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Show Boat

Showboat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner
Show Boat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner Product description of Show Boat  One of the greatest Broadway musicals comes to the screen in this tale of music, racial bigotry and enduring love as outsized as the American heartland set aboard a Mississippi River Show Boat. Magnolia Brown has grown...
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It Happened in Brooklyn

It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Gloria Grahame Synopsis of It Happened in Brooklyn “Everybody is miserable in Brooklyn!” declares Anne Fielding, a pretty music teacher. It may start out that way, but Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Jimmy Durante, and...
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Ziegfeld Follies

Ziegfeld Follies (1945) starring William Powell, Red Skelton, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly,  Lucille Ball,  Lena Horne, Kathryn Grayson and many more
Ziegfeld Follies (1945) starring William Powell, Red Skelton, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly,  Lucille Ball,  Lena Horne, Kathryn Grayson and many more Ziegfeld Follies is an attempt at recreating the spectacle of Flo Ziegfeld’s famous Broadway shows … And so the film is a series of unrelated musical and...
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Till the Clouds Roll By

Till the Clouds Roll By starring Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Paul Langton
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) starring Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Paul Langton, Dorothy Patrick A fictionalized biography of composer Jerome Kern, that begins with a short version of his famous Show Boat musical, with much of his life told in flashback, including his partnership with Oscar Hammerstein. It’s...
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The Vanishing Virginian

The Vanishing Virginian, starring Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson
The Vanishing Virginian (1942), starring Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson Frank Morgan stars in a rare leading role in The Vanishing Virginian and does it well.  It’s a sweet, tender story – with moments of bitter-sweetness.  The funeral scene for Josh is truly touching, as well as giving Kathryn Grayson...
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Anchors Aweigh [Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly]

Anchors Aweigh [Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly]
Editorial review of Anchors Aweigh (1945) courtesy of Amazon.com Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra teamed up for their first of three musical comedies in this frothy confection of sailors on leave in Hollywood, with gawky, shy young Sinatra tagging along with his worldly buddy Kelly, who promises to...
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Thousands Cheer

Thousands Cheer (1943) starring Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson
Thousands Cheer (1943) starring Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson Thousands Cheer is a  musical romance, set in the U.S.A. during World War II.   The first half of the movie deals with Kathryn Roberts (played by Kathryn Grayson). She’s a  concert singer who is retiring from the stage to work...
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Lovely to Look At, starring Red Skelton, Howard Keel

Lovely to Look At
movie review of Lovely to Look At (1952) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Ann Miller  Lovely to Look At is a combination romance, musical, comedy, and fashion show — no, really.   It’s the story of three Americans (Al Marsh played by Red Skelton, Tony Naylor played by Howard Keel, Jerry Ralby played by Gower Champion). They...
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes lyrics

Smoke gets in your eyes lyrics - Gower and Marge Champion dancing in Lovely to Look At
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes lyrics   — €“ music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Otto A. Harbach and Dorothy Fields sung by Kathryn Grayson, and later danced by Gower Champion and Marge Champion in Lovely to Look At
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