#Gene Garrett

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Rockets 2024, Friday, May 3, Central Texas/Stonewall Weather Weary Launch Report

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Sharing more old screenshots of Gene. These are from 2016.

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They paint the town with joy!

Stanley Donen’s and Gene Kelly’s ON THE TOWN premiered in New York City in December 8, 1949 #OnThisDay

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Devil Times Five AKA Peopletoys, The Horrible House On The Hill, & Tantrums (1974), Dir. Sean MacGregor & David Sheldon.

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the typa polycule i need to be in rn 🔥🔥🔥

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Detail from a 1950 advertisement for the film On The Town by totallymystified Via Flickr: Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Jules Munshin, Ann Miller, Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen.

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‘On the Town’, 1949

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Betty Garrett-Frank Sinatra "Un día en Nueva York" (On the town) 1949, de Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly.

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WATCHLIST 2023: On the Town

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DEVIL TIMES FIVE Reviews and details of new Vinegar Syndrom e4K/Blu-ray release

Buy Vinegar Syndrome 4K/Blu-ray from Amazon.com Newly restored in 4K from its 35mm original negative and boasting a whole host of new and archival extras, Vinegar Syndrome has given the royal treatment to this consummate trash classic with its 4K UHD debut! Released September 24, 2024, and available to preorder now. Features: 1. 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD/Region Free Blu-ray 2. 4K UHD presented in…

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Rockets 2023, Friday, May 5, Central Texas/Stonewall Launch Report

Rockets 2023, Central Texas/Stonewall Edition, continued today. The original schedule listed 26 rockets for today. Three rockets aborted, bringing the total launched to 23. Georgetown arrived at Stage 3 first with 7 vehicles, making the first full volley all theirs, with rockets in the air starting at 10:51 a.m. Mission Complete was at 7:07 p.m. It was a slightly longer day today. Tomorrow only…

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Words and Music

MGM’s four songwriter biographies work better as collections of music videos than as movies. They pulled in audiences because most of their musical stars drop in for numbers that far outshine the book scenes. WORDS AND MUSIC (1948, TCM, YouTube) — you can’t really credit a film like this to even as good a director as Norman Taurog — is no exception. It has, arguably, the worst script of any of their musical bios, but also some of the best numbers.

This is supposed to be the story of Richard Rodgers (Tom Drake) and Lorenz Hart (Mickey Rooney), but there was so little they could do with the former’s life he comes off as something of a bore and so little they could show of the latter’s his psychological problems make no sense. In the film he moons over a failed singer (Betty Garrett), and though in real life Broadway star Vivienne Segal’s refusal of his marriage proposal triggered the binge that led to his death from pneumonia, his falling apart over Garrett makes about as much sense as casting her as a failed anything. Rooney tries hard to make it all work, but absent Hart’s struggles to deny his homosexuality, there’s no there there. Only one sequence generates a believable sense of loneliness. The guests leave at the end of a lavish party he’s thrown, and he’s left alone with the band and Mel Torme, who sings “Blue Moon” as Rooney somehow seems to sink into himself.

For the rest, you can probably fix snacks or step out for a smoke during the dialog scenes and pop back in for the better musical numbers with the likes of June Allyson, Ann Sothern and, briefly, the young Allyn Ann McLerie. Their hoofing is mostly fine, but Gene Kelly and Vera-Ellen take all honors in the dance department with their seven-minute “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.” Lena Horne turns up to show you how to sing a standard (two, in fact), and then Judy Garland shows up and says “Hold my beer.” The film also marked MGM’s attempt to launch Perry Como’s career as a film star. It’s like trying to shoot someone with a wet noodle. His relaxed charm, perfect for TV, is all wrong for movie musicals, and he keeps getting upstaged by the scenery. As a crowning insult to Hart, Como comes out to sing the final tribute at his memorial. Fortunately, that’s cut up with brief reprises from the other numbers, though why a celebration of the great lyricist includes a clip from “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” a wordless ballet, is anybody’s guess.

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Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen.

"We're going on the town, New York,

We're riding on a rocket, we're going to really sock it,

Because tonight's the night."

New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down The people ride in a hole in the ground New York, New York, it’s a wonderful town! ON THE TOWN (1949) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

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Lobby Cards for Peopletoys AKA Devil Times Five & The Horrible House On The Hill (1974), Dir. Sean MacGregor & David Sheldon.

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This is one of those it’s-not-bad-but-it-isn’t-for-me type of films. I didn’t enjoy it, not my cup of tea, too much singing and dancing and not enough of an actual story. On The Town received the Oscar for Best Music-Scoring of a Musical Picture for Roger Edens & Lennie Hayton.