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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Deep in My Heart(1954).

Deep in My Heart(1954). Biographical musical about the life of operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, who wrote the music for The Student Prince, The Desert Song, and The New Moon. Leonard Spigelglass adapted the film from Elliott Arnold's 1949 biography of the same name. Stanley Donen directed and Eugene Loring choreographed.

The film, which takes its title from "Deep in My Heart, Dear," a song from "The Student Prince," which has cameos by nearly every singer or dancer on the MGM lot at the time. These include Cyd Charisse, Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone, Howard Keel, Gene Kelly and his brother Fred Kelly (their only on-screen performance together), Tony Martin, Ann Miller, James Mitchell, Jane Powell, and the ballerina Tamara Toumanova. Robert Easton and Russ Tamblyn both make uncredited appearances.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Deep in My Heart(1954) Gene Kelly and his brother Fred Kelly only on-screen performance together.

Some highlights of Fred Kelly's career:

Winner of three Donaldson awards, which were the precursor of the Tony Awards: one for acting (presented by Helen Hayes), one for comedy (presented by Charlie Chaplin), and one for dance (presented by Antoinette Perry, for whom the Tony awards are named).

Directed The Ice Capades.

Introduced the mambo to the New York City dance scene.

Invented the cha-cha.

Taught a young man named John Travolta to dance in Oradell, NJ.

In the movie Meet Me in St. Louis, the song “The Boy Next Door” was based on Fred and his wife, Dottie, who was his childhood sweetheart. They lived next door to each other in Pittsburgh.

Fred produced, directed, or was otherwise involved with the first television drama series, soap opera, cooking show, and talk show - a true television pioneer.

Soundtracks:

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"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Performed by Tamara Toumanova (dubbed by Betty Wand (uncredited))
Also sung by Helen Traubel
Originally from the musical "The New Moon" (1928)

"Mr. and Mrs."
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Cyrus Wood (as Cyrus D. Wood)
Sung by Rosemary Clooney and José Ferrer
Originally from the musical "The Blushing Bride" (1922)

"I Love to Go Swimmin' with Wimmen"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald
Performed by Gene Kelly and Fred Kelly
Originally from the musical "Love Birds" (1921)

"The Road to Paradise"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
Sung by Vic Damone
Originally from the musical "Maytime" (1917)

"Will You Remember (Sweetheart)"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Rida Johnson Young
Sung by Jane Powell and Vic Damone
Originally from the musical "Maytime" (1917)

"It"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach
Sung and Danced by Ann Miller
Originally from the musical "The Desert Song" (1926)

"Serenade"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly
Sung by William Olvis
Originally from the musical "The Student Prince" (1924)

"One Alone"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto A. Harbach
Sung and Danced by Cyd Charisse (dubbed by Carol Richards (uncredited)) and James Mitchell
Originally from the musical "The Desert Song" (1926)

"Your Land and My Land"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly
Sung by Howard Keel
Originally from the musical "My Maryland" (1927)

"Lover, Come Back to Me"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by Tony Martin and Joan Weldon
Originally from the musical "The New Moon" (1928)

"When I Grow Too Old to Dream"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by José Ferrer, Helen Traubel and chorus
Originally from the film The Night Is Young (1935)

"Leg of Mutton"
Music and Lyrics by Sigmund Romberg
Sung by José Ferrer and Helen Traubel

"'Allo, 'Allo"
Performed by Tamara Toumanova (possibly dubbed by Betty Wand (uncredited))

"Auf Wiedersehn"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Herbert Reynolds
Sung by Helen Traubel
Originally from the musical "The Blue Paradise" (1915)

"You Will Remember Vienna"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by Helen Traubel

"Jazzadadadoo"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Harold Atteridge
Performed by José Ferrer
Originally from the musical "Bombo" (1921)

"Stouthearted Men"
Music by Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Sung by Helen Traubel
Originally from the musical "The New Moon" (1928)

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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.