Showing posts with label Cyd Charisse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyd Charisse. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Summer re-runs: Its Always Fair Weather, 1955

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Its that time of the year again, when we dig out old favourites for another enjoyable view. 1955's ITS ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER is a film I...
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Friday, 8 April 2016

Something for the weekend: the mystery of Cyd's skirt

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Here's a mystery: Cyd Charisse is clearly wearing a skirt with a pleat at the start of this lovely number with Fred in the 1957 SILK ...
Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Marilyn by Lee & and that 1962 film that wasn't ...

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Marilyn Monroe would be 90 this year. Yes, I know, its impossible to imagine her - or James Dean - being "old" now - they are for...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Cyd is a party girl .... Sterling is Johnny Guitar

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Deliriously camp trailer for a favourite meller, 1958's  PARTY GIRL from MGM, with Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse (who gets to dance...
Sunday, 9 November 2014

Sunday treats

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What a busy day - " The Sunday Times " has " 100 Soundtracks to Love " - fascinating, but does not include my favouri...
Monday, 27 October 2014

Falling for Fred & Ginger again ...

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It was fun discovering those Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals back in the Sixties, when I was a young movie buff. Back then one ei...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Paris in 1957 ... magic time.

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Rome in the early '60s - the LA DOLCE VITA era; London in the mid-'60s - it swung; New York in the '70s - tough and gritty ...
Thursday, 18 July 2013

Heatwave movies: Maroc 7

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I first reviewed this in 2010, but it deserves another look, as a great summer movie! MAROC 7 is a riot of colour, girls, guns - a de...
Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Rome, 1962: 2 weeks in another town

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TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN : Former film star Jack Andreus is released from a sanitarium where he has lived for the previous three years,...
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Friday, 24 August 2012

Gene Kelly - 100 !

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They couldn't get 100 candles on the cake We are taking a moment to celebrate that Gene Kelly would be 100 this year - and of cours...
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Friday, 6 April 2012

1956 double bill ...

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A little seen musical and western ... The big hitters of 1956 for me remain FRIENDLY PERSUASION (Cooper! young Tony Perkins! Pat Boone...