What's on TCM? SOME decent music + dance:
10:30 PM -- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
1h 43m | Comedy | TV-G
The seven Pontipee brothers ease the loneliness of their Oregon farm by courting seven women.
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Jeff Richards
Winner of an Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture -- Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin
Nominee for Oscars for Best Writing, Screenplay -- Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley, Best Cinematography, Color -- George J. Folsey, Best Film Editing -- Ralph E. Winters, and Best Picture
Despite the extra work that shooting two different versions created, the cast had a marvelous time and Stanley Donen embraced the challenge of CinemaScope. He thought that with seven brides and seven brothers, the story lent itself perfectly to the medium since so many characters often had to be onscreen at the same time. He utilized every inch of the frame to maximize the visual impact of the new technology. The studio, being extremely tight with the budget, wound up having to put more money into the production anyway, despite trying to cut every corner, because not enough theaters were equipped with CinemaScope screens, which entailed shooting the film twice, once for a less extreme widescreen version. "I had to shoot and cut everything twice, re-stage scenes, put in a different set of marks, light it differently, loop it," said Donen. "We had two cutting rooms going, and it cost the studio another $500,000, which was a lot for then."
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