Word: minnelli
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strike a humorous note, so does this musical comedy give the impression that it is laughing at itself and having a delightful time all the while. A fresh and often amusing plot jogs in and out and around a score of singing and dancing sequences formidably staged by Vincente Minnelli, reaching a high when Hiram Sherman narrates in something akin to blank verse "The Strange Case of Adam Standish" and a "Ballet Peculiare" in fantastic costumes acts out his words with fantastic action...
Sharing credit with Wynn for the show's success is able Vincente Minnelli, trained in the hard school of movie stage-shows, who directed it and designed the scenery...
...Show Is On ("conceived" by Vincente Minnelli; Shuberts, producers) is the sort of thing youthful Conceiver Minnelli must have dreamed of doing when he was indefatigably designing costumes and painting sets for the ponderous weekly stage shows at Manhattan's giant Radio City Music Hall. The Show Is On is a superior sequel to his At Home Abroad (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935). In it Mr. Minnelli has the nation's eight greatest show-song writing teams working for him. Spectators are still trying to remember how the Rodgers & Hart tune goes when the band begins playing an even...
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (Brothers Shubert, Producers) falls comfortably into the mold of its 24 predecessors. None of its comedy is funny enough to make anyone wear himself out laughing. On the other hand, Vincente Minnelli's diverting surrealist decor, the arts of a half-dozen stars and the blandishments of 48 show girls are likely to keep most spectators from going to sleep. Only if he expects Josephine Baker to be something out of the ordinary will a ticket holder be actually disappointed by this year's Follies...