Singin' and Dancing Back in Time.: Dee Turnell ( uncredited).

Friday, October 1, 2010

Dee Turnell ( uncredited).

Dee Turnell is the dancer on the right. She has performed in so many wonderful movies, you wonder why she never made it "BIG".

List of Dee Turnell Films:
The Opposite Sex Showgirl (uncredited)
1955 Kismet Harem Showgirl (uncredited)
1954 Deep in My Heart Bride in 'Louis XIV' (uncredited)
1954 Brigadoon (Ann)
1953 The Band Wagon Barbara (uncredited)
1953 The Girl Who Had Everything Guest in Town House (uncredited)
1952 The Bad and the Beautiful Linda Ronley (uncredited)
1952 The Return of Gilbert & Sullivan (short)
1952 Singin' in the Rain Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1951 The Strip Dancer (uncredited)
1951 An American in Paris Fury (uncredited)
1951 Show Boat Minor Role (uncredited)
1951 Royal Wedding Dancer in Haiti Number (uncredited)
1950 Tea for Two Chorus girl (uncredited)
1949 Neptune's Daughter Minor Role (uncredited)
1949 The Barkleys of Broadway Blonde (uncredited)
1948 Easter Parade Dancer (uncredited)
1948 The Pirate Louisa - 'Nina' Showgirl (uncredited)
1947 Cass Timberlane Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
1947 Copacabana

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Bob Fosse

Was a musical theater choreographer and director, screenwriter and film director. He won an eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction. He was nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning for his direction of Cabaret. He was identified with his third wife, Gwen Verdon. She was both the dancer/collaborator who he choreographed much of his work and, together with dancer/choreographer Ann Reinking, a guardian of the Fosse legacy after his death. Fosse is considered to be one the most influential coreographers of the 20th Century.

Esther Williams.

JANE POWELL

After rising to fame as a singer in her home state of Oregon, Powell was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer while still in her teens. Once there, the studio utilized her vocal, dancing and acting talents, casting her in such musicals as Royal Wedding, with Fred Astaire, A Date with Judy, with friend Elizabeth Taylor and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, with Howard Keel. In the late 1950s, her film career slowed, only to be replaced with a busy theater and television career.Click picture to enter websight.

Jeanette MacDonald

Singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour With You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in grand opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of most influential sopranos of the 20th century. Click picture to view fan website.

Joan Crawford.

Click picture to view website. Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well-received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money and by the end of the 1930s

Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Richard Rodgers (1902 – 1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 – 1960) the songwriting duo, on our musical page. They created many popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s during what is considered the golden age. With Rodgers composing the music and Hammerstein writing the lyrics, five of their shows, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. They won thirty-four Tony Awards, fifteen Academy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and two Grammys. Click picture to read movie reviews.

Cab Calloway

Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86 .Click picture to view official website.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Dee Turnell ( uncredited).

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