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Life is becoming a Hollywood musical — and I mean that in a good way

Tweet I awoke in the night with a song stuck in my head and a post ready for the writing.  Then reality intruded.  Let me explain…. The song was “It’s a grand night for singing,” from State Fair, a very popular 1945 musical with songs from Rogers and Hammerstein.  Aside from the fact that I [...]

Patriotic Hollywood

Tweet It’s actually hard to find old patriotic songs from WWII era Hollywood because not many are loaded onto YouTube.  Here’s a short one, though, from Hollywood Canteen:

Coffee Time — old Hollywood style

Tweet One of the lesser known gems of MGM’s great musical era is a 1945 Fred Astaire movie called Yolanda and the Thief, with Fred as the thief and Lucille Bremer as Yolanda.  (Lesser know, probably, because it was a huge box office bust with end-of-the-war audiences.)  The plot is paper thin, but the visuals [...]