
Music fans will enjoy this compilation of dance routines from numerous films that span half a century.
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That's Entertainment! 1974  G, 127 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Documentary
Director: Jack Haley Jr.
Cast: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Liza Minnelli, Donald O'Connor, Frank Sinatra, Mickey Rooney, June Allyson, Ray Bolger, Cyd Charisse, Maurice Chevalier
This entertaining film contains classics from M.G.M. movies over a 29-year period from 1929 to 1958 and includes many stars as hosts.
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That's Entertainment!, Part III 1994 G, 113 min.
Genre: Family / Documentary / Musical
Director: Bud Friedgen, Michael J. Sheridan
Cast: June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Lena Horne, Howard Keel, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Esther Williams, Joan McCracken, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Ray Bolger, Jeanette MacDonald
This third version of "That's Entertainment" is every bit as good as the previous ones. This time, out-takes are included in the film clips of M.G.M. classics from 1929 to 1954.
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That's Entertainment, Part II 1976 G, 130 min.
Genre: Family / Documentary / Musical / Comedy / Drama
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Kathryn Grayson, Doris Day, Jeanette MacDonald, Greer Garson, Nelson Eddy, Leslie Caron, Ann Miller, Ann Sothern
Hosts Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly introduce classic M.G.M. film clips in this well-made documentary filled with snapshots of film history that include musicals, dramas, and comedies.
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Thousands Cheer 1943 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Astor, John Boles, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Frank Morgan, Dick Simmons
This film, made to help the Allied war effort during World War II, is about a colonel's daughter (Kathryn Grayson) who puts together a show to entertain the troops. About all of the MGM stars (and bands) are out for this one.
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The Three Musketeers 1948 N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Vincent Price, Gig Young, Angela Lansbury, Keenan Wynn, Reginald Owen, Frank Morgan, John Sutton, Robert Coote, Ian Keith, Patricia Medina, Richard Wyler
For the sheer fun of spotting many MGM stars, this is a good rendition of the Alexandre Dumas classic novel about D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly) and the musketeers'–Athos, Porthos, and Aramis (Van Heflin, Gig Young, and Robert Coote)–reaction to Louis XIII (Frank Morgan) and the calculating Cardinal Richelieu (Vincent Price).
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Tunnel of Love 1958 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young, Gia Scala, Elisabeth Fraser, Doodles Weaver, Elizabeth Wilson, Charles Wagenheim, Robert Williams, Vikki Dougan, Esquire Trio, Sid Melton, Cosmo Sardo, Donald Kerr, Howard Negley
There are really funny things that happen during the adoption process, and a married couple, Isolde and Augie Poole (Doris Day and Richard Widmark), encounter more than their share when they register with the Rock-a-Bye adoption agency. When the agency sends out Estelle Novick (Gia Scala) to interview Isolde and Augie, their neighbor Dick (Gig Young) hits on her, and Estelle decides that Augie is not a good candidate for fatherhood. Augie decides to change Estelle's mind by taking her out to dinner. Matters get out of hand, and Augie wakes up in a motel room with a hangover. Nine months later, the agency tells Augie and Isolde that they have a baby for them. The baby bears a striking resemblance to Augie. Is there more to this than meets the eye?
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Viva Knievel! 1977  PG, 104 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Evel Knievel, Gene Kelly, Marjoe Gortner, Lauren Hutton, Leslie Nielsen, Red Buttons, Cameron Mitchell, Frank Gifford, Dabney Coleman, Albert Salmi
A motorcycle daredevil (Evel Knievel) tries to stop an illegal drug plot in this poor attempt to make the stunt driver into a movie star.
