It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Les Girls – Musical #80 read more
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Jul 18, 2018
Classic Hollywood musicals usually have a very common framework that they rarely seem to deviate from. There’s almost an accepted unwritten rule that they will function like so. Typically, there is an overarching story being told and yet the narrative is conveniently broken up by song and read more
Les Girls (1957) was Gene Kelly’s last contracted MGM musical. It’s a curious film, modern in some respects, old-fashioned in others. In this Rashomon-like story of a successful dancer, and his various entanglements with the trio of women who form his troop, elation and tedium rest side- read more
Les Girls is such a unique musical, I’m surprised there isn’t
more out there about it. For Gene Kelly, it was his last starring musical for
MGM and it was his only teaming with the wonderful director George Cukor. Cole
Porter’s last film score increases its pedigree, as well as the read more
They’re the most vivacious…vexacious…flirtatious personalities in gay Paree! shouts the films tagline and it’s no exaggeration. Kay Kendall, Mitzi Gaynor, and Taina Elg are Les Girls in this delightfully dark musical comedy about truth. “What is Truth?” the film keeps asking, read more
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The year is 1957. Major movie studios are feeling pressure to get people back into the theaters and away from their television sets. Cinemas were losing business and subsequently closing read more
The year is 1957. Major movie studios are feeling pressure to get people back into the theaters and away from their television sets. Cinemas were losing business and subsequently closing locations. International moviemakers, who had fewer restrictions in showing sex and other themes in the films tha read more
