Vincente Minnelli

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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008

It's such a simple question, really: "What's the first movie you remember seeing more than once?"

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Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008

Busu Yoshihiro Nakamura - 2005 Tartan Asia Extreme Region 1 DVD I only have a couple more titles to go before I have seen every Tartan Asia Extreme DVD available from the Denver Public Library. The Booth is a...

Movie Listings Highlight: Brigadoon

New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008

‘BRIGADOON’ To find Brigadoon, it seems, you must move backward. That’s what the director Vincente Minnelli and the cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg did for MGM’s “Brigadoon.” First they shot the discovery scene as a clear view of a village nestled in a valley and then pumped in fog to cover it over. Finally they projected the sequence in reverse, and Brigadoon emerged magically from the Highland...

Coming to DVD: An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958)

Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008

Director Vincente Minnelli's two Best Picture winners have had previous " plain vanilla " DVD releases, but MGM musical fans are in for a treat when 2-Disc Special Editions of each film are released on September 16, 2008. DVD Times reports that AN AMERICAN IN PARIS will have a spectacular new print using the "Ultra-Resolution" process, a "making of" documentary, and the documentary GENE KELLY: ANATOMY...

Cyd Charisse: Dancer and actress in golden age of Hollywood musicals

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008

Born: 8 March, 1922, in Amarillo, Texas

Cyd Charisse: Dancer and actress in golden age of Hollywood musicals

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008

Born: 8 March, 1922, in Amarillo, Texas

Cyd Charisse, partner for Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in MGM musicals

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

Cyd Charisse, 86, starred in a sparkling era of Hollywood musicals, and though she had some dramatic roles, it was in musicals that she achieved renown.

Cyd Charisse, 1922-2008

Media Assassin (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

In the 1953 Vincente Minnelli musical, The Band Wagon, there’s a fantastic sequence called “The Girl Hunt,” in which dance great Fred Astaire, as gumshoe Rod Riley, searches for a mysterious ingenue. Numerous close calls and clues lead him to a gangster nightspot, Dem Bones Cafe, where upon entering, he suddenly catches sight of a [...]

Cyd Charisse, partner for Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in MGM musicals, dies

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

Charisse, 86, starred in a sparkling era of Hollywood musicals, and though she had some dramatic roles, it was in musicals that she achieved renown.

Cyd Charisse (1921-2008) - Still Dancing in the Dark

Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

Absolutely sublime dancing with Fred Astaire, above , in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli 1953) and Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian 1957). Equally well matched with Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen 1952), Brigadoon (Minnelli 1954), and It’s Always Fair Weather (Kelly & Donen 1955). Two spectacular solo numbers in Party Girl (Nicholas Ray 1958). Striking even in a non-dancing...

• Cyd Charisse has slipped back to Brigadoon... - Ain't it Cool News

Cyd Charisse, 86, silken dancer of the movies, dies

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

Charisse came of age in a sparkling era of Hollywood musicals, and though she had some dramatic film roles, it was in musicals that she achieved her lasting renown.

Cyd Charisse, dancer with million dollar legs, dies at 87

Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

Cyd Charisse, the actress-dancer whose legs were insured for a million dollars, has died in Los Angeles, aged 87.

USA - HOLLYWOOD - DEATH: Hollywood dancer Cyd Charisse has passed away

France24 (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

Actress Cyd Charisse, the last great Hollywood dancer, died of heart failure at age 87. She rose to fame at the height of the big studio musical era, gracefully partnering actors such as Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire.

TCM Pick O’ The Day — Wednesday, June 18th

LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008

8:30am PST - Brigadoon (1954) - Two American hunters in Scotland discover a mystical village that only materializes once every century. Cast: Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. C-108 mins, TV-G Brigadoon is flawed in many respects but proof of how a romance can work if the two leads sell that they’re truly [...]

Liza's Cabaret date

Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008

HOLLYWOOD superstar Liza Minnelli will perform at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester tonight.