It's got eye-popping sets, fabulous costumes, mind-blowing special effects and acting that'll knock your socks off! It's loaded with snappy new music and Busby Berkeley production numbers that'll get your toes a-tappin' and your heart a-thumpin'! It's the one, the only, Shakespeare Theatre Company's Hollywood-style production of Billy Shakespeare's bodaciously wacky hayseed comedy "As You Like...
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#1 TUBEMOTION.COM : Full Movie Directed by Busby Berkeley Produced by Benjamin Glazer Hal B. Wallis Written by Sig Herzig Bertram Millhauser (uncredited) Beulah Marie Dix (uncredited) Starring John Garfield Claude Rains Ann Sheridan May Robson Gloria Dickson Billy Halop Music by Max Steiner Cinematography James Wong Howe Editing by Jack Killifer Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release date(s)...
Flying arrows rain down like deadly needles. Soldiers wield their shields in formations worthy of a Busby Berkeley musical. A beautiful woman pours tea with intoxicating precision. There's plenty of vivid action to fill two and a half hours in John Woo's Chinese historical war epic Red Cliff, a rewarding change of terrain and era for the inventive Hong Kong director. The spectacular battle scenes are...
David Rockwell, one of Fast Company's 2009 Masters of Design , has been just been announced as the set designer for the 2009 Academy Awards--for the second year in a row. His design for this year's Oscars --the 81st--channeled the spirit of Busby Berkeley in Swarovski crystals, and no doubt next year's stage at the Kodak Theater will be just as glamorous. Rockwell describes a great job as "50...
Yesterday I got a haircut and I couldn't be happier! I feel like one of the rehearsing girls in a Busby Berkeley musical number! My outfit is 100% inspired by those tapping gals of the past. I'd been thinking about cutting my hair for months. Finally I took the leap! Thanks Erin for inspiring my cut! Oh yes, the adorable little fuzzball is Patsy Cline!
BBC4's recent series on 1930s architecture looks at Britain's art-deco history through neon-tinted glasses. The reality is a bit more complicated There's no denying art deco's attraction: it's the style of 1930s cinemas, ocean liners and flamboyant Manhattan skyscrapers. It conjures Hollywood, Busby Berkeley musicals , Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in Top Hat . It makes you think of glamorous climes...
(LOVE the shoes. I need to make little medallions like this to add to my shoes) Ladies and gentlemen, I've finally seen this movie and oh boy did I enjoy it! I'm not a fan of musicals, but I absolutely...
When you're home for a quiet Saturday night it's always nice to find a great old movie on the telly. Last night, KQED (our local public television station) aired two gems from the 1930s which made my eyes pop with delight. The first was 42nd Street - an adorable "understudy fills in for the lead and saves the show" story, with some fantastic numbers from Busby Berkeley. The Depression-era...
To mark its 175th anniversary, the Royal Institute of British Architects is holding a season of films in which buildings – fantastical or factual – take a starring role. Here are my top five From the silent epics of DW Griffiths through Art Deco spectaculars like Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1933 to Pixar's wonderful WALL-E (2008), the connection between architecture and film has always...
This clip from Swing Time 1936, in which Fred saves Ginger's job, is a perfect illustration of why Astaire and Rogers revolutionized dance in movies. Elegant, explosive—watch for the amazing shifts in tempo—and deeply romantic, their dance numbers are—Astaire insisted on this—seamlessly integrated into the plot line of their films. Astaire also wisely demanded that the dance...
Thanks to everyone who made it out to Content last night – attendees, models, coordinators, designers et al! The event was a big success, with extraordinary transformations occurring in nearly every room on the second floor of the Ace Hotel. I was proud to be a part of such a unique and creative exhibition, showing [...]
As the alarmingly alliterative hairy Hogwarts handyman, Hagrid, Robbie Coltrane did plenty of acting with children, but none of them, and certainly not the wand-wooden Daniel Radcliffe, could ever have held even an enchanted candle to young Bel Powley. She played opposite Coltrane in the opening episode of Murderland , as Carrie, the daughter of a murdered prostitute, and she was terrific.
'Dorothy Coonan was one of Busby Berkeley's principal chorus dancers who had performed in such films as Whoopee! (1930) and 42nd Street (1933) when she met the director William Wellman, who cast her as the female lead in his film Wild Boys of the Road (1933). She then became Wellman's fifth wife, and remained happily married to him for over 40 years until his death in 1975... Wellman cast Coonan as...
Dorothy Coonan was one of Busby Berkeley's principal chorus dancers who had performed in such films as Whoopee! (1930) and 42nd Street (1933) when she met the director William Wellman, who cast her as the female lead in his film Wild Boys of the Road (1933). She then became Wellman's fifth wife, and remained happily married to him for over 40 years until his death in 1975. Ten years earlier, Wellman...
I'm getting ready to leave town for the first of the October weddings we're set to go to, and even though I love both the dresses I'll be wearing I can't help but wish I had something sleek and art deco and black and white to wear instead. Well, that's just probably due to the movies I've been watching lately; my Netflix movie got lost in the mail, so I've been re-watching 42nd Street and a bunch...
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