Posts Tagged "classical Hollywood"

Gene Kelly Shoe Molds (eBay)

Posted by on Feb 28, 2013 in featured, novelties | 0 comments

Gene Kelly Shoe Molds (eBay)

Bid on Gene Kelly shoes molds. Description on eBay follows… Gene Kelly Shoe Mold by Pasquale Di Fabrizio Bid now on this original shoe mold made for actor and performer Gene Kelly by “Shoemaker to the Stars” Pasquale Di Fabrizio! This one of a kind mold was hand crafted (after a personal fitting) then was used to create footwear to match Gene Kelly’s specific needs. Length from back heel to toe is about 10.5 inches. Measures about 2.6 inches from ankle to back heel and...

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TCM Classic Film Fest: From An American In Paris To Fantasia

Posted by on May 8, 2011 in musicals, news | 1 comment

TCM Classic Film Fest: From An American In Paris To Fantasia

A wrap up about the TCM Classic Film Festival by Mike Wilmington of the Movie City News: “The second edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood…. It began and it ended in that most magical of all super-Hollywood movie palaces, Grauman‘s Chinese Theatre — with two great examples of the kind of things Hollywood does best: A classic Gene Kelly Hollywood Musical and a classic Walt Disney feature length cartoon: An American In Paris in the first case, and Fantasia in the...

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MGM Musicals: A Primer

Posted by on Mar 3, 2011 in musicals, videos | 0 comments

MGM Musicals: A Primer

The Onion‘s AV Club recently posted a nice overview on MGM musicals. Here’s the AV Club’s definition of their primers: Primer is The A.V. Club’s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. This installment: the feature-length musicals produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during Hollywood’s “golden age.” Most of the information on...

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Gloria Vanderbilt and Gene Kelly?

Posted by on Nov 9, 2010 in musicals | 0 comments

Gloria Vanderbilt and Gene Kelly?

Justine Picardie reviews a new book on the life of Gloria Vanderbilt — the headline-friendly socialite, serial wife and fashion designer. Vanderbilt’s tragedies and tumultuous [life] events were to be chronicled not only by tabloids, television reports, a miniseries and various glossy magazines, but also by Vanderbilt herself in a series of memoirs and autobiographical novels. One of these — It Seemed Important at the Time — described her numerous...

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