#Oscar levant

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Oscar Levant, born on December 27, 1906 #botd

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The Cobweb (1955) Vincente Minnelli

October 28th 2024

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Gershwin / Oscar Levant, Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra – Rhapsody In Blue (1945)

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Reclining Ginger behind the scenes on the Barkleys of Broadway.

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Oscar Levant, December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972.

1972 photo by Richard Avedon.

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Oscar Levant, Andre Kostelanetz, George Gershwin, Concerto In F, Rhapsody In Blue

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Julie doing “stuff” with famous people (17th post)

Behind the scenes of BODY AND SOUL, director Robert Rossen rushes behind Julie. Rossen was a screenwriter for three of Julie’s earlier films: DUST BE MY DESTINY, THE SEA WOLF, and OUT OF THE FOG.

Before a scene is filmed for HE RAN ALL THE WAY, a camera crew member test tones on Julie and Shelly Winters with a light meter.

Julie, Jennifer Jones and director, John Huston get a kick out of a visitor to the set of WE WERE STRANGERS.

Richard Conte and Ruth Hussey take in an event with Julie as spectators. Not sure what the event was but they seem to be enjoying their conversation.

Julie with Ramon Novarro on the set of WE WERE STRANGERS.

In the first Hollywood Players radio program, Rex Harrison, Julie and Gregory Peck present flowers to Bette Davis after her performance of a one-act play based on Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop” in 1946.

Julie and Gregory Peck in a still from GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT.

AND…Julie and Oscar Levant in a still from HUMORESQUE.

A publicity shot featuring Julie and Cary Grant makes use of a DESTINATION TOKYO still to tout war bonds, the movie and the stars.

David Niven visits Julie and Lily Palmer on the set of BODY AND SOUL.

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Did anyone else have a composer-stan phase as a child or were y'all like, normal?

This question brought to you by: I just heard Sean Hayes (love him) is playing Oscar Levant (obsessed!) in Good Night, Oscar right now (apparently not new but new to me) and I'm reminded how TURNT I got on Levant and Gershwin as a kid.

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The clerk who is thrown out of work By the boss who is thrown for a loss By the skirt who is doing him dirt The world is a stage The stage is a world of entertainment!

"That's Entertainment!" from The Band Wagon (1953) – music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz; performed by Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant, and Fred Astaire

As perhaps the most memorable original song in one of MGM's best musicals, "That's Entertainment!" has taken a life of its own as one of the studio's (and Hollywood's) unofficial anthems. Appearing in the opening act of The Band Wagon, a friend of actors gleefully perform together just as they are about to go into rehearsals for a musical comedy.

"That's Entertainment!" was also the title name of three documentaries detailing MGM's history – the first in 1974 (when the studio was on the verge of demolishing its storied soundstages, which are now home to Sony Pictures Studios), the second in in 1976, and the final one in 1994.

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Mitzi Gaynor and Oscar Levant in Lloyd Bacon’s THE I DON’T CARE GIRL (1953).

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Tuesday, April 25 — 8:00 p.m. ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (1948) A singer on a Caribbean cruise gets mixed up in a series of romantic problems.

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Romance On The High Seas, 1948

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Lively Mind in a Sick Body

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Musical Monday: An American in Paris (1951)

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: American in Paris (1951) – Musical #8 Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Vincente Minnelli Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie…

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An American in Paris

directed by Vincente Minnelli, 1951