ATTENTION! 8:00 tonight, KISS ME KATE (1953)

[elleng]

A great show, with a great cast. We had the album when I was growing up.

Feuding co-stars reunite for a musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." Dir: George Sidney Cast: Kathryn Grayson , Howard Keel , Ann Miller . C-110 mins.

TCM

[Binkie The Clown]

1. Great movie. Watched it last week from my DVD collection of great musicals. n/t

[LisaM]

2. I love this movie and the whole cast, but in my opinion, Ann Miller

absolutely shines, and steals every single scene she is in. She's good in a lot of things, but in this, the part just seems written for her.

[elleng]

13. She's FABULOUS!

[Siwsan]

3. A wonderful movie with choreography by Hermes Pan

I was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Pan, when I took a transatlantic cruise. He was one of the guest speakers and I ran into him in one of the lounges. He was sitting all alone, at the bar, so my friend and I introduced ourselves. He could not have been more warm and friendly. We spent the next couple of hours listening to wonderful stories about old Hollywood.

He did a lot of work with Fred Astaire.


Fred and Hermes:
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[LisaM]

7. How great!

What a wonderful thing to happen. And it's even better that he was nice.

[pressbox69]

14. I remember catching

the middle of a Dick Cavett interview with him and thinking is this guy Fred Astaire's brother?

[vlyons]

4. Brush UP Your Shakespeare

[elleng]

5. THANKS!

I'm DEFINITELY in the mood now!

[CTyankee]

9. Back atacha with more Cole Porter

[elleng]

10. THANKS, yank!

Any Tom, Dick or Harry!!!

[elleng]

12. Playing NOW!

[Paladin]

6. One of my favorites.

In the big 3 guys/3 gals dance number late in the show, the guy in the yellow cap is a young Bob Fosse.

[liberalmuse]

8. I might have to finally hook up my cable box.

I love this story and any version of it from Shakespeare's play to "10 things I hate about you".

[elleng]

11. Here it is!

[pressbox69]

15. I think

it was filmed in 3D and it shows during Miller's dance number.

[elleng]

16. You got it!

'KISS ME KATE is almost, but not quite, a classic cinematic version of the hit Broadway musical. Filmed in 3-D, it was largely released "flat" when the 3-D craze began to wane. Boasting an intelligent and highly amusing book, this tunefest features paralle'

http://www.tvguide.com/movies/kiss-me-kate/103315/

[pressbox69]

17. The

Broadway version from 2000.

[Aristus]

18. My mother played Lili Vanessi in a local production of 'KMK' back in the 80's.

One of her castmates was Bill Brochtrup, who later went on to appear on NCIS.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110514/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

I went to school with his sister. She was very pretty. But not a pleasant person.

[elleng]

19. Very cool, Aristus,

about your mother, that is.