Most Art Deco thing I've ever seen ! ❤❤❤🎵🎺♠♥🎷🎼🎥💽🎭🌚🌂

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!!!!😄

Boy, could we use some of these uplifting, extravagant musicals now in this utterly drab and dreary world we live in today...

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, I so totally agree!

@joycemanning1254

15 күн бұрын

I watch these old movies over and over again

Those dancers dressed as glittering black birds with fringe to their ankles... simply the most amazing, exotic costumes I've ever seen, and I'm over 70.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

9 ай бұрын

Totally agree. So beautiful.

No one could out-tap Powell.. not even Astaire! She makes it look joyous and effortless.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

9 ай бұрын

Doesn't she just! So wonderful.

These movies are magnificent in black & white. You can imagine the colour in your mind as you are swept away by the music and dancing. Today's Hollywood lacks the combination of talent these actors possessed.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree!

@LaurenceDay-d2p

14 күн бұрын

The decline of the studio system meant the decline of fabulous musicals, alas.

I’ve been in love with this picture and Mr. Morgan my entire life! Just fantastic!

@jeanwinchester2406

Жыл бұрын

Entirely agree! Just amazing.

It's unbelievable. The spiral staircase looks like an enormus cream cake with all these beautiful ladies. Absolut amazing. Just "Wow." I'm very touched.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Incredible, isn't it!!

@Camop-iz9kt

2 жыл бұрын

Just think how long it took to get everyone in place! Probably hours.

What it took to put together a production of this magnitude just unbelievable they went all out.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

I know! It's pretty fantastic to our modern eyes!

I have watched this number many times and remain blown away by it all. This was the "goldenest moment" of them all in Hollywood musicals.

I love watching these old Hollywood musicals, with so much class and talent. Nothing can compare to the Ziegfeld productions, or Fred Astaire and his dancing partners. Back then they didn't even have the technology or computers of today.

Unbelievable! You don't see this kind of "organic" talent anymore.

@josuecastillo2965

4 жыл бұрын

Amo toda esa época dorada de los Musicales, Talento, Elegancia y Clase un deleite visual y auditivo,,Viva ese Hollywood,,de antes,,Y Love it

These two footages come from "That`s Entertainment (1974)". I was a 18 years old Japanese when I watched this movie at a movie theater in Tokyo in 1975. I was so captivated by this movie that I still remember my excitement vividly.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

How wonderful for you!

@MrEjidorie

4 жыл бұрын

@@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester Thank you very much for your cordial reply. Your site reminds me of my beautiful memory in my early youth.

@user-uo3cs6sy7h

3 жыл бұрын

Hello ❕ Another Japanese here 😉 I was 13 back then, and watched “That's Entertainment“ at a movie theater three times in a row. I remember I was so facinated by it that I could not leave my seat. Almost half a century after that, it is like a dream that I can see some of the scenes on KZread.

@marcoandres8830

Жыл бұрын

​@ちゃちゃこ May I ask what you thought of the movie?

@marcoandres8830

Жыл бұрын

​@ちゃちゃこ How do you compare it with movies today?

巨大なデコレーションケーキのようなセットを考え沢山のダンサーや俳優、歌手まで全ての登場人物にヘアメイクし衣装を着せる、そこにはどれだけの人手と労力がかかったか。 ここまでの豪華なショウはできないと言われたそうで、今もって不可能です。 よく見るとみんな違う魅力的な人ばかりで眼福です。 夢の工場MGM🏭、かつての栄光をこうして自宅で楽しめるようになって嬉しい一方、もう一度こんな魅力ある映画産業が栄えることがないのが残念です😢

@jeanwinchester2406

Жыл бұрын

I could not agree with you more! What an amount of effort!

One of the most gorgeous black and white films I've ever seen. It's like something out of a fairytale, or a dream wedding cake. The Great Ziegfeld is one of my most favorite films. Easily top 20.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

It is so wonderful, isn't it?

@Shadywolf09

4 жыл бұрын

@@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester Very much so indeed.

What makes the Pretty Girl number remarkable is that it's filmed in one continuous take. Every participant had to be in place and do their designated moves. No one could make a mistake because of the single take. I wonder if there was more than one required to get it perfect?

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. What I find amazing is that right at the end, there are still actors in the background that are on the screen for just moments showing that the clip is even larger!

