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Couldn't find a funny video, but a bunch of you seem to like the musical/dance number videos I post, so here's another one. ;)

This is one of my favorite Astaire & Rogers numbers, this time from their final film together "The Barkleys Of Broadway" from 1949. What elegance, beauty, and class!

We wrap up this month's celebration of dance in film with 2 classics!

Hard to believe that Ziegfeld Follies (1946) was the only time Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly danced together. And then you can't do much better than Gene joined by Donald O'Connor in Singing In The Rain (1952). :D

Fun & light and then slow & seductive with this week's continued look at dance in film.

I've always loved the Astaire and Rogers films, but there was something very special when Fred Astaire danced with Eleanor Powell. Recently I watched a very old video of Eleanor talking about meeting and dancing with Fred. Hard to believe, but he was nervous about dancing with her! He feared he wouldn't be good enough. But once she got him to relax, they worked very well together.

As for Gene Kelly, well...what can you say? Very different style compared to Astaire, but equally masterful and talented. I usually don't think about this dance from "Singing In The Rain" as being one of the film's more memorable dances, but it really is a knock-out. Cyd Charisse all lean and sexy against Kelly's reluctance.

A day late, but this is Easter Monday, so it still works.
A delightful walk down the avenue in all their Easter finery with Judy & Fred in this 1948 musical. :)

These 2 songs got me through a rough Sunday, so I thought I'd share them. There's really nothing to connect these songs in any way. That's just how my crazy brain works, I guess. :P

This Xfinity ad was a very welcome surprise on Thanksgiving day here in the U.S.
Of course, as an 80s kid, I grew up on the E.T. movie & toys and this ad made me very emotional! In fact, I still tear up every time I watch it. This is beautiful and magical. Have tissues handy!

We lost two great talented entertainers last week & I realized right away I wanted to make a special post just for them. I grew up watching both of these legends & hope you enjoy these few clips.

One movie I watched from childhood was "Calamity Jane" (1953) and I can't imagine anyone else portraying this character. So many great songs & scenes, but I decided on the opening of the film which jump starts you right into the action with "The Deadwood Stage".

Something I just noticed with this sequence - from the time she enters the Golden Garter until she shoots her guns - it's one long take! No cuts at all! For like a little over a minute (which is huge in film) Doris not only jumps up on the bar twice, she's also dragged backwards in a chair, & lip-synching to the song the entire time. Amazing!



Years later, I discovered another of Doris Day's fine films, "Love Me Or Leave Me" (1955). It was the first time I'd seen her in a role that was somewhat dramatic and I thought she did an incredible job. Of course, there's also wonderful songs to showcase her singing & dancing. My favorite is "Shaking The Blues Away". Gotta love that fabulous blue dress!



Again, I grew up watching The Carol Burnett Show (I even distinctly still remember watching the very last show). What a great ensemble cast! And Tim Conway just killed it all the time, especially when he was trying to break up Harvey Korman. Here is that classic outtake (unedited) of Tim telling the Elephant Story during the Mama's Family skit. He just wouldn't let them go on with the scene! :P

Hope you don't mind another clip from an old movie. I grew up on old movies so...you'll probably be seeing a lot of them in these posts. *g*

Ah, Danny Kaye! What a comic genius! This will never not be funny IMO. Enjoy!

I grew up watching the 1949 film of "Little Women" with June Allyson as Jo and always loved it. Then Winona Ryder portrayed the writer, Jo, in the 1994 version and I fell in love all over again. Try as I might, the classic with Katherine Hepburn has never appealed to me.

Learning that SPN's own Kathryn Newton would be playing Amy in a new adaptation of the story, I was eager to see it. Well, I just finished watching the 3 hours online and...I'm sadly disappointed.

From the weird, sexualized opening scene I wasn't sure what to expect. Ultimately, I found this version of the story to be boring. Why did it take them 26 minutes before even showing Jo doing any writing??? In the other movies, it's obvious that writing is Jo's passion! And where were the plays Jo wrote that were put on by the sisters? None of that was here. When Amy burns Jo's manuscript you have to wonder why Jo is so upset. Because up until that moment you don't get a feeling that she's been pouring her heart and soul onto paper for years.

I did think Kathryn did a fine job as Amy and I felt she dealt with the age stretch pretty well. I wanted to like the actress playing Jo, but I felt no connection with her or with her and the time period she was supposed to be in. In difference, the gal playing the older sister did a wonderful job with the prim & proper, Meg.

And why did they make the maid, Hannah, so angry and dislikable??? WTH?

I don't know. They stretched out some things too long and others felt rushed. There's so little connection formed between Jo and Professor Baher. They go to one philosophical symposium and then she rushes off back home! In the other films they went to the circus and the opera...she sewed his button on his coat. None of that for this film! A couple of quick conversations and hey! this is enough to have these 2 be married by the end. *sigh*

I loved the pretty cinematography. All the quiet and beautiful in-between moments of rain and sun, flowers and clothing on the line. They were lovely, but that doesn't make a great film. In all honesty, I've never read the book. I have it. Have attempted to read it a few times, but have never really gotten into it. Some day I shall. But I feel even without that knowledge, this adaptation would fall flat. It simply didn't bring the characters to life as it should have.

So...pretty much anything half-way scary terrifies Misha, Jared likes smart horror movies, and Jensen connects his selection with tunnels at his childhood home.



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