Showing posts with label Fred Astaire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fred Astaire. Show all posts

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Slender man


DADDY LONG LEGS

1955
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Written by Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, and Johnny Mercer (based on the novel Daddy-Long-Legs and play Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster)

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, October 31, 2021

If it was gay, bright, and beautiful, that's how Ziggy wanted it


ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

1946
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters, George Sidney, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, and Robert Lewis

Spoiler alert: inapplicable (and as I've said before, it's difficult to be brief with musicals or anthologies, and this one's both)

Saturday, August 21, 2021

It's impossible, but it is rather sweet


YOLANDA AND THE THIEF

1945
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Written by Irving Brecher, Jacques Thery, and Ludwig Bemelans

Spoiler alert: moderate

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Thank you Mr. Currier and thank you Mr. Ives


THE BELLE OF NEW YORK

1952
Directed by Charles Walters
Written by Chester Erskine, Robert O'Brien, and Irving Elinson (based on the play by Hugh Morton)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Saturday, February 6, 2021

An American against Paris


FUNNY FACE

1957
Directed by Stanley Donen
Written by Leonard Gershe

Spoiler alert: high, but it'd be your fault if you were surprised

Thursday, January 28, 2021

I thought that you two were related


ROYAL WEDDING

1951
Directed by Stanley Donen
Written by Alan Jay Lerner

Spoiler alert: high, I guess, but also effectively inapplicable