Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasant but undistinguished musical score, and Fred Astaire. Astaire alone makes the show worth seeing. At the age of 50 and after several "retirements," he has still enough dancing magic to make an ordinary musical sparkle, but this should come as no surprise. What is news is that Jane Powell, the current in a long list of Astaire dancing partners, sings and dances with enough youthful enthusiasm to rival the old master...
Elizabeth Trygstad Fast won the senior presidential election. Connaught O'Connell is vice president; Joan Smith, secretary; Louise Horgan, treasurer; and Jane Larsen and Nina Ratzeradorfer, council representatives...
...Garden offers, along with the assured and vital gifts of an experienced playwright, the wavering and uncertain movement of a transitional play. It is greatly enhanced by the production: by Harold Clurman's staging, Howard Bay's set, the acting of Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Ethel Griffies, Jane Wyatt, and most of all Joan Lorring in the difficult role of the niece...
Ironically, Royal Wedding's plot seems no less a banal fiction for patterning itself loosely on the true story of how the famed dance team of Adele & Fred Astaire broke up. The movie's Astaire and his sister-partner (Jane Powell) are musicomedy favorites who dabble in an occasional romance, but shun matrimony on the theory that they owe themselves exclusively to their joint career. When they go to London to do a show, romance pairs Jane with a young peer (Peter Lawford) and Fred with a chorus girl (competently played by Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah...
...enlisted man (Harvey Lembeck) from that show's original cast. Unfortunately, the script is not up to the job of sustaining the hilarity of its idea at feature length. The picture loses pressure when repeating its shenanigans, sighs windily in romantic interludes between Cooper and his WAVE wife (Jane Greer). But more frequently, when it gets up a full head of steam, U.S.S. Teakettle bubbles with...