@jacobsimon

4 жыл бұрын

@@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester yes, this is a snippet of the 8 minute number. You must catch the movie and will be even more wowed.

All just Pure magic there will never be anything like it ever again.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

So very true!

Thank God I got to see what Real Hollywood was before this time we live in now! This was actors who thrive on skills and the direction of the studios!!!

@kyoyameganebereznoff

4 жыл бұрын

This was also when studios could work their actors into the ground and get away with it. You should read about how Judy Garland was treated.

@TheIndependentLens

4 жыл бұрын

@@kyoyameganebereznoff Yeah, but you actually had to be talented back then and talented in multiple ways.

@patricaoreilly2143

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

Anybody notice that the lady at the top always faces the camera while the staircase goes around her? Amazing.

That Broadway Melody from 1940. I've never seen such exquisite dancing in my life. I cannot imagine the amount of practice hours that those artists put into it.

The most beautiful thing I 've ever seen...brings tears to my eyes

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree!!

It sounds more like Aled Jones singing!! His voice is so distinct! I’d swear that was him!

@eblackadder3

2 жыл бұрын

That's because it IS Allan Jones. His singing voice was used instead of Dennis Morgan's.

This clip is just the end of a very long and astounding sequence. You cannot look away from the screen.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I wish I had the entire clip.

Life was grand back then. Everything, larger than life. And this, surely proves it. Just wow💕!!!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

It's such a fantastic film.

@garrywallace1007

4 жыл бұрын

In fact the opposite- life was at the tail end of the Depression...but the movies were made grand for escapism!

Every-time I watch those dancers I feel a tear coming on for the sheer brilliance, dedication and artistry. A time when Hollywood was truly at the top of its game.

A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day, Just like the strain of a haunting refrain, She'll start up-on a marathon And run around your brain. You can't escape she's in your memory. By morning night and noon. She will leave you and then come back again, A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Nice one!

Dennis Morgan singing "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" (1936) Just one of my bestest favorite magnificent (BB??) musicals. How and why they did them all is beyond comprehension. Could never ever do them today. Think: rehearsing schedule!?!? Eeekkkk. So yeah, we are fortunate to see/have on film in 2020 ❤ Just. So. Unbelievable.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

It is truly wonderful, isn't it!

@ronaldcammarata3422

4 жыл бұрын

But that wasn't Dennis Morgan's voice. They dubbed it with Allan Jones' voice. I don't know why. And I don't know why they didn't have Sinatra mention it in That's Entertainment. I can't believe someone involved didn't know it.

@eblackadder3

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldcammarata3422 I was always annoyed that Sinatra didn't mention it was Allan Jones singing, and not Dennis Morgan in That's Entertainment!

@marjoriejaffe3931

11 ай бұрын

I agree with all of th here replies...Now...take it to the BIG SCREEN! I'd pay whatever the price. We need this respite from all of the ugliness that's in our world today. Hollywood was incredible from the late 1900's through and after the war...All of the pre code movies were fabulous. Kay Francis....Norma Sheerer....Hollywood now, can never compete...NEVER ....EVER!!! Some young women today could benefit seeing well groomed, well mannered NO NOSE RINGS..., women. It was a magical, creative passionate industry. Now for the most part...garbage...

And well never ever see talent like this ever again. From all concerned on tbese works of art.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely true!

Musicals will never be the way it was then .absolutely beautiful the dancers and there dance scenery back then was beautiful. Fred Was a great tap dancer then so was Eleanor Powell a great female dancer .they may be gone but there dance routine will always be remembered. Rest in peace to all the best dancers of that time godbless them amen🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🌹🌹🌹🕺💃🙏💖

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

8 ай бұрын

Thank you. They certainly deserve all your loving praise.

The “cake” is the most spectacular production ever done in Hollywood!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is amazing!

