Tag: chorus
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Ladies of the Chorus *** (1948, Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe, Rand Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 7604
Director Phil Karlson’s 1948 cheap and cheerful, quickly made musical Ladies of the Chorus offers a must-see chance to see Marilyn Monroe’s first leading role, which is the main attraction of this thin theatre drama about a Broadway baby called Mae Martin (Adele Jergens) who sees her daughter Peggy (Monroe) dance in the chorus and…
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Un Carnet de Bal [Dance Program] [Life Dances On] ***** (1937, Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Fernandel, Raimu, Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar) – Classic Movie Review 4299
Marie Bell plays Christine Surgère, a newly widowed middle-aged woman obsessed with the memory of a ball she attended at the age of 16. When she finds the dance-card of her youth, she decides to track down the men she danced with that night of the ball, revisit her old friends and discover their fates. Cue co-writer/ director…