Gene Kelly & Frank Sinatra

[Dillinger]

Flipping through the TV stations I hit Turner Classic movies and just caught the end of "Anchor's Away" - I love that move AND... "On The Town" (Stanley Donner - Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra again) is on next... followed by "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" (Kelly, Sinatra) - I think its going to be a late night tonight watching old musicals!

 

[Ice Cold]

Usually I avoid AMC until the weekend, when I can devote my time to it. But good choices they have on.

 

[Dillinger]

I've always loved Gene Kelly movies - they're the kind of films you can see over and over again. Fred Astaire films too.

 

[tigerjen]

I LOOOOOOVE "On The Town"!! Wonderful movie set
right in good ole NYC!

I know this one movie I'm about to mention does not have
Sinatra in it, but it does have Gene Kelly......"An American
In Paris"......I love that movie.......very colorful.....awesome
musical score.......esp. the 18 minute dance sequence
towards the end of the movie.......



tigerjen

 

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[Dillinger]

American in Paris is one of my favorites - along with Singing in the Rain.

 

[Ice Cold]

I prefer Frank with Ginger Rogers.

Ahhh.. you're so conventional LL

 

[Dillinger]

I prefer Frank with Ginger Rogers.

I love those films too. Kelly and Astaire had very different styles - but both were awesome.

 

[tigerjen]

American in Paris is one of my favorites - along with Singing in the Rain.

damn....I forgot about "Singing in the Rain"........

 

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[amelia]

i love gene kelly...singing in the rain is one of my top ten fav. movies

 

[nasty]

Singin In The Rain is a GREAT movie. Anyone ever seen Top Hat?

edited to say-Hi, lovely Miss Hornee. I had thought you had left.

 

[Ice Cold]

You weren't suppose to quote me before I edited...

D'oh!!!! Nobody warned me... I'm too quick on that trigger finger.

 

[Dillinger]

Singing in The Rain is in my Top 10 too...

Yes - I've seen Top Hat a few times... *smile*

 

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[celiaKitten]

One of my faves that has Louis Armstrong, Frank and Bing, and Grace Kelly

"High Society"

 

[Dillinger]

The first Ann Miller dance number (in the Museum of Anthropology) just ended... what an incredible dancer she was... a total babe too! (God I'm so fucking hard now!)

 

[Dillinger]

Vera Ellen. Absolutely gorgeous!

And that waist - I didn't think it possible for someone to have that small a waist!

http://www.gorilla.net/~mikeday/veraellen/images/Cheesecake/ccg21.jpg

And those legs!

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4439/veraellen/happy.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4439/veraellen/ve_scot.jpg

Oh - and here's a pic of her and Gene:

http://www.gorilla.net/~mikeday/veraellen/images/On%20the%20Town/OTT10.jpg

And the cast of On The Town:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4439/veraellen/back_ott.jpg

 

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[tigerjen]

Yeah... like we need to bring back the waist squeezers and start removing ribs again...


By the way, they just don't make movies like they use to.

I do miss the movie musicals though........and I agree that
movies aren't made in the same way they were back
then...........

 

[just pet]

I love these movies. Singing in the Rain is one of the few movies I own.


Two of my favorite Astaire movies:

Daddy Long Legs
Royal Wedding

 

[Basia]

Kelly and Sinatra do nothing for me. However, give me Clark Gabel, now he is hours of entertainment. I loved him in Gone with the Wind.

 

[Reverie]

I have a passion for old movies. My two all time favorites: The Philadelphia Story (High Society was nice but can't compare to the Hepburn/Grant version), and Cat on a hot tin roof.

Favorite Gene Kelly movie: Brigadoon

Favorite Sinatra movie: Guys and Dolls(Brando was hot too!)

Favorite Fred Astaire movie:Easter Parade

 

[celiaKitten]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was another great one. Nothing like "Bless your beautiful hide" to make you laugh.

Yes, the Hepburn "Philidelphia Story" was good, but for entirely different reasons. High Society was a musical, and it had Bing and Sachmo ... and they just rock.

 

[Purple Haze]

As a child, I was forced by my parents to watch these sappy musicals on TV. There's a few of them I've liked, "Singing in the Rain" for example. Of course the whole premise of people having a conversation, and then suddenly breaking into a song and dance while the others stand and watch so enthusiastically is just a little hippity-skippity for me. I was drawn to the Frank and Gene movie last night, the baseball one. Gene Kelly is/was a fantastic dancer (is he dead yet?) but there's something odd about the sheer whiteness of his teeth. And Frank of course is "The Voice" but he seems out of character to be gayly dancing around, almost like he was under contract or something. It was fun for a few minutes, but on the other channel Bill Murray was doing his lounge singer thing.

That's entertainment.