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The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway show will revive his career.
Leroy Daniels was a shoeshine man who sang and danced as he worked, and whose act led to an appearance with Fred Astaire in the 1953 musical The Band Wagon. [1] It was the only time that Astaire danced on-screen with a black dancer. [2] Daniels' act also served as inspiration for the choreography of the scene in the film. [3]
The 11th Golden Globe Awards also honored the best films of 1953. There was no award for Best Picture in either the Musical or Comedy categories. Spencer Tracy won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a drama film for The Actress, while David Niven won Best Actor in the Musical or Comedy genre for The Moon Is Blue.
Her films included Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon (1954), and Silk Stockings (1957). She stopped dancing in films in the late 1950s, but continued acting in film and television, and in 1991 made her Broadway debut. [ 3 ]
The song was published in 1952 and was written especially for the 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film The Band Wagon. The song is performed in the film by Jack Buchanan supported by Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, and Oscar Levant. In 2004, the song finished at number 45 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. [2]
The original soundtrack to the 1953 film The Band Wagon was released by MGM Records in the same year in three formats: as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm shellac records, a set of two 45-rpm EPs, and as a 12-inch 33-rpm LP record.
While the movie will still take place in the fictional Gotham City, inspired by New York, most of filming was actually done in Los Angeles this time around because of a $12.6 million tax break to ...
According to Steven Suskin, "very few people are around who saw The Band Wagon, but they all seem to insist that it was the finest Broadway revue ever." [2] According to Furia and Lasser, The Band Wagon is "arguably the greatest of the 'little' revues of the 1930s". [3] Ken Bloom states that The Band Wagon "is considered the greatest of all ...