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Producer-director Peter Yates turns Ronald Harwood’s 1980 hit play about veteran barnstorming-style ham Shakespearean actor-manager and his camp personal assistant dresser into the 1983 British film The Dresser, with Harwood writing his own screenplay. The […]
Director Busby Berkeley’s pleasing 1940 musical is a pleasant re-run for the talented team from Babes in Arms (1939), keeping only George Gershwin’s title song from his 1928 Broadway show. In a supposedly new story that […]
Director George Sidney’s 1957 film musical is a good but annoyingly far from ideal version of the legendary Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart 1940 Broadway show. Frank Sinatra takes over Gene Kelly’s stage role as the womanising […]
The beguiling 1953 movie of the delightful Cole Porter Broadway smash-hit show Kiss Me Kate has style, wit and charm in abundance, plus the perfect cast to show off the songs: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, […]