Musicals - Dance Films. Musicals. / Dance Filmsare. Or they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance. In traditional musicals, cast members are ones who sing. This genre has been. Tremendous film. choreography and orchestration often enhances musical numbers. See this site's extensive compilation of the Greatest Musical Song/Dance Movie Moments. Scenes (illustrated)Introduction: With the coming of talking motion pictures, the musical film. They were the last of the major film genres. Recently, animated films. Beauty and the Beast (1. Aladdin. (1. 99. 2), The Lion King (1. Tarzan (1. 99. 9)) have emerged. Best Original. Song Oscars. The Earliest Examples of Sound/Dance Films: One of the earliest films with a famous dance sequence was The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1. Latin lover Rudolph. Valentino's sensuous tango performed in a smoky cantina while dressed in an. Argentine gaucho costume. The groundbreaking film cleverly synchronized. Warner Brothers' Experiments with Sound: Warner Bros. It was a short- lived system sound- on- disk process developed in 1. This sound- on- disk. Each disc. corresponded to one reel of film, or about ten minutes. The process was first. The Jazz Singer (1. A Landmark Film. With. New York City at the Warner Theatre on October 6, 1. Contrary to popular belief, it was not the first sound. Hollywood musical (The Broadway Melody (1. It. was also not the first instance of sound- on- film. In reality, the landmark part- talkie singing film was an old- fashioned melodrama about Jewish- bred 'jazz. Ciak Hollywood - The Cartoons of Hollywood. George Gershwin, geboren als Jacob Gershowitz (Brooklyn, New York, 26 september 1898 – Hollywood, 11 juli 1937) was een Amerikaans componist. Gershwin werd vooral. Classic Movie Musicals: Actors and Actresses: B. Bon Voyage (1962) The Children's Hour (AAN, 1962) The President's Lady (1953). Hollywood Walk of Fame. Official Website: http://www.hollywoodchamber.net/walk-of-fame-welcome. Jakie Rabinowitz/Jake Robin (charismatic Broadway mega- star Al Jolson). His naturally- spoken words were the first ever heard in a full- length movie: Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet. Do you wanna hear 'Toot. Toot, Tootsie!'? All right, hold on, hold on. Play 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie!' Three choruses, you understand. In the. third chorus I whistle. Now give it to 'em hard and heavy. Go right ahead! In. Al Jolson teamed up once more with Warner. Bros. This follow- up film. Jolson was an even bigger success and soon became the biggest- grossing. Gone With the Wind (1. In fact, this film. It was a. sophisticated variation of the earlier hit in which Jolson crooned seven songs. They were: Lloyd Bacon's Say It With Songs (1. Michael Curtiz' Mammy (1. Irving Berlin. songs and Technicolor sequences, and Big Boy (1. Upheaval in the Industry: The other major film studios (Paramount, Loew's, First National. UA) realized the expensive and challenging ramifications of the sound. Most of the studios started to convert from. Thousands. of existing theaters had to be rewired for sound. In 1. 92. 7, only 4. US theatres. were wired for sound, but by the end of the decade, over 4. Many Hollywood actors/actresses. The industry standard was becoming sound- on- film - a more practical alternative than sound- on- disk. Most. early musicals were crudely made, due to technical limitations, and often. Broadway stars. were called in to become musical film stars. Broadway legend and popular Ziegfeld. Follies star Fannie (or Fanny) Brice (in her sound film debut) performed some of her. The studio thought she would be the female equivalent of Al Jolson, but the film was not financially successful. Brice (with her Yiddish persona and atypical star look) was not an overnight success on film, until her . The First Genuine Musical: The Broadway Melody (1. The. first genuine musical, fully integrating singing and dancing into a. MGM's first full- length musical, The Broadway Melody (1. It premiered in Hollywood in early February. Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and was the first widely- distributed. It was proudly advertised as . It. was the first musical film - and the first sound film as well. Academy Award for Best Picture. The film inspired three more Broadway. Melody films in the following decade - in 1. In 1. 92. 9, it also inspired an abundance of copycat imitators with similar 'backstage' or show- business- related plots. The landmark musical, with songs composed by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, starred Anita Page (as Queenie) and Oscar- nominated. Bessie Love (as older sibling Hank) as two sisters seeking fame in the New. York theatre - known as the Great White Way - while both were attracted to. Charles King (as Eddie). The. musical is outdated today and exhibits its clumsy vaudevillian, stage- bound. Jack Benny as master of ceremonies). However, it featured the. The film was also revolutionary. Brown's and Freed's songs were. Singin' in the Rain (1. Musical. arrangers, song- writers, conductors, and dance instructors hurried to the. West Coast to be part of the onslaught of 'talking' musicals. In particular. backstage musicals became the rage during the Great Depression, encouraging. Paramount's Astoria, Long Island. Some of the leading. Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter. George Gershwin, began to write original screen musicals or provide words. The studio associated with all- star extravaganzas and revue- type. MGM. MGM's follow- up film to its successful Best Picture entry. Chasing Rainbows (originally titled The Road Show) (1. Bessie Love (as Carlie) and Charles. King (as song- and- dance man Terry), with the memorable tune . Musicals. experienced a significant boom during the late 1. Broadway stars lured westward to Hollywood. Eddie Cantor was. Hollywood from Broadway, where he made his first sound film Whoopee! Silent film stars Corinne Griffith, Colleen Moore, and others. Pretty red- headed Paramount star Nancy Carroll appeared. Abie's Irish Rose (1. Hollywood actress to sing and dance on a sound stage, and also. Sweetie (1. 