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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Fred Astaire,
Petula Clark,
Tommy Steele,
Don Francks,
Keenan Wynn
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
A funny thing happened to Finian's Rainbow in between its debut as a Broadway musical in 1947 and its appearance as a film in 1968. After 21 years, its theme of racial tension in the American South was no longer cutting edge, and the fact that its heroes are a group of sharecroppers called the Rainbow Valley Tobacco Cooperative dates it even further. Add a number of subplots and the heavy hand of a 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola directing his first and only musical, and the two-and-a-half-hour running time feels bloated. Hermes Pan (best known for the classic Astaire-Rogers movies) is credited with choreographing the overbusy musical numbers, but he was reportedl...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Bing Crosby,
Fred Astaire,
Marjorie Reynolds,
Virginia Dale,
Walter Abel
Director:
Mark Sandrich
In 1942, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby teamed up at Der Bingle's Paramount Pictures for Holiday Inn, a black-and-white musical that proves more entertaining than Crosby's color semi-remake White Christmas in 1954. Astaire and Crosby play partner/rival song-and-dance men who compete for the hand of their performing partner, played by Virginia Dale. After Crosby loses, he moves to the Connecticut countryside where he creates a resort that is only open on holidays and puts on the shows with the help of Marjorie Reynolds. Dumped by Dale, Astaire makes a drunken arrival at the inn on New Year's Eve and dances with Reynolds. He decides she'll be his new partner,...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Stanley Tucci,
Fred Astaire,
Jeanine Basinger,
Betsy Blair,
Leslie Caron
Director:
Robert Trachtenberg
This biography of Gene Kelly comes from the American Masters series, and even by the high standard of that pedigree, it's an unusually fine portrait. The clips from Kelly's films are superbly chosen (and in sparkling condition), illustrating his low-to-the-ground dancing style and his sky-high choreographic ambitions. "Singin' in the Rain" is here, of course, but so is his lonely, lovely solo with a newspaper in Summer Stock and his double-exposure "Alter Ego" number from Cover Girl. The documentary is not fawning; testimony from collaborators such as Debbie Reynolds and André Previn leaves no doubt about his vanity and his perfectionism. The best of...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Fred Astaire,
Ginger Rogers
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/02/2010 Run time: 418 minutes Rating: Nr
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Gregory Peck,
Ava Gardner,
Fred Astaire,
Anthony Perkins,
Donna Anderson
Stanley Kramer's 1959 antiwar movie looks like everything Kramer did: subtle as a car wreck but undeniably affecting. Gregory Peck plays a submarine commander looking for survivors in Australia after a nuclear holocaust. Ava Gardner is among them and, somewhat improbably under the circumstances, becomes his love interest. Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins are among the characters awaiting death from the gradual spread of radiation from the north. One might scoff at Kramer's implicit finger-wagging about nuclear politics in this mad, mad, mad, mad world, but it is hard to stop watching this compelling drama all the same. --Tom Keogh
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Robert Wagner,
Bette Davis,
Fred Astaire,
Ricardo Montalban,
Teri Garr
Studio: E1 Release Date: 11/15/2011 Run time: 816 minutes
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Judy Garland,
Fred Astaire,
Peter Lawford,
Ann Miller,
Margaret Bert
Don Hewes (Fred Astaire) is devastated when his longtime dancing partner, Nadine Hale (Ann Miller), breaks up the team to set out on her own. Determined to prove that he can succeed without her, Astaire vows that he can pick any random chorus girl and make her a star. Fortunately for him, the chorus girl he picks happens to be one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century, Judy Garland (playing Hannah Brown). Easter Parade turned out to be the first and only collaboration between the two screen legends. Garland made the 1948 film despite ongoing health problems then had to pull out of a planned follow-up, The Barkleys of Broadway (Ginger Rogers replac...
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Rated: G (General Audience)
Staring:
Fred Astaire,
Gene Kelly,
Debbie Reynolds,
Ann Miller,
Mickey Rooney
Director:
Gene Kelly, Bud Friedgen, David Engel, Jack Haley Jr., Michael J. Shapiro
A history of Hollywood films and musicals produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, featuring excerpts from many beloved classics.
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Release Date: 12-OCT-2004
Media Type: DVD
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Judy Garland,
Frank Sinatra,
Fred Astaire
Musical Classics 50 Movie MegaPack - Fabulous Dorseys Calendar Girl Sunny Swing Hostess Dixiana Palooka Glorifying the American Girl Check & Double Check Paradise in Harlem Duke is Tops Reet Petite & Gone Killer Diller Delightfully Dangerous Private Buckaroo Stage Door Canteen Career Girl Second Chorus Trocadero People Are Funny Doll Face Great Baggo Dancing Pirate Road Show Hi Diddle Diddle Rock-Rock-Rock King Kelly of the USA Rock N' Roll Revue Rhythm & Blues Revue 'Til the Clouds Roll By All-American Co-Ed Hi Di Ho Breakfast in Hollywood Soundies Festival Soundies Clavalcade Reaching For the Moon Mr. Imperium Royal Wedding Pied Piper of Hamelin Wild Guitar Murder With...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Audrey Hepburn,
Fred Astaire,
Kay Thompson,
Michel Auclair,
Robert Flemyng
Director:
Stanley Donen
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/29/2011 Run time: 103 minutes Rating: Nr
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