mardi 25 mars 2008

Guys And Dolls



Goldwyn / MGM, 1955, Color, 150 minutes

Produced by: Samuel Goldwyn
Written for the Screen and Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Assistant Director: Arthur S. Black, Jr.
Music and Lyrics by: Frank Loesser
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Jay Blackton
Orchestrations: Skip Martin, Nelson Riddle, Alexander Courage, Al Sendrey
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by: Michael Kidd
Set Decoration by: Howard Bristol
Costumes Designed by: Irene Sharaff

Filmed in CinemaScope

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Color Cinematography, Best Score (Musical), Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color), Best Costume Design

Cast:
Marlon Brando (Sky Masterson),
Jean Simmons (Sarah Brown),
Frank Sinatra (Nathan Detroit),
Vivian Blaine (Miss Adelaide),
Robert Keith (Lt. Brannigan)



























1 Titles and Opening Sequence
2 Follow The Fold (1)
3 The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York
4 I'll Know
5 Pet Me, Poppa
6 Adelaide's Lament
7 Follow The Fold (2)
8 Guys And Dolls
9 Adelaide
10 If I Were A Bell
11 A Woman In Love
12 Take Back Your Mink
13 Luck Be A Lady - Dance Sequence
14 Luck Be A Lady
15 Sue Me
16 Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat
17 Guys And Dolls - Sequence
18 Finale and End Titles


I'm very grateful to Quinlan and all the people from Franklynot. Thanks a lot for sharing all this beautiful music.


lundi 17 mars 2008

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers


MGM, 1954, Color, 102 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Assistant Director: Ridgeway Callow
Screen Play by: Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley
Musical Direction: Adolph Deutsch
Musical Supervision: Saul Chaplin
Lyrics by: Johnny Mercer
Music by: Gene DePaul
Orchestrations: Alexander Courage, Conrad Salinger and Leo Arnaud
Dances and Musical Numbers Staged by: Michael Kidd
Set Decorations: Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt
Costumes Designed by: Walter Plunkett

Filmed in CinemaScope, Color by Ansco

Awards:
Academy Award for Best Score, Musical
Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture, Best Screenplay , Best Color Cinematography and Best Film Editing

Cast:
Howard Keel (Adam Pontipee),
Jane Powell (Milly),
Jeff Richards (Benjamin Pontipee),
Russ Tamblyn (Gideon Pontipee),
Nancy Kilgas (Alice),
Tommy Rall (Frank Pontipee),
Betty Carr (Sarah),
Marc Platt (Daniel Pontipee),
Virginia Gibson (Liza),
Matt Mattox (Caleb Pontipee),
Jacques d'Amboise (Ephraim Pontipee)









1 Main Title
2 Bless Yore Beautiful Hide
3 Do Unto Udders
4 Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Reprise)
5 Wonderful, Wonderful Day
6 Adam In Treetop
7 When You're In Love
8 Goin' Co'tin'
9 Barn Dance
10 Barn Raising
11 When You're In Love (Reprise)
12 Brotherly Advice / Lonesome Winter
13 Lament (Lonesome Polecat)
14 Lovesick
15 Sobbin' Women
16 Kidnapped And Chase
17 June Bride
18 June Bride (Reprise)
19 Spring, Spring, Spring
20 When You're In Love (Reprise, Outtake)
21 End Title
22 Bless Yore Beautiful Hide (Rehearsal recording)
23 Goin' Co'tin' (Demo recording)
24 Queen Of The May (Outtake, Demo recording)
25 When You're In Love (Demo recording)
26 Spring, Spring, Spring (Demo recording)
27 Sobbin' Women (Demo recording)

Kiss Me Kate



MGM, 1953, Color, 110 minutes

Produced by: Jack Cummings
Directed by: George Sidney
Assistant Director: George Rhein
Screen Play by: Dorothy Kingsley
Music and Lyrics by: Cole Porter
Musical Direction: André Previn and Saul Chaplin
Orchestrations: Conrad Salinger and Skip Martin
Choreography by: Hermes Pan
Costumes Designed by: Walter Plunkett

