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BATHING BEAUTY

1944

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Joseph Schrank, Kenneth Earl, M.M. Musselman, Curtis Kenyon, Allen Boretz, Frank Waldman, and Dorothy Kingsley

Spoilers: moderate

Look at me, I'm dancing

ANCHORS AWEIGH

1945

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Isobel Lennart (based on a story by Natalie Marcin)

Spoilers: moderate

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)

Hannibal ante portas

JUPITER'S DARLING

1955

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Dorothy Kingsley (based on the play The Road to Rome by Robert Sherwood)

Spoiler alert: unless you're somehow surprised to learn that Rome won the Second Punic War, actually quite mild

And, brother, she means any

KISS ME KATE

Close to, if not the finest example of its breed.

1953

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Dorothy Kingsley (based on the stageplay by Cole Porter, Samuel Spewack, and Bella Spewack)

With Kathryn Grayson (Lilli Vanessi/Katherine), Howard Keel (Fred Graham/Petruchio), Ann Miller (Lois Lane/Bianca), Tommy Rall (Bill Calhoun/Lucentio), Keenan Wynn (Lippy), James Whitmore (Slug), and Ron Randell (Cole Porter)

Spoiler alert: moderate