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The
Band Wagon
Release date 7th August 1953
Country : USA
Running time : 111 mins
Genre : Musical
Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant
Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
DVD
available from Warner Home Video :Release date 7th August 1953
Country : USA
Running time : 111 mins
Genre : Musical
Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant
Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Tony Hunter makes a
broadway comeback in a Jeffrey Cordova show with ballerina Gabrielle
Girard. The show turns out to be flop but the company stays together.
Superb musical with high production values
; it sums up the putting on a show genre and playfully parodies life
behind the scenes on a Broadway show. Astaire is at his graceful
best in the dances including such unforgettable routines as A
Shine on Your Shoes and Dancing In The Dark.
Songs by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz
include "By Myself," "A Shine On Your Shoes", "That's Entertainment," "Dancing
In The Dark," "You and the Night and the Music," "New Sun In The Sky," "I
Guess I'll Have Too Change My Plan," and "I Love Louisa."
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Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
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