Performances from America's greatest musicals (both stage and cinema). Performances represent personal favorities that I hope you like as much as I do. Please enjoy!
Nancy Kwan was the star of 1961 Flower Drum Song, after Suzy Wong. She was in the Royal Ballet in London before, and became Hollywood's most glamorous Asian actress of the 60s. This song (in Pat Suzuki's broadway version) has far transcended the musical, which faded away in the age of political correctness, perhaps because it so flaunts feminist sensibilities of all women.
ABC's Nightline on July 9 featured the new musical "Xanadu," opening on Broadway on July 10.
From the BBC documentary "The Broadway Musical", the section on Disney musicals.
From the BBC documentary "The Broadway Musical", the section on "Wicked".
My all time favourite Musical number Downtown.... where depression´s just status quo
Fred Astaire is sheer dynamite in "Drum Crazy" from "Easter Parade" (1948).
Danny Kaye at his smoothest performing "Anatole of Paris" from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947).
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers like you've never seen them dance before to "I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket".
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance to "They All Laughed" from 1937's "Shall We Dance".
The positively electric Fred Astaire sings and dances the title song to 1935's "Top Hat".
Bing Crosby in the finest voice of his career with IMO the best tune in 1956's "High Society" - Cole Porter's "I Love You, Samantha." With Louis Armstrong and Grace Kelly.
Fred and Ginger are pure poetry in motion performing Cole Porter's "Night and Day" from "The Gay Divorcee" (1934). The tag line to the dance is just killer!
Jerry Lewis as Buddy Love sings "That Old Black Magic" from Jerry's masterpiece, "The Nutty Professor". To know me, is to love me...
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the "Runnin' Wild" number from Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot".
The adorable Bessie Love in a great number, "I Never Knew I Could Do A Thing Like That!" from "Hollywood Revue of 1929".
For the only time in Technicolor, Bing does some South Seas crooning to Dotty with "To See You Is To Love You" from "Road to Bali" (1952).
Rosemary Clooney shines in the delightfully campy "Ali Baba Be My Baby" from 1953's "Here Come the Girls".
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DTS Hollywood Musical Moment; "You're All The World To Me"
Fred Astaire dances on the floor, the walls and the ceiling to the dynamite tune, "You're All The World To Me", from "Royal Wedding" (1951).
Judy Garland at her zenith with "The Boy Next Door" from "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944).
The Andrews Sisters sing and dance the kickin' "Bounce Me Brother With A Solid Four".
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