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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsATTENTION! 8:00 tonight, KISS ME KATE (1953)
A great show, with a great cast. We had the album when I was growing up.
Feuding co-stars reunite for a musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Dir: George Sidney Cast: Kathryn Grayson , Howard Keel , Ann Miller . C-110 mins.
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Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)LisaM
(27,827 posts)absolutely shines, and steals every single scene she is in. She's good in a lot of things, but in this, the part just seems written for her.
elleng
(131,077 posts)Siwsan
(26,289 posts)I was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Pan, when I took a transatlantic cruise. He was one of the guest speakers and I ran into him in one of the lounges. He was sitting all alone, at the bar, so my friend and I introduced ourselves. He could not have been more warm and friendly. We spent the next couple of hours listening to wonderful stories about old Hollywood.
He did a lot of work with Fred Astaire.
Fred and Hermes:
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What a wonderful thing to happen. And it's even better that he was nice.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)the middle of a Dick Cavett interview with him and thinking is this guy Fred Astaire's brother?
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I'm DEFINITELY in the mood now!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)elleng
(131,077 posts)Any Tom, Dick or Harry!!!
elleng
(131,077 posts)Paladin
(28,272 posts)In the big 3 guys/3 gals dance number late in the show, the guy in the yellow cap is a young Bob Fosse.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)I love this story and any version of it from Shakespeare's play to "10 things I hate about you".
elleng
(131,077 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)it was filmed in 3D and it shows during Miller's dance number.
elleng
(131,077 posts)'KISS ME KATE is almost, but not quite, a classic cinematic version of the hit Broadway musical. Filmed in 3-D, it was largely released "flat" when the 3-D craze began to wane. Boasting an intelligent and highly amusing book, this tunefest features paralle'
http://www.tvguide.com/movies/kiss-me-kate/103315/
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Broadway version from 2000.
Aristus
(66,448 posts)One of her castmates was Bill Brochtrup, who later went on to appear on NCIS.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110514/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
I went to school with his sister. She was very pretty. But not a pleasant person.
elleng
(131,077 posts)about your mother, that is.