Cast:
Kathryn Grayson (Lilli Vanessi / Katherine),
Howard Keel (Fred Graham / Petruchio),
Ann Miller (Lois Lane / Bianca),
Tommy Rall (Bill Calhoun / Lucentio),
Bobby Van (Gremio),
Keenan Wynn (Lippy),
James Whitmore (Slug),
Kurt Kasznar (Baptista),
Bob Fosse (Hortensio)



















01 - Overture Medley: Always True To You In My Fashion / Why Can't You Behave? / Another Openin', Another Show / So In Love (Includes Alternate Main Title) (Outtake)
02 - Main Title (So In Love / Wunderbar)
03 - So In Love
04 - Too Darn Hot
05 - Why Can't You Behave?
06 - Electric Sign (Another Openin', Another Show)
07 - Lilli's Cork
08 - Wunderbar
09 - So In Love (Reprise)
10 - We Open In Venice (Extended Version)
11 - Tom, Dick Or Harry
12 - I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua
13 - I Hate Men
14 - Were Thine That Special Face
15 - Finale Act One (Kiss Me Kate)
16 - And So To Wed (We Open In Venice / I Hate Men)
17 - I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua (Reprise)
18 - Where Is The Life That Late I Led?
19 - Bianca
20 - Why Can't You Behave?
21 - Were Thine That Special Face
22 - Always True To You In My Fashion
23 - Brush Up Your Shakespeare
24 - Bianca's Wedding (We Open In Venice)
25 - From This Moment On
26 - Down On Kate (Includes So In Love)
27 - Kiss Me Kate (Finale, Act 2)

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Gypsy



Warner Bros., 1962, Color, 149 minutes

Produced and Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Assistant Director: Gil Kissel
Screenplay: Leonard Spielgass
Music by: Jule Styne
Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim
Music Supervised and Conducted by: Frank Perkins
Orchestrations: Frank Perkins, Carl Brandt
Choreography by: Robert Tucker
Costumes Designed by: Orry-Kelly

Filmed in Technirama and Technicolor

Cast:
Rosalind Russell (Rose),
Natalie Wood (Louise "Gypsy"),
Karl Malden (Herbie Sommers),
Suzanne Cupito ("Baby" June),
Ann Jillian ("Dainty" June),
Diane Pace ("Baby" Louise)











1 Overture
2 Small World
3 Some People
4 Baby June and Her Newsboys
5 Mr. Goldstone, I Love You
6 Little Lamb
7 You'll Never Get Away From Me
8 Dainty June
9 If Mama Was Married
10 All I Need Is the Girl
11 Everything's Coming Up Roses
12 Together Wherever We Go
13 You Gotta Have a Gimmick
14 Let Me Entertain You
15 Rose's Turn
16 Finale
17 Some People (Rosalind Russell Outtake)
18 Small World (Rosalind Russell Outtake)
19 You'll Never Get Away From Me (Rosalind Russell Outtake)
20 Everything's Coming Up Roses (Rosalind Russell Outtake)
21 You'll Never Get Away From Me (Extended Version)
22 Together Wherever We Go (Extended, Alternate Version)






jeudi 13 mars 2008

Funny Face



Paramount, 1957, Color, 103 minutes

Produced by: Roger Edens
Directed by: Stanley Donen
Music and Lyrics by: George and Ira Gershwin
Music Adapted and Conducted by: Adolph Deutsch
Orchestral Arrangements by: Conrad Salinger, Van Cleave, Alexander Courage, Skip Martin
Additional Music and Lyrics by: Roger Edens and Leonard Gershe
Choreography by: Eugene Loring and Fred Astaire
Songs Staged by: Stanley Donen
Set Decoration: Sam Comer and Ray Moyer
Costumes: Edith Head
Miss Hepburn's Paris Wardrobe: Hubert de Givenchy

Filmed in VistaVision, Color by Technicolor

Cast:
Audrey Hepburn (Jo Stockton),
Fred Astaire (Dick Avery),
Kay Thompson (Maggie Prescott),
Michel Auclair (Prof. Emile Flostre),
Robert Flemyng (Paul Duval)
















