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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner 1918-86, American lyricist and librettist, b. New York City. After two years as a radio scriptwriter, Lerner began an association with the composer Frederick Loewe that resulted in several popular musicals, including Brigadoon (1947, film 1954), Paint Your Wagon (1951, film 1969... Read more
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray , 1921-92, Indian film director, b. Calcutta (now Kolkata). His subtle, austere, and delicately lyrical films made him one of the outstanding filmmakers of the 20th cent.; he was the first Indian director to win international acclaim. During his formative years he was profoundly influen... Read more
Laurel and Hardy
Laurel and Hardy American film comedy team. The duo consisted of Stan Laurel, 1890-1965, b. Ulverson, England, whose real name was Arthur Stanley Jefferson; and Oliver Hardy, 1892-1957, b. Atlanta, Ga. The thin Laurel and rotund Hardy had occasionally appeared in films together before being purpose... Read more
James Cagney
James Cagney 1899-1986, American movie actor, b. New York City. He worked on Broadway as an actor and dancer before appearing in films. He is best remembered as a brash, sadistic, tough guy in such movies as Public Enemy (1931) and The Roaring Twenties (1939). He displayed equal vigor in sympat... Read more
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford 1908-77, American movie star, b. San Antonio, Tex., as Lucille le Sueur. After working as a Broadway chorus dancer, Crawford began making films in 1926, eventually moving from musicals to drama. In 1945, she won an Academy Award for her performance in Mildred Pierce. Her best-known ... Read more
Madonna
Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone) , 1958-, American pop singer and actress, b. Bay City, Mich. She trained as a dancer at the Univ. of Michigan before moving to New York City to begin her music and dance career. Her albums Madonna (1983) and Like a Virgin (1984) secured her position as a sexual... Read more
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly 1912-96, American dancer, choreographer, movie actor, and director, b. Pittsburgh. Kelly started dancing on Broadway in 1938 and first gained fame in the title role of the Broadway musical Pal Joey (1940). He moved to Hollywood in 1941 and soon starred in his first film, For Me and My... Read more
Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman 1908-84, American musical comedy star, b. Astoria, N.Y., originally named Ethel Zimmerman. Merman's theater debut was in George and Ira Gershwin 's Girl Crazy (1930). Noted for her brassy, booming voice, she appeared on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam (also the fil... Read more
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire , 1899-1987, American dancer, actor, and singer, b. Omaha, Nebr., as Frederick Austerlitz. After 1911 he and his sister Adele formed a successful Broadway vaudeville team. After his sister retired, Astaire became a film actor (1933). He became known as a debonair song-and-dance man, par... Read more
Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks (Howard Winchester Hawks), 1896-1977, American film director, b. Goshen, Ind. Although not as well known as such contemporaries as John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock , he has been critically acclaimed as one of the 20th cent.'s best motion picture directors. His directorial career began... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Musical film"

musicals
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1960s the "rock musical" came into prominence...The popularity of musicals has created a new...music tent." The musical film has enjoyed popularity...comedies, the operetta films of Jeanette MacDonald...filmed biographies of musical celebrities and film figures. ...
Musical Theater
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...1920s the heyday of the musical as pure, melodic fun...the 1930s and sound films ended that heyday...Show Boat (1927), musicals during and after World...glorious era of American musicals that lasted until the...x2013;), whose musicals, marked by complex...venerable tradition of ...
musical
Book article from: World Encyclopedia musical Genre of popular dramatic...burlesque. The most popular musicals originated in the USA with...Opera (1986). Successful film musicals, such as West Side Story...originals. Original film musicals include Forty-Second Street...
Film
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...had many well-established film centers creating both entertainment films — especially musicals, such as Chahine's popular...Station and others produced by Film Farsi in Iran — and more artistic, sociopolitical films highly influenced by the work...
adaptation, stage, film, and TV
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Beerbohm Tree made a short film of King John , and in 1900...fidelity, but for the best film-makers were less vehicles...polished piece of Hollywood film-making within the constraints...the cinema. Long-running musicals were based on the films Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy...
Fred Astaire
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...in 1917 they moved to the musical stage where they appeared...successful, particularly two musical comedies with songs by George...role in Gay Divorce, a "musical play" with songs by Cole...pattern of most of his film musicals: it was a light, perky...Gay Divorcee (1934), a film ...
Burman, Rahul Dev
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Indian movie stars in films filled music, became...however, were his film scores themselves. No musical genre anywhere in the...music director for a 1959 film called Raaz , but the film was shelved before shooting...more of his father's films in the early 1960s and...Indian ...
Astaire, Fred
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...England, including the musical comedies Lady, Be Good...featured role in the musical Gay Divorce. This show...of most of his film musicals: it was a light comedy...Divorcee (1934), a film version of Gay Divorce...hit. With seven more films in the 1930s (the most...MGM). Nine more ...
Henry Mancini
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...River was almost cut out of the film during production. Contributed to Musical Trends Mancini's contribution to film music occurred during a time when changes were shaping the film industry and American culture...had served as the backdrop for films. Mancini contributed to this...
Alan Menken
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...for all of their animated films as well as some live action...violin in high school. His musical tastes were broad in scope...Menken decided to pursue a musical career. Following graduation...attended the Lehman Engel Musical Workshop of Broadcast Music...showcased a number of Menken's ...