@esmeephillips5888

3 жыл бұрын

No, it's a triumph of set design over choreography. Ziegfeld would fill a stage, but so full that the performers could not hoof much even if they were capable of it- and his chorines were picked on looks, not footwork. Ziegfeld was into tableaux and costumes, not dazzling movement. The film recreates his aesthetic but does not translate it into cinematic terms: you see a stately procession, not the camera angles and fast cutting of a Busby Berkeley or the simpler but elegant coverage of a Fred Astaire number by Mark Sandrich. 'The Great Ziegfeld' was not a true musical at all. It was a biopic of Flo with stage interludes, harking back to the canned Broadway revue of early Talkie days. The future belonged to another MGM picture released just beforehand, Eleanor Powell's 'Born to Dance'. Watch the finale, 'Swingin' the Jinx Away', to see how lavish sets, a huge cast, a virtuoso soloist and a brilliant composer can collaborate to produce a truly dynamic and sensational *moving* picture. That was Metro's breakthrough in surpassing Warner and RKO as a maker of musicals: a crown it retained for 20 years until the genre faded. The second clip underlines how the initiative passed to it. Fred, Gingerless, is a guest star duetting with Eleanor Powell in a number principally choreographed by her on a set designed by her boyfriend- and in the judgment of most, for once he is outdanced. 'Begin the Beguine', not 'A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody', is the sequence most people remember because it foregrounds supremely polished dancing against a costly but austere backdrop. It would be possible to recreate a Ziegfeld extravaganza, but not this duet. Sinatra was right.

@Drums-ve8on

3 жыл бұрын

@@esmeephillips5888 thanks for the info and analysis.

@allisonyoung4285

2 жыл бұрын

With respect, I think 'Flying Down To Rio' the airplanes with girls on top takes the 🏆 trophy.💯

@joebeeler990

Жыл бұрын

You might be right but the Babylon sequence from Intolerance is pretty amazing. I should also point out the chariot race from Wylers Ben Hur. Reel 9 in magnetic stereo is in a class by itself. Shangri la in Lost Horizon is awe inspiring. The staircase is two shots. Around the base is one, then the climb and pull back.

MGM was the greatest musical factory ever invented. No studio has ever produced musicals that can equal those of the Freed Unit.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

14 күн бұрын

No argument there. Agree with you 100%!

Although the voice heard singing Irving Berlin’s music and lyrics was that of the tenor Allan Jones, Dennis Morgan (a lyric baritone) was chosen to lip-synch Jones’ voice because Morgan resembled John Steel, the tenor who had introduced the song in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Very, very interesting. Thank you.

@RubyRosaRudy

3 жыл бұрын

Molly, If you’ve not heard John Steel’s 1919 Victor recording of “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody,” here’s a link to it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n3Zkm5magqzVnMY.html

Those women were part of something very special that they can tell their family for generations.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

They certainly were!

Love all these old movies better than today with everyone flying around

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

Жыл бұрын

I could not agree with you more! Just fantastic!

No one, today, has the genius to do such an innocent showstopper.

Just watched that again. Wow!! Double wow!!!

Two interesting facts about that AMAZING stage number: 1) What you see on film is the FIRST attempt at the production. They got it perfectly right the first time. 2) Although Dennis Morgan did have a beautiful singing voice, he was lip syncing to Allan Jones voice. Here is the proof from IMDB's listings: The Great Ziegfeld (performer: "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" (1919) - uncredited) Some of the powerful notes were simply beyond Morgan's range.

@Muswell

3 жыл бұрын

Also as the camera pans back out, there is that girl on the top row that decides to fluff up her dress just as it's going round almost out of sight. Presumably, she thought she was out of shot.

@bobbyfrancis8957

2 жыл бұрын

Albert Yokum - At first, they're playing "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin, but don't ever say he wrote the "Pretty Girl" song too - give the credit to Irving Berlin.

I saw this clip (the cake), on That's Entertainment (I believe they show the whole clip on that). It's the most amazing scenery in any film that I've ever seen! Mixed in with that old fashioned Hollywood romance. I feel nostalgic for those times, before I was even born.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

How can they be this awesome in performing? Practice, ling ling 40 hours.

One of my absolute favs from MGM.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

It is beautiful, isn't it?

So classic and i love it... 😍😍

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

❤️

Flawless ( and very complex) dance routine ! Just beautiful perfection !

Wikipedia: The "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" set alone was reported to have cost US$220,000 (US$4,053,381 in 2019 dollars[3]),[4] featuring a towering rotating volute of 70 ft (21 m) diameter with 175 spiral steps, weighing 100 tons.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

That's amazing information. Thank you, Rowby.

I always thought this was unreal boy did they know how to make movies back then.

