Cradle Will Rock (musical satire) (excerpts) (1982)
Subject
Great Depression
Satire in art
URL
Moll's Song (I'm Checkin' Home Now)
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Introduction by John Houseman for its 1982 revival by PBS
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Description
Content description from Acting Company (http://theactingcompany.org/plays/2017-18-season/the-cradle-will-rock-1982-83#overview) :
When first produced in 1937, The Cradle Will Rock, combined musical comedy form with a strong pro-labor statement in the midst of the Great Depression. The play is a satire on the evils of a town run by a corporation demonstrated in a series of rapidly sketched scenes with music: ballads, production numbers, extended sections of recitative. These show the control of Mr. Mister, archetypal capitalist and war profiteer exerts over the mythical Steeltown USA.
One scene shows Mr. Mister’s cozy relationship with Editor Daily, culminating in an arm-flapping dash/duet sung to “The Freedom of the Press.” In another scene the president of the university parades his compliant professors before Mr. Mister; in yet another scene, two artists, Dauber and Yasha, alternately fawn over and snarl at Mrs. Mister – hungry for patronage, despising their own dependency.
This production was staged by Mr. Houseman in the style of the 1937 original. Performed on a bare stage, the production incorporates Brechtian staging techniques with the on-stage piano player again delivering scene-setting announcements.
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Broadway Melody of 1940 (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell (performers) (excerpts) (1940)
Subject
Swing (Dance)
Musicals
URL
Trailer
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Begin the Beguine
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Excerpt
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Excerpt
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Operatic hilarious performance
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Description
Content Description from Wikipedia.org (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Melody_of_1940):
Johnny Brett (Fred Astaire) and King Shaw (George Murphy) are a dance team so down on their luck that they work in a dance hall for no money. Meanwhile, Clare Bennett (Eleanor Powell) is a big Broadway star. Owing to a case of mistaken identity, Shaw is offered the chance to be Clare's dancing partner in a new Broadway show, when it was really Johnny's dancing that producer Bob Casey (Frank Morgan) saw and wanted. The partnership breaks up, but Johnny still helps out King, who lets his newfound success go to his head. Clare eventually realizes that Johnny, not King, is the better dancer, and she falls in love after having lunch with him. When Shaw gets drunk on opening night, Johnny steps in and saves the show with a brilliant performance, though he lets King think he did it himself. Clare later tells King the truth. Just before the next show, Clare discovers King drunk again, and Johnny becomes the permanent replacement. After the show, they find out that King was pretending to be drunk so that Johnny would get the job.
Ephemera: text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide. Broadway Melody of 1940. Friendship and rivalry between dance partners sparks this delightful musical, highlighted by outstanding Cole Porter tunes. Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy star. Handwritten: Under Cover August 1985.
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Description
Content description from IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046807):
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
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Creator
Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, and Elaine Stewart (performers)
Babes on Broadway (motion picture) - Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney (performers) (excerpts) (1941)
Subject
Motion pictures
Musicals--Excerpts--Scores
URL
How About You?
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Chin up! Cheerio! Carry On!
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Tu canción
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You Cry Real Pretty
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Anything Can Happen in New York
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Yankee Doodle Boy
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Content Description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes_on_Broadway):
Babes on Broadway is a 1941 American musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garland's big solo numbers. The film, which features Fay Bainter and Virginia Weidler, was the third in the "Backyard Musical" series about kids who put on their own show, following Babes in Arms (1939) and Strike Up the Band (1940). Songs in the film include "Babes on Broadway" by Burton Lane (music) and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (lyrics), and "How About You?" by Lane with lyrics by Ralph Freed, the brother of producer Arthur Freed. The movie ends with a minstrel show performed by the main cast in blackface.
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Page from Under Cover magazine with program circled and brief description of program; small clipping with additional paragraph describing the program. Handwritten notes on folder: Judy Sings. Together Again, Judy Garland in Concert, Babes on Broadway. Separate folder titled Babes on Broadway with one page from TV Guide, program circled. Handwritten notes in folder: Unfortunately I left out a whole sequence - 1) w/hoedown 2) & comments by host = 7th film by Rooney & Garland. He won award but she more money. He $1200 per week, She $2000 per week. They good friends. She wrote fiction on set while he socialized w/rest of actors & crew.
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Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hot_Wax):
American Hot Wax is a 1978 biopic film directed by Floyd Mutrux and written by John Kaye, telling the story of pioneering disc jockey Alan Freed, who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock and roll in the 1950s. Freed is often credited with coining the term "Rock 'n' Roll." The film starred Tim McIntire as Freed, Fran Drescher as Freed's feisty secretary, Laraine Newman as a young aspiring songwriter (based on Carole King), Melanie Chartoff as a young singer, Jeff Altman as a sleazy record promoter who is told off by everybody he approaches, Jay Leno as Freed's mischievous limousine driver, Moosie Drier in a warmly reviewed performance as the head of a Buddy Holly fan club with at least 5,000 members, and a bit part by a 21 year-old Cameron Crowe. It also featured performances by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Ford, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and the Brooklyn Dreams as "Professor La Plano and The Planotones". The film was not a box-office success.
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A Damsel in Distress (motion picture) - Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine (performers) (1937) (trailer)
Subject
Single women -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Upper class -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Household employees -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Household employees.
URL
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Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Damsel_in_Distress_(1937_film)) :
A Damsel in Distress is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. Loosely based upon the P.G. Wodehouse 1919 novel of the same name, and the 1928 stage play written by Wodehouse and Ian Hay, it has music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, and was directed by George Stevens, the second (and last) Astaire musical directed by Stevens; the first was Swing Time.
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Creator
George Stevens (director)
Pandro S. Berman (producer)
Fred Astaire (performers)
George Burns (performers)
Gracie Allen (performers)
Joan Fontaine (performers)