Dictionary entries related to "Musical film"

On the Town
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Scoring of a Musical Picture, 1949...Book of Hollywood Musicals, New York, 1953...Pictorial History of Film Musicals, New York, 1970...Clifford McCarty, The Films of Frank Sinatra...Edward, The Movie Musical, New York, 1974...The American Film Musical, London, ...
42nd Street
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1961. Durgnat, Raymond, in Films and Filming (London), January...The Great Busby," in Film (London), Spring 1966...The Three Ages of the Musical," in Films and Filming (London), June...Some Thoughts About Early Film Musicals," in Journal of Popular...
Top Hat
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Two Feet in the Air," in Films and Filming (London), December...Grieves, Jefferson, in Films and Filming (London), October...Homer, "Ginger Rogers," in Films in Review (New York), March...in Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Spring 1981. Medhurst, Andy, "The Musical," in The Cinema Book, ...
An American in Paris
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Edward, The Movie Musical, New York, 1974...Johnson, A., "The Films of Vincente Minnelli," in Film Quarterly (Berkeley...the history of film, is also one of the few Technicolor musicals to be taken seriously...when many such films were made. Its...on the fact that films did ...
Donen, Stanley
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...October 1958. "Musical Comedy Issue" of...in New York Film Bulletin, no...Donen at Work," in Films in Review (New...Stanley Donen," in Film Dope (London...the Kelly-Donen Musicals," in Film Criticism...verschieben," in Film-Dienst (Cologne...Stanley Donen," in Films in ...
Singin' in the Rain
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Griffith, Richard, The Films of Gene Kelly, New...Pictorial History of Film Musicals, New York, 1970...Lee Edward, The Movie Musical, New York, 1974...Hollywood's Greatest Musicals, New York, 1975...Choreography in the Films of Stanley Donen and...editor, Genre: The Musical, ...
Meet Me in St. Louis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Blue Book of Hollywood Musicals, Watkins Glen, New...Epstein, Judy: The Films and Career of Judy Garland...Astor, Mary, A Life on Film, New York, 1971...Lee Edward, The Movie Musical, New York, 1974. Baxter, Brian, The Films of Judy Garland, London...Vincente Minnelli and Musical ...
The Band Wagon
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...of Vincente Minnelli," in Film Quarterly (Berkeley), Winter...2 Feet in the Air," in Films and Filming (London), no...The Rise and Fall of the Musical," in Films and Filming (London), January...Band Wagon," in Reid's Film Index (New South Wales...most important of the MGM musicals of ...
Menken, Alan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...selection that brought the film alive and carried the...integral part of the film's success, returning...to the forefront of musical films at a time when the genre...innermost thoughts. Other films had simply treated characters...audiences had proved wary of musicals, unwilling or ...
Comden, Betty, and Adolph Green
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...wrote first Broadway musical, On the Town (later musicals include Billion...x2014;first film as writers, Good...Ringing, 1960. Films as Writers and Lyricists...Lee Thompson) Films as Actress: Comden...article— Film Comment (New York...part 1)," in Films in Review ...

