Give a Girl a Break 1953  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Debbie Reynolds, Helen Wood, Bob Fosse, Donna Martell, Kurt Kasznar, Richard Anderson, Lurene Tuttle, Larry Keating
When the star (Donna Martell) quits her Broadway show, three aspiring starlets (Marge Champion, Debbie Reynolds, and Helen Wood) compete for the vacant role.
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 Show Boat 1951  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Sterling, William Warfield, Adele Jergens, Lief Erickson, Norman Leavitt, Fuzzy Knight, Emory Parnell, Regis Toomey
This remake of the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical features Kathryn Grayson in the role of Magnolia, the daughter of the Mississippi riverboat's Captain Andy Hawk (Joe E. Brown). Magnolia takes over the riverboat show's starring role when Julie (Ava Gardner) is forced to leave after local police learn that she is not White but is married to White man Steve (Robert Sterling), and interracial marriages are forbidden. Gambler Gaylord Ravenal (Howard Keel) takes the role of Magnolia's leading man, and they fall in love and marry. But, Gaylord's gambling will prove to be a big problem–until he cleans up his act and returns to Magnolia and their baby daughter. Song standards, such as "Old Man River" (sung beautifully by William Warfield), "Bill," and "Make Believe" make this an enjoyable film.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle 1939  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Etienne Girardot, Janet Beecher, Rolfe Sedan, Donald MacBride, Marge Champion, Leonid Kinskey
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers portray the popular dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle who made ballroom dancing popular in the early 20th century.
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The Swimmer 1968  PG, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Perry
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Kim Hunter, Charles Drake, Marge Champion, Janet Landgard, Tony Bickley, Bill Fiore, Joan Rivers, Rose Gregorio
This is the film adaptation of John Cheever's dream-like, insightful story of Neddy Merrill (Burt Lancaster) who swims home via his neighbors' swimming pools and learns something about his own existence in each pool.
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Three for the Show 1955  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: H.C. Potter
Cast: Betty Grable, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, Jack Lemmon, Myron McCormick, Paul Harvey, Willard Waterman, Hal K. Dawson, Gene Wesson, Eugene Borden, Bess Flowers, Aileen Carlyle, Rudy Lee, Henry Slate, Robert Williams
Musical comedy star Julie (Betty Grable) is married to her dancing partner Vernon (Gower Champion) when–out of the blue–her "dead" husband Marty Stewart (Jack Lemmon) returns home from World War II. Now, Julie has two husbands, begins to like the idea, and chooses to stay with both while she decides which one she is more in love with.
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| 1. Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)
2. Give a Girl a Break (1953)
3. The Party (1968)
4. Show Boat (1951)
5. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
6. The Swimmer (1968)
7. Three for the Show (1955)
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