@cynthiacorcoran9389

4 жыл бұрын

Dad started filming in 1957 this was 1969.

It's an excerpt from the documentary "That's Entertainment!" from 1974, celebrating MGM's 50th anniversary The voice is Frank Sinatra's

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Correct!

I wish I could be sitting up on those steps!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

Жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

STILL unbelievable....

Isso é maravilhoso! Só vocês americanos pra proporcionar isso pra gente! Parabéns e valeuuu 🤗.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Muito obrigado

Pure beauty and artistry of an era sadly gone.............

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

So very, very true!

There must be some people watching this scene and saying "Here's my grandma!"

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you're probably right!

The story goes that in the Fred Astaire dance number, MGM couldn't find a supplier to take on the mirrors, so MGM made them themselves in-house - glass mirror floor and 30' tall mirrors upstage ... what a beast of a job that would have been, not to mention 'choreographing' the movement of the mirrored rear wall of the set to avoid unwanted reflections that would ruin the scene - production talent at it's best... without even mentioning the 'Pretty Girl; set - do you realize that that monumental spiraling curtain is actually cut / made to sit on each step, as it rotates back into the closed position... now a behind the scenes shot of that set operating would be absolutely gob-smacking...

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, John for that wonderful information. Truly astounding!

@rosemarierocco3969

Жыл бұрын

That is not Dennis Morgan's voice It's' Alan Jones.

By the way, the singer is Allan Jones, dubbing Dennis Morgan

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that, Sanford.

I still get goosebumps watching the first one. Broadway Melody?

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

I have highlighted and commented on this unequalled musical number a few times now. Beautiful crane shot at the end.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Certainly amazing!

That curtain omg

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

8 ай бұрын

It does rather take your breath away, doesn't it!!

I read somewhere that Robert Alda (father of Alan) was the actual singer.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

8 ай бұрын

I have a feeling somebody else mentioned that that in the comments as well. Thanks for your comment.

Wow wow wow there is literally nothing close to this now. Hollywood is long dead. It truly was the dream factory.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

8 ай бұрын

I know. It's sad to think that greed has taken Hollywood over so much.

Amazing!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!!

Beautifull

The best crane shot of all time.

@sizomahlangu5938

4 жыл бұрын

I’d have to say Gone With the Wind 1939 Although this is the greatest MGM Crane Shot indeed!

SPECTACULAR

The awesome talent in Hollywood in those days can never be equalled.....all these movies needed, were to be shot in color, adding a dazzling new dimension to them.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

It'll be marvellous if someone was to do one of them 60 FPS, colour, AI jobs on them. And it's true, they are pure entertainment of the very highest quality.And as you say, awesome talent.

@osocool1too

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly the technology of today could easily add true colour to these sequences. Maybe one day. 👍🥸🤓

Simply amazing

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it just. Just wonderful. Never to be repeated.

When MGM assigned Cukor to direct Rosa Ponselle’s 1936 screen test for a proposed film of “Carmen,” a script was drafted and sent by him to Ponselle through her manager, Libbie Miller. When Ponselle read the script she sent a handwritten letter to Cukor saying, “Georgie [her pet name for him], there’s a character missing from the script and he’s pretty important-Don Jose!”

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that information.

These films were before my time.but i love them.how talented this guy was.plus look at all those people extas.you said it.it was pure beauty and talent. I read that Fred wasnt a good person to deal with but if you are a professional and perfection then hes the one.they look like they are having so much fun.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I can't imagine how complex it must have been setting it up. I wonder how many DAs he had working under him.

Time marches on: 2021....

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness!!!!

I recently just rewatched "The Towering Inferno." It was interesting to see Fred Astaire as an elderly gentleman and not in a musical. A lot of stars in that movie.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

A lovely elderly gentlemen indeed.

@luishumbertovega3900

4 жыл бұрын

For that role he received the only Academy Award nomination of his long career, in the Best Supporting Actor category. He lost to Robert DeNiro (as Vito Corleone, The Godfather Part II)

@TheIndependentLens

4 жыл бұрын

Luis Humberto Vega did not know. Thanks for the information! With it being a big effects, disaster movie I didn’t think there would’ve been academy nominations beyond technical categories. Hey, looks like he got the Golden Globe for the role though. Just looked it up.