Thesaurus entries related to "Musical film"

inspire
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...animate, fire, excite, spark, inspirit, incentivize, affect. See note at encourage.   2. the film inspired a musical synonyms : give rise to, lead to, bring about, cause, prompt, spawn, engender; literary beget.  ...

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`Story' of musical films made behind the Iron Curtain.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/5/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...attraction at the American Film Institute Theater, lives...around selected highlights from musicals shot behind the Iron Curtain...to begin with: a mere 40 musicals over the course of almost...point of this fitful, scorned musical-comedy tradition. Attempting...the filmmakers contrived a ...
Travolta returning to musical films with 'Hairspray'
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/7/2006; 257 words ; ...Grease." Then Travolta put musical roles aside. Until now...in "Hairspray," a coming film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical based on John Waters' 1988...shepherding Travolta's return to musicals was "a dream come true...produced the Oscar-winning musical "Chicago." "Hairspray...
Movie magic is a de-light for theatre-goers ; Six classic musical films are likely to attract a whole new set of patrons into Scunthorpe's theatre, starting this month.
Newspaper article from: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph; 9/6/2008; 533 words ; Six classic musical films are likely to attract...show a selection of old film favourites, art lovers...screening of a classic musical, with the option of...diversifying into other film genres. "It's all...use the Plowright for films as a one-off programme...
Celebration of classic musical films
Newspaper article from: Evening Post (Bristol UK); 10/31/2009; 341 words ; THE classic Hollywood musicals of the film studio Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer...An American in Paris.Short films will also be shown on the cinema...Metro- Goldwyn Mayer. The film shorts will be shown on the...Gershwin. Tickets for the film, which will be screened at...
High school musical films sensational: It's entertaining, though not in widescreen.
Newspaper article from: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH); 5/20/2006; 700+ words ; ...DVD pick of the week: The High School Musical phenomenon continues with the High School Musical: Encore Edition DVD (Disney, one disc...4 million viewers. It's a sweet little film, with catchy songs, entertaining dances...
Musical film on Israeli-Palestinian conflict wins Academy Award
Newspaper article from: The Arab American News; 3/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...University of Southern California film student Ari Sandel set out to make a musical comedy about the Israeli...routines. The storyline and musical numbers pay deliberate homage...Side Story, a 1957 Broadway musical, which became a film in 1961...
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron Signed to Produce New Line Cinema's Musical Film Version of 'Hairspray'; Executive Producers of Oscar and Golden Globe Winning Best Picture 'Chicago' to Take on Adaptation of Hit Broadway Production.
PR Newswire; 11/29/2004; 700+ words ; ...of making a Hollywood musical. Their track record in film and television speaks...s first feature as a film producer was the Oscar...the upcoming feature films "American Darlings...the Year, is the first musical to win the Academy Award...the history of Miramax Films. About New Line ...
The Hatchery to Produce New Musical Film Version of Classic Holiday Tale ``Scrooge'' for CBS.
Business Wire; 1/20/2004; 700+ words ; ...of the Oscar-nominated film musical adaptation of the holiday classic...nominations. Among his other musical film credits: "Goodbye Mr. Chips...the upcoming family feature film "Benji Returns: Rags to Riches...Night Vision" and the tele-film "John Carpenter's Body ...
THERE WILL BE BLOOD FESTIVAL SLASHER STAGE SHOW TAKES ON MESSY NEW LIFE AS MUSICAL FILM WITH HIGH HOPES.(A&E)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 1/27/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...a 45-minute feature film with 11 original songs. The result, Massacre (The Musical), will make its premiere...especially since the show and film's star, Kiopes, has...minute Madison-based film Massacre (The Musical). She is followed by...
YOUR MOVIES: HIGH SWEET MUSICAL; FILM of the week Zac and Co hit just the right spot.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 10/19/2008; 700+ words ; ...entertainment. HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3: SENIOR YEAR U, 111mins...that age. The first two TV films were only shown on the Disney...simple - an old-fashioned musical comedy for teens... sort...In the world of High School Musical there may be some hand-holding...go. The real heart of the film is ...