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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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]