An American in Paris at the Glasgow Film Festival
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Glasgow Film Festival.Sunday 19th February, 11am – An American in Paris (1951) An American in Paris at 11 o’clock on a Sunday morning? This will gauge the true extent of Gene’s appeal in the old city, and, I have to say, the turnout was pretty good, much better than I had anticipated — not like yesterday’s packed-to-the-rafters crowd, but pretty close. As usual we began with an introduction from Allan Hunter and a thank you to the sponsors...
Read MoreDancing in the Rain: BBC Radio 2
Today on BBC Radio 2, a host of people pays tribute to our favorite singer/dancer/director/entertainer, Gene Kelly. Join Len Goodman (Dancing with the Stars), Matthew Morrison (Glee), Leslie Caron, Kerry Kelly Novick (Gene’s daughter), and yours truly for a documentary that plans to “celebrate the magical feet of a Hollywood legend, 100 after his birth in 1912.” UK: 10:00 pm EST: 5:00 pm CST: 4:00 pm Listen online here. Press release...
Read MoreLeslie Caron Speaks with BBC News
In this clip with BBC News, Leslie Caron discusses her role in An American in Paris (1951) and Hollywood pictures in general. The clip runs about 3.5 minutes. An American in Paris is currently playing in the U.K., which Sue has written about here and here. And you’ll find several other posts on the film...
Read MoreAn American In Paris, A Brit In Heaven
On 2nd November I made a flying visit to London, to the British Film Institute, to hear Leslie Caron talk about her career and to see a newly restored print of An American In Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951). I am back home now but still on quite another planet. I was totally stunned by AAIP on the big screen. I am not usually lost for words, but I don’t really know how to describe it. I’ll try below. On the Restoration Firstly, the restoration is fantastic. They have taken some of...
Read MoreDebbie Reynolds Auction: The Results
Debbie Reynolds’s Hollywood memorabilia auction closed today. Here’s a blurb from Profiles in History, which put on the event: The Debbie Reynolds Collection is deemed to be the most significant collection of Hollywood costumes and props since the liquidation of the MGM and FOX studios in the 1970’s. The entire collection contains over 3,500 costumes, 20,000 original photographs, several thousand original movie posters, original costume sketches and hundreds of key props from film...
Read MoreTCM 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...
Read MoreCelebrating Dance at the TCM Classic Film Festival
In this column, the LA Times reports on the “unusual number” of dance-related films, stars, and themes at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival, e.g., screenings of An American in Paris, Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and in person, Leslie Caron, Jane Powell, Mickey Rooney, Debbie Reynolds, George Chakiris (Bernardo in West Side Story), Marge Champion (Show Boat), Debbie Allen (Fame), Vince Paterson (directed videos for Michael Jackson and...
Read MoreA Parisian in America: Leslie Caron Opens the TCM Classic Festival
Leslie Caron opens the TCM Classic Festival with a talk about An American in Paris. From the article: Still spritely at 79, actress Leslie Caron happily reminisced about her career before a Thursday night screening of her 1951 film “An American in Paris.” The French actress, who was hand-picked by star Gene Kelly to co-star in the Academy Award-winning MGM musical, told a sold-out crowd at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre that she only auditioned to be polite to Mr. Kelly and was surprised...
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