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The Band Wagon is a 1953 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli, ... The movie's dances and musical numbers were staged by Michael Kidd.
The Band Wagon is a musical revue with book by George S. Kaufman and Howard Dietz, lyrics also by Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz. It first played on Broadway in 1931, running for 260 performances. It introduced the song "Dancing in the Dark" and inspired two films. [1]
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.
Cyd Charisse was born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas, the daughter of Lela (née Norwood) and Ernest Enos Finklea Sr., who was a jeweler. [4] Her nickname "Sid" was taken from her older brother Ernest E. Finklea Jr., who as a child pronounced it like that when he’d say "Sis". [5]
#11. Little Shop of Horrors (1986) - Stacker score: 88.4 - Metascore: 81 - IMDb user rating: 7.1. Based on a B-movie of the same name from 1960, the "Little Shop of Horrors" musical premiered off ...
The title of the film derives from the anthemic song "That's Entertainment!", by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, introduced in the 1953 MGM musical The Band Wagon. The film title is usually expressed with an exclamation mark, but in some contexts, the punctuation is dropped, as in the movie poster.
And on March 22, 2024, Variety reported that insiders said the movie will be “mostly a jukebox musical,” with at least 15 covers of “very well-known” songs. One tune is said to be “That ...