Movies --
Applause ~ 1929
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Henry Wadsworth
Composer(s): Irving Berlin,
Plot: Kitty Darling tries to save good girl April Darling, Hitch is a freak!
Love Me Tonight ~ 1932
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald,
Composer(s): Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Plot: A tailor pretends he's important and falls in love with a "princess."
Night & Day ~ 1946
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Wooley
Composer(s): Max Steiner
Plot: Cole Porter's life, no hint of his bisexuality
De-Lovely ~ 2004
Director: Irwin Winkler
Stars: Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd
Composer(s): Cole Porter
Lyrics: Cole Porter
Plot: Modern Cole Porter story, Linda is a little tougher
Swing Time ~ 1936
Director: George Stevens
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rodgers,
Composer(s): Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Robert Russel Bennet
Choreographer(s): Hermes Pan
Plot: Lucky wants to marry girl, but needs $25 grand, goes to NY, meets Penny, falls in love.
Gigi ~ 1958
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Eva Gabor, Isabel Jeans
Composer(s): Alan Jay Lerner, Fredrick Loewe
Plot: Gigi sent to "girl school." Becomes a lady and attracts a "royal" man.
People to Know --
Bob Fosse - choreographer, director, screenwriter, Cabaret, The Little Prince
Buzbee Berkeley - women and geometric shapes, like a crazy trip angles
Gower Champion - choreography/director
Fred Astraire - camera fixated on the dancers, like watching from 5th row, ballroom/tap
Gene Kelly - camera more free, using more space, connection between dancers and camera
Irving Berlin - composer and lyricist, hella days good!
George Gershwin - composer, died early of a brain tumor
Cole Porter - composer, lyricist, Night & Day, Linda
Types of musicals --
Backstage (Applause)
Fairytale (Love Me Tonight)
Folk (Annie Get Your Gun)
The Great Depression made musicals happy things.
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