1 Overture - Funny Face - 'S Wonderful - Think Pink
2 How Long Has This Been Going On
3 How Long Has This Been Going On (Instrumental Reprise)
4 Funny Face
5 Bonjour, Paris
6 Clap Yo Hands
7 He Loves And She Loves
8 Bonjour, Paris (Instrumental Reprise)
9 On How To Be Lovely
10 Basal Metabolism
11 Let's Kiss And Make Up
12 'S Wonderful


Mary Poppins



Disney, 1964, Color, 139 minutes

Producer: Walt Disney
Co-Producer: Bill Walsh
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Assistant Directors: Joseph L. McEveety, Paul Feiner
Screenplay by: Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
Music and Lyrics by: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Music Supervised, Arranged and Conducted by: Irwin Kostal
Choreography by : Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood
Set Decorators: Emile Kuri, Hal Gausman
Costumes and Design Consultant: Tony Walton
Costumes Executed by: Bill Thomas

Filmed in Technicolor

Awards:
Winner of 5 Academy Awards: Best Actress (Julie Andrews), Best Song ("Chim Chim Cheree"), Best Original Score (Sherman Bros.), Best Film Editing (Cotton Warburton) and Best Visual Effects (Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett, Hamilton Luske)

Cast:
Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins),
Dick Van Dyke (Bert),
David Tomlinson (Mr. Banks),
Glynis Johns (Mrs. Banks),
Hermione Baddeley, Reta Shaw (The Domestics),
Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber (The Children)














Jailhouse Rock


MGM, 1957, Black and White, 96 minutes

Produced by: Pandro S. Berman
Associate Producer: Kathryn Hereford
Directed by: Richard Thorpe
Assistant Director: Robert E. Relyea
Screen Play by: Guy Trosper
Technical Advisor: Colonel Tom Parker
Music Supervised by: Jeff Alexander
Songs Mostly by:: Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber
Choreography: Alex Romero, Elvis Presley
Set Decorations: Henry Grace, Keogh Gleason

Filmed in CinemaScope

Cast:
Elvis Presley (Vince Everett),
Judy Tyler (Peggy Van Alden),
Mickey Shaughnessy (Hunk Houghton),
Vaughn Taylor (Mr. Shores)

mercredi 12 mars 2008

You Were Never Lovelier



Columbia, 1942, Black and White, 97 minutes

Produced by: Louis F. Edelman
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Assistant Director: Norman Deming
Screen Play by: Michael Fessier & Ernest Pagano and Delmer Daves
Music by: Jerome Kern
Lyrics by: Johnny Mercer
Musical Director: Leigh Harline
Musical Arrangements by: Conrad Salinger
Dance Director: Val Raset
Interior Decorator: Frank Tuttle
Gowns by: Irene

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Score - Musical (Leigh Harline), Best Song ("Dearly Beloved") and Best Sound Recording

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Robert Davis),
Rita Hayworth (Maria Acuna),
Adolphe Menjou (Edwardo Acuna),
Leslie Brooks (Cecy Acuna)









You'll Never Get Rich



Columbia, 1941, B/W, 88 minutes

Produced by: Samuel Bischoff
Directed by: Sidney Lanfield
Assistant Director: Gene Anderson
Original Screen Play by: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano
Songs by: Cole Porter
Musical Director: M. W. Stoloff
Assistant: Paul Mertz Dances Staged by: Robert Alton
Costume Design: Robert Kalloch

Awards:
Academy Award nominations for Best Score and Best Song ("Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye")

Cast:
Fred Astaire (Robert Curtis),
Rita Hayworth (Sheila Winthrop),
John Hubbard (Tom Barton),
Robert Benchley (Martin Cortland),
Osa Massen (Sonya)









1 You'll Never Get Rich Titles
2 Boogie Barcarolle
3 Dream Dancing
4 Shootin' the Works for Uncle Sam
5 Since I Kissed My Baby Goodbye
6 A-Stairable Rag
7 So Near and Yet So Far
8 The Wedding Cake Walk
9 End

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