92. 9) and Honey (1. Portraying the 'girl- next- door', Carroll was notable as the first musical star to emerge within Hollywood. Janet Gaynor's first all- talking film was Fox's popular. Sunny Side Up (1. De. Sylva- Brown- Henderson) - and featuring the film debut of young 7 year- old Jackie Cooper. Also, Gaynor was again teamed with her silent film romantic partner Charles. Farrell (they were known as . The finale's bizarre, erotic and uninhibited production number . Early Operettas: Many of the first musical sound films. The first all- talking, all- singing. Warners' and Roy Del Ruth's The Desert Song (1. Technicolor sequences, which was based on the 1. Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II. It starred John. Boles as the Pimpernel- like Red Shadow - the handsome masked bandit leader of the French. Moroccan Riffs, and Carlotta King as heroine Margot. Myrna Loy also starred. Azuri. It was produced two more. Warner Bros, in 1. RKO's first major production was the stage adaptation Rio Rita (1. Technicolor sequence). Starring Bebe Daniels. Hispanic title character and John Boles as a Texas Ranger, it was a. Florenz Ziegfeld's 1. Broadway stage musical. Two of its stars from the original show, comics. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, went on to later fame in the early 3. MGM's Best Picture- nominated musical comedy The Rogue Song. Technicolor musical adapted from the 1. Gypsy Love, starring ex- Met baritone Lawrence Tibbett in his first. Oscar- nominated as Best Actor) as Yegor - the dashing leader. The Robbing Larks. New Moon. (1. 93. Jeanette Mac. Donald and Nelson Eddy). Metropolitan Opera soprano diva Grace Moore and ex- Met baritone Lawrence. Tibbett. In many. One of the first . Its star- studded cast included Joan Crawford. Charleston- dancing to . It was hosted by. Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel and was most notable for an early version of . Another. was Warners' color film The Show of Shows (1. Winnie Lightner singing the first renditions of . It also starred Myrna Loy, John Barrymore. Ben Turpin, 'Eight Sister Acts' and more, and was hosted by Master. Ceremonies Frank Fay. The film ended with a showstopper of ten different dance troupes. Universal's King of Jazz (1. It opened with a Walter Lantz cartoon (the first Technicolor sound cartoon ever made), then included the extravagant . It featured Nancy. Carroll (with . He was adept at effectively integrating. One. of his major innovations was to shoot his pictures without sound (it. His first sound and musical film was at Paramount, The. Love Parade (1. 92. Lubitsch skillfully used sound and smoothly avoided. It was one of the first movie musicals that integrated songs into the narrative story. The film. featured the delightful pairing of red- haired singer Jeanette Mac. Donald (in. her first film, debuting as the frustrated Queen Louise of Sylvania) and French. Maurice Chevalier in his second sound. Count Alfred Renard and Mac. Donald's consort/prince). The film. included such delightful songs as . Over the next three years, Lubitsch went on to direct three more musical comedies, collaborating again with Jeanette Mac. Donald and Maurice Chevalier: Monte Carlo (1. Riviera, starred Jeanette Mac. Donald (opposite Jack Buchanan) and contained the famous sequence. Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preynan, an Austrian lieutenant in the Viennese military) in addition to Claudette Colbert (as. Franzi, the violin- strumming leader of an all- girls' band) and Miriam Hopkins (as uptight Princess. Anna) - it was a charming Viennese- flavored operetta (based upon the 1. A Waltz Dream by Oscar Straus) - and a box- office hit (and Best Picture nominee). One of its more memorable songs was the honky- tonk piano- accompanied . One Hour With You (1. George Cukor) was a re- named remake of Lubitsch's earlier silent film comedy The Marriage Circle (1. Jeanette Mac. Donald with Maurice Chevalier as husband and wife (threatened by vamp Genevieve Tobin), with their duet: . It was loosely based on Franz Lehar's. Rodgers and Hart score, and won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope). Early Musical Directors: King Vidor One of the early landmark musical films was King Vidor's and MGM's melodramatic. Hallelujah! It was King Vidor's first talkie. And it was the first all- black feature film. Although the film contained some racial stereotypes. Deep South, regarding black man Zeke (Daniel. Haynes) who was led to commit manslaughter and murder within a love triangle. Chick (Nina Mae Mc. The best of George Gershwin ( Rhapsody in Blue , I got rhythm, etc etc ) HQVer. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known. Among his best known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1. An American in Paris (1. Porgy and Bess (1. Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark and Henry Cowell. He began his career as a song plugger, but soon started composing Broadway theatre works with his brother Ira Gershwin and Buddy De. Sylva. He moved to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, where he began to compose An American in Paris. After returning to New York City, he wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and the author Du. Bose Heyward. Initially a commercial failure,Porgy and Bess is now considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century. Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores until his death in 1. Gershwin's compositions have been adapted for use in many films and for television, and several became jazz standards recorded in many variations. Countless celebrated singers and musicians have covered his songs.
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