@luishumbertovega3900

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheIndependentLens Oh, that, about Astaire being awarded the GG is news to me, thank you. I follow the Óscars but not the other awards. Too bad those 1-derful dancers of Hollywood's Golden Age never received the recognition they deserved as actors as if the performing of a dance was not hard enough. Unless they starred in some intense drama with a lot of crying and emoting they were usually ignored in the acting categories. When you asked Donald O'Connor about his profession he simply answered 'I am an actor.', implying that singing, dancing, comedy, drama and anything else comprising the performing disciplines formed part of, were branches of Acting. I definitively agree with him, and he was great at everything he did.

@esmeephillips5888

3 жыл бұрын

@@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester Although he was trying to sell Jennifer Jones a pup!

the number was recorded early onsite is Allan Jones' voice but he was filming another musical when this was filmed

Super excellent with very good interesting video

Better than the vitriol Hollywood makes today.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

11 ай бұрын

I could not agree with you more!

Molly Cutpurse 1 minute ago It is from the film, The Great Ziegfeld (MGM, 1936)

Que saudades dos bons musicais da MGM!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

この時代にこの完成度素晴らしい！

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

Жыл бұрын

Most certainly!!

Defo! Who knows where it might land, bring em on! Enjoy, at least we have KZread!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

Жыл бұрын

I am not quite clear on your comment. Did you mean to paste it on another KZread video?

Probably someone has already mentioned this, but it's worth repeating. While that is Dennis Morgan in the scene, it is definitely NOT Dennis Morgan singing. It's Allan Jones (father of future singer Jack Jones) singing. For some reason they dubbed in Jones's voice. I don't know why. I also don't know why they didn't have Sinatra point this out in That's Entertainment.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this information.

I'm referring to "A Pretty Girl is Like A Melody".

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

I love it!

Unbelievable!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

2 жыл бұрын

It is, isn't it!

That long SINGLE camera shot - without edits - unbelievable. Just imagine the rehearsals and re-takes and do-overs. I remember watching this on a small black and white TV set in the early 60's. Does anyone know where to find the full spiral staircase clip? It begins long before this feature cuts-in.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

It is from the film, The Great Ziegfeld (MGM, 1936)

Cut out the fantastic beginning, of A Pretty Girl, missing at least a couple of minutes, don’t know why. This is really the end of “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody”

@leprechaunstud582

5 жыл бұрын

This is a clip from THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT (1974, narrated by Frank Sinatra). They only used a portion of the number in that film.

Just imagine this in colour!!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

That would truly be spectacular!

@alopez4435

4 жыл бұрын

I always wonder what it would look like in color.

16 seconds in the second girl on the left in white totally looses count and messes up. She plonks herself down on that step it must have been a real jolt. I always wonder if any of the other three girls noticed, or any of the boys on the stairs to the right. The boys have very little time to move from the two lines facing each other to the one line up the side of the staircase. The lead girl in black also has to move to where Dennis Morgan was standing for his last part of his solo section, between the first two girls in the big white frocks. All of the girls in black with the black masks also had to do a mad dash while the camera is focusing on Virginia Bruce in time for the pull-back. Dennis Morgan also has to run from the end of his opening solo which is before this clip starts at the very beginning of the number, behind the massive curtain while action/dancing is going on in front of it, to be in his place for the final solo. As fabulous, truly fabulous as this number is, I've watched it so many times and focused on what the camera isn't picking up. A LOT of running to get into new positions for that pull-back. It would have been absolutely incredible to have worked on this. That contraption that lifts the huge weight of fabric in the curtains must have been massive and very complicated. Not only is it lifting the curtain with it's weight, but it's also lifting it AND turning at the same time and lifting and lowering in in drops! Amazing, amazing work.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

Жыл бұрын

Very nice observations

@kevincoxhead7137

Жыл бұрын

@@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester thanks for that. It is one of my favourite numbers... it has a couple of faults but.. imagine stopping because it was your fault! or simply because a dress wasn't sitting quite right! One of the girls at the top of the stairs also moves her head around to get Virginia Bruce's dress away from her so she can be seen. Very annoying.

@kevincoxhead7137

Жыл бұрын

@@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester third girl from the very top below Virginia Bruce.. she pushes Miss Bruce's dress to one side so she can be seen! Naughty! And captured on film forever.

