The 1950s was a golden age for the movie musical — with studios like MGM and Warner Bros churning out classics like Singin’ in the Rain and the second version of A Star is Born. These musicals had us ...
LOS ANGELES — Betty Hutton, the actress and singer who brought a brassy vitality to Hollywood musicals such as “Annie Get Your Gun,” has died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 86. The death was ...
The New York Yankees - you love them or you hate them. Douglass Wallop is one of the latter. He's the writer whose 1954 story about dreams of beating the Yankees became a beloved American musical.
In the 1940s and 1950s, musicals about World War II tended to be peppy shows about soldiers and sailors on leave, acting carefree for a few days and leaving the war behind. Nowadays, we know that such ...
UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS #1: (As characters, singing) We've got heart, miles and miles and miles of heart. SIMON: "Damn Yankees" is a fantasy about making a deal with the devil to win the pennant against ...