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What a Way to Go! 1964 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Cummings, Margaret Dumont, Dean Martin, Reginald Gardiner, Roy Gordon, Fifi D'Orsay, Lou Nova, Maurice Marsac, Wally Vernon, Jane Wald
Poor Louisa (Shirley MacLaine)–every time she marries, her new husband dies. Eventually, she has a whole lot of money that she is trying to give to the IRS, but officials suspect that she is insane and send her to a psychiatrist, Dr. Victor Stephanson (Robert Cummings), Louisa's story unfolds as she tells Stephanson about her marriages. The first one involves her choice of poor shopkeeper Edgar (Dick Van Dyke) over wealthy Leonard (Dean Martin), but Edgar works himself to death. Next, Louisa marries inventor Larry (Paul Newman) who becomes wealthy and dies. Then, she marries business tycoon Rod (Robert Mitchum) who retires, becomes a farmer, and is killed by a bull. Finally, Louisa marries entertainer Jerry (Gene Kelly), and he becomes a star and is crushed to death by a mob of his fans. All died trying to make Louisa happy, and now she believes that the money they made is cursed.
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Words and Music 1948 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Ann Sothern, Perry Como, Janet Leigh, Mel Torme
This is the biography of Lorenz Hart who, as part of the team with Richard Rogers, wrote so many great Broadway shows. A highlight of the film is Gene Kelly's dance to "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue."
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 Xanadu 1980  PG, 93 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Musical / Romance
Director: Robert Greenwald
Cast: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan, Dimitra Arliss, Katie Hanley, Sandahl Bergman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Coral Browne, Fred McCarren, Marla V. Langston, Madison Arnold, David Tress, Matt Lattanzi, Bebe Drake
Kira (Olivia Newton-John) is an angel who returns to Earth to inspire a young artist, Sonny Malone (Michael Beck). Years before, Kira had inspired wealthy, but older, Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), and she conspires for Sonny and Danny to meet. They become friends and decide to turn an abandoned building into a nightclub featuring 1940s and 1980s music, neon lights, and roller skating–and Xanadu is created. Now it is time for Kira to move on, but she and Sonny have fallen in love. Will they be able to convince the gods to allow them to stay together?
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The Young Girls of Rochefort 1968 G, 126 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Francoise Dorleac, Jacques Riberolles, Grover Dale, Genevieve Thenier, Henri Cremieux, Pamela Hart, Leslie North, Patrick Jeantet, Rene Bazart
Every word is sung and every step is choreographed in this film about sisters Delphine (Catherine Deneuve) and Solange (Francoise Dorleac). They help their mother Madam Yvonne (Danielle Darrieux) with her cafe in the Town Square and run a music and ballet school in Rochefort, France, in their spare time. Although happy while entertaining on stage, Delphine and Solange lack romance in their real lives. Now, the town's annual fair attracts new romantic possibilities in the form of painter Maxence (Jacques Perrin) and tourist Andy Miller (Gene Kelly) as songs and dancing fill the screen.
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Ziegfeld Follies 1946 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: William Powell, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Fanny Brice
This musical features William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld who looks down from Heaven and dreams of this film that is chock-full of MGM musical stars.
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| 1. 40 Carats (1973)
aka: Forty Carats
2. An American in Paris (1951)
3. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
4. Black Hand (1950)
5. Brigadoon (1954)
6. The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
7. Christmas Holiday (1944)
8. Cover Girl (1944)
9. Crest of the Wave (1954)
10. The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
11. Deep in My Heart (1954)
12. The Devil Makes Three (1952)
13. Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
14. For Me and My Gal (1942)
15. Gigot (1962)
16. A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
17. The Happy Road (1957)
18. Hello, Dolly! (1969)
19. Inherit the Wind (1960)
20. Invitation to the Dance (1957)
21. It's a Big Country (1951)
22. It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
23. Les Girls (1957)
24. Let's Make Love (1960)
25. Living in a Big Way (1947)
26. Love Is Better Than Ever (1952)
27. Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
28. On the Town (1949)
29. Pilot #5 (1943)
30. The Pirate (1948)
31. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
32. Summer Stock (1950)
33. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
34. That's Dancing! (1985)
35. That's Entertainment! (1974)
36. That's Entertainment!, Part III (1994)
37. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
38. Thousands Cheer (1943)
39. The Three Musketeers (1948)
40. Tunnel of Love (1958)
41. Viva Knievel! (1977)
42. What a Way to Go! (1964)
43. Words and Music (1948)
44. Xanadu (1980)
45. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1968)
46. Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
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