How did they remember all those steps? By practising about 16 hours a day, I guess!

@cynthiacorcoran9389

4 жыл бұрын

I started dancing at two weeks old. Shirley 1959

Utter perfection

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't put it better myself!

And all narrated by Francis Albert Sinatra

meu Deus como amo ver isso.... queria ter vivido nesse tempo

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

Just how much fabric did that curtain require?

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, unbelievable!

@EJP286CRSKW

5 жыл бұрын

4,300 yards of silk rayon according to the publicity, if you can believe that.

Veo estas interpretaciones y Wow ,palabras con emosion de ver actuaciones de verdadero valor artistico,verdaderos artistas y lo mejor en su tipo,

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

👍

0:45 Such a strange vibrato. Guys and gals both sang that way back in the day.

@ronaldcammarata3422

4 жыл бұрын

Just to be vlear, though Dennis Morgan is in the movie, it is Alan Jones's voice you hear singing.

There were said to be 400 chorus girls who worked regularly in Hollywood at this time, but Seymour Felix, the choreographer, found it hard to round up twenty who fitted his requirements. They had to be at least 5 ft 6 ins tall, above average for American girls, with faces that stood up to close-ups. Felix won the second Oscar given for dance direction for this scene, but he walked off his next assignment, 'Born to Dance', when his ideas for the finale were shot down by Cole Porter and Eleanor Powell. Felix's career then declined. His Broadway-based notions of staging, like Ziegfeld's, were too static for *motion* pictures.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that, Esmee. Good information. I wonder how much money this effect cost?

Just simply beautiful. And folks they don't make them like this anymore. So take lessons.😊❤

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

2 жыл бұрын

So very, very true. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@allisonyoung4285

2 жыл бұрын

​@@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester Yes I did!❤

I Love this! I sing this song to myself a lot. Unfortunately, this clip is only half of the whole production.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I wish I had the entire clip.

The Great Ziegfeld (MGM, 1936)

@alopez4435

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I saw this movie in the 60s on TV when I was a girl. I've never forgotten that staircase. I love those old black and white movies. They were the best!!!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

@@alopez4435 You're welcome.

Fucking best ever of any tap dance duo ever!

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Amazing isn't it? Incredible.

Compare this to some of our current crap such as rap, etc and we've lost so much we cannot reclaim.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

3 ай бұрын

I could not agree with you more if I tried! It's very sad.

Jewelry box of dream so sweet…

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

Lovely...

Oh Yeah!

Without reading all the comments, I don't know if anyone has already mentioned it...but it's worth mentioning anyway. For some reason I have never heard, Dennis Morgan's singing voice was dubbed over wih Allan Jones's voice. Why? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

Жыл бұрын

I believe, yes, somebody does mention that. Although, whether they offer the reason, sorry, I cannot remember.

@irmar

Жыл бұрын

Ehm... About ten times? (and I haven't read them all).

@aresee8208

Жыл бұрын

​@@irmar Do you feel better now?

This is only the last part of this sequence.

Прелесть какая💥🔥

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester

4 жыл бұрын

It certainly is!!

מה קרה לסרטים המצוינים האלה? האם זה הקללה שדור ישכח מה שהלך קודם?

Why was Dennis Morgan's voice dubbed when Dennis Morgan has such a beautiful voice his self. Dennis's singing voice was beautiful in "The Dessert Song" and many other Warner Bros. musicals.

@cfg2704

6 жыл бұрын

Robert Anderson probably because of the acoustics and size of theatre.

@robertszvetics210

6 жыл бұрын

he was dubbed Christ I never knew that

@EJP286CRSKW

5 жыл бұрын

CF G Acoustics and size of what theatre? The MGM sound recording studio? With all the microphones? What are you talking about?

@stonesdude154

5 жыл бұрын

Does "dubbed" mean someone other than Dennis Morgan sang it or did just sing it in a studio and just mouthed the words for this performance

@RubyRosaRudy

4 жыл бұрын

The original “Follies” production starred John Steel, a lyric tenor, so for a semblance of historical accuracy Allan Jones was given the song to record in the manner of John Steel, and Dennis Morgan, a lyric “bari-tenor” whose timbre sounded nothing like Steel’s, lip-synched to Jones’s recorded performance.