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Posts Tagged "Cole Porter"
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Du Barry Was a Lady *** (1943, Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O’Brien, Zero Mostel, Tommy Dorsey) – Classic Movie Review 9892
Cole Porter’s 1939 hit stage show with Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr is less satisfactorily cast with non-singing comedians Lucille Ball and Red Skelton for director Roy Del Ruth’s vigorous and amusing 1943 MGM film […]
Anything Goes ** (1956, Bing Crosby, Donald O’Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Phil Harris) – Classic Movie Review 9277
Anything goes certainly here in director Robert Lewis’s 1956 Paramount Pictures remake of Anything Goes, and the first thing that went in Sidney Sheldon’s script is the plot of the great Broadway show by Guy […]
Anything Goes *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 9276
Director Lewis Milestone’s 1936 black and white musical Anything Goes [Tops Is the Limit] is a revamped version of the great stage show for the movies, based on the play by Guy Bolton and P […]
Night and Day *** (1946, Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone, Eve Arden, Ginny Simms) – Classic Movie Review 3088
Cary Grant was not happy while making the intriguing though flawed 1946 Cole Porter musical biopic Night and Day, clashing often with director Michael Curtiz, mostly over a ‘weak script with lousy characterisations’. With rumours […]
De-Lovely *** (2004, Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Allan Corduner, Peter Polycarpou, Keith Allen) – Classic Movie Review 3089
Kevin Kline stars as gay composer Cole Porter, who reviews his career and life with his understanding wife, Linda (Ashley Judd) in director Irwin Winkler’s dramatically intriguing, highly tuneful musical biopic. Both stars give supremely stylish […]
Easy Virtue **** (2008, Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kris Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 3034
Co-writer/director Stephan Elliott’s delightful and highly amusing 2008 adaptation of gay playwright Noël Coward’s witty early play stars Ben Barnes and Colin Firth, who were reunited in 2009’s Dorian Gray. This time, they are father […]
The Gay Divorcee ***** (1934, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2955
Director Mark Sandrich’s enchanting 1934 musical stars the magical duo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who are an unalloyed delight in their initial star pairing after their success together in supporting roles in Flying […]