Musicals on the Silver Screen by Leonard Kniffel

Author:Leonard Kniffel [Kniffel, Leonard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Musical films—United States—History and criticism
ISBN: 9781937589523
Publisher: Huron Street Press
Published: 2013-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

JAILHOUSE ROCK (1957)

Even if you cannot bear to watch this movie all the way through, you must see Elvis “the Pelvis” Presley gyrate his hips through the title song.

THE JOKER IS WILD (1957)

Frank Sinatra plays a comedian and singer in trouble with the mob in this biopic based on the life of Joe E. Lewis. Sinatra gets to sing the wonderful “All the Way.”

LES GIRLS (1957)

This was Gene Kelly’s last musical for MGM studios. He partnered with a trio of leading ladies—Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg—and fittingly ended his contract with a Cole Porter film score (also his last), as he had begun it, and in Paris, which he loved—although the tunes tend to be some of his less familiar, including the title song, “Ça c’est l’amour,” “Ladies in Waiting,” “You’re Just Too, Too!” “Why Am I So Gone about That Gal?” “The Rope Song,” and “Be a Clown” (which he sang with Judy Garland in The Pirate). The story line is complicated by the fact that it’s told over and over again from all the major players’ points of view. Kelly is just old enough and accomplished enough for his womanizing to seem less than charming and his modernist dance numbers less than great. Still, it’s pretty to look at, and it’s Gene Kelly after all avec les beautiful girls.

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