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Star power. Esther Williams said she disliked MGM’s original ‘cotton sleeveless T-shirt’ swimsuits and designed her own swimsuit for Skirts Ahoy! (1952) and then persuaded the director of the US Navy to make it their […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1948 Technicolor film A Date with Judy stars top-billed Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell, Carmen Miranda, Xavier Cugat, Robert Stack, Selena Royle, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Clinton Sundberg, George Cleveland and […]
Now you don’t get many singing spies: ‘Jeanette MacDonald Is The Luminous Singing Spy!’… Director Robert Z Leonard’s 1937 black and white MGM musical The Firefly stars Jeanette MacDonald, who takes a rest from her […]
Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1940 MGM musical Two Girls on Broadway [Choose Your Partner] stars Lana Turner, Joan Blondell and George Murphy, along with Kent Taylor. It is a remake of The Broadway Melody (1929). […]
Director Stanley Donen’s 1953 MGM ‘Breezy, Teasy Color by TECHNICOLOR Musical’ film Give a Girl a Break stars doughty dames Debbie Reynolds, Marge Champion and Helen Wood, each with their own champion, who vie for […]
Director Stanley Donen’s 1954 Eastmancolor MGM musical Deep in My Heart is another one of Hollywood’s starry biopics of a composer – this time starring José Ferrer as the Hungarian-born US composer of operettas Sigmund […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1952 MGM Technicolor musical Million Dollar Mermaid [The One Piece Bathing Suit] is a wet and washed-out biography of Annette Kellermann [Kellerman] (6 July 1887 – 6 November 1975), the turn-of-the-last-century champion […]