My jazz fingers are tingling in anticipation of Bob Fosse's first piece of on screen choreography!! #KissMeKate #TCMParty
Kathryn Grayson
Birth: 9 Feb 1922
Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA
#Death: 17 Feb 2010 aged 88
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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That line reminds me of the gangsters in #KissMeKate
#ShieldForMurder #NoirAlley #TCMParty
"Brush up your Shakespeare"
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.... #KissMeKate but I certainly wouldn't have stood up for it (to be fair the stage manager would have probably asked the audience for the filmed performance to do it so it looked good on screen).
Watching #KissMeKate on the iPlayer. Adrian Dunbar not a bad singer. It's not as a good as the Old Vic production back in 2012 though.
#KissMeKate opened on Broadway #OnThisDay in 1948, one of #ColePorter's greatest #musicals, with great songs, such as "Tom, Harry or Dick," performed here by Ann Miller, Harold Lang, Edwin Clay & Charles Wood in the 1953 film:
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Same
And also what a scene/performance. Need more movie musicals that just showcase talent and beautiful sets. #KissMeKate
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I could watch "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" daily.
Every time I watch #KissMeKate I am startled anew by how much innuendo they got away with
"Any Tom, Dick, or Harry, any Tom, Harry, or Dick! A dicka dick!"
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Keel’s jacket looks like a Crown Royal bag. #TCMParty #KissMeKate
Our #weather #forecast for the past several weeks and foreseeable future.
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I've never seen this version of #TamingoftheShrew, but I have seen #KissMeKate and #10ThingsIHateAboutYou. I think '10 Things' is my fave, perhaps due to nostalgia because it came out when I was in high school & took place in the PNW where I live--though I live near Portland, not Seattle. #TCMParty
I feel like @tcmtv.bsky.social should play #KissMeKate after running this version of #TheTamingoftheShrew despite it being #SummerUnderTheStars #SUTS #TCMParty. ☺️
That blue eyeshadow! Wow!
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Right... just that in theatre, make up is always exaggerated for those sitting in the back row can see actors' faces better.
But at this is the film, it gives pause to wonder as every so often we get a slim glimpse of the theatre audience.
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Keel is sportin' some eye makeup too!
Who's it for... the theatre audience in the film or audience watching the film.
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man. i really hate that shakespeare guy.
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The violence in #KissMeKate must have been a lot of fun in 3-D. #TCMParty
It's really hard to resist #KissMeKate... #TCMParty
Even these two are dancing aristocracy... Jeanne Coyne, the ex-wife of Stanley Donen and future wife of Gene Kelly and Bobby Van. Yes, that Bobby Van, the human pogo stick from Small Town Girl... /fin #SUTS #TCMParty #KissMeKate
...just look at his precision here! Makes Ann Miller look like a clodhopper (which is is practically impossible to do!) Oh! Later Rall became a nationally renowned operatic tenor cuz one god given gift wasn't enuf... #SUTS #TCMParty #KissMeKate
Another one of Gene Kelly's favorite dancers (Donald O'Connor, no slouch himself dance wise, said he was the greatest above Kelly and Astaire) - Tommy Rall. #SUTS #TCMParty #KissMeKate
Rall was known for his acrobatic style of dancing but...
But let's not forget the other critical factor, Carol Haney, one of the most accomplished dancers ever! Gene Kelly's assistant, she finally got her due on B'way in The Pajama Game! #SUTS #TCMParty #KissMeKate
Including jazz hands! #SUTS #TCMParty #KissMeKate
I know its Howard Keel day on TCM but I'll be watching #KissMeKate for this number ("From this Moment On") with its amazing dancers... Hermes Pan set it up except for a bit which was Bob Fosse first on-screen choreography! It's 1 minute packed with pure Fosse moves... 🧵 #SUTS #TCMParty
Picking at least four 🐛 a day from the #kissmekate #roses 😩 mean while, Malcolm (in the middle) and Blake are going okay (fingers crossed)
We saw this Tony Award-winning Glorious revival twice on Broadway! It never gets old!! #KissMeKate youtu.be/IUFsurgNU9M?...