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Mr Prof.--The Premiere of "That's Entertainment" was the only time I ever saw them together in later years except for the wonderful little dance they performed at the Oscars in 1970 when John Wayne won.

Eleanor Powell had a fantastic comeback in 1959 at The Latin Quarter in New York City. From that she went to Las Vegas and TV appearances. She actually took off 20 pounds and toured the world. The fact that she never became a big movie star again had more to do with the loss of interest in tap. Fred Astaire made his last dance movie in 1957 and there was no tapdancing in it. Kelly's last big musical was 1957. People were doing modern dance, jazz and rock. Nobody really wanted tap anymore. Her success in nightclubs and on TV variety constitutes the only comback any tap dancer could have had--no matter how great--at that time. We were well into the 1970's, when tap made a world-wide comback starting with Ruby Keeler on Broadway in "No, No Nanette"--followed by the successes of Tommy Tune and "42nd Street".

Fi--I'm in a good mood--so I'll do it for you Crawford--"Dancing Lady", "Forsaking all Others, "Strange Cargo & "Love On the Run Harlow--"China Seas", "Red Dusk, "Saratoga" "Hold on to Your Man" Loy--"Too Hot to Handle", "Wife Vs. Secretary", "Test Pilot" & "Manhattan Melodrama Turner--"Betrayed", "Homecoming", "**** Tonk", "Somewhere I'll find You" Shearer--"A Free Soul", "Strange Interlude", "Idiot's Delight Gardner--"Mogambo", "Lone Star, "The Huskers" Colbert--"It Happened one Night" & "Boom Town" Marion Davies--"Polly of the Circus" & Cain & Mabel" Loretta Young--"Call of the Wild & "Key to the City" Hedy Lamarr--"Comrade X & "Boom Town" Doris Day--"Teacher's Pet" Greta Garbo--Susan Lennox Marilyn Monroe--The Misfits Carole Lombard--"No Man of Her own" Came up short on 3's-- Fi's turn (Garson--"Adventure"

No work at all it's Gable--just get it off the top of her hat if you know what I Mean--

Both films were filmed on location.

My dear boy--I want the movie with the stars please.

Some people are Waiting for Godot--But we're waiting for Mr. 6

"To something in the air Accustomed to her Face." Miss Lavenderblue 19 take it away!

Miles--just for you-- What is? "A Heart is not a thing to build a wall about" Singer & Movie please

I liked this question very much-- Give me 2/4-3-2-1 on Gable 2 female co-stars-- ( I do mean stars on 4 Gable pix) 2 female co-stars on 3 " on 2 " on 1 This is Fun!

Prof. Henry Higgins does not accept slang as a viable mode of the English language. The song is Higgins' greatest soliloquy in "My Fair Lady" and famously, the only Higgins song sung by all the greats--From Andy Williams--on down.

Mr. 6--you're my man of the week Mr. 6 is up--

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Fi--it's kinda an obscure movie now, if that's any consolation.

Metz "You (almost) Did It!" Rex and "My Fair Lady" are correct--

It was their first "Love" Dance-- "Night & Day" by Cole Porter in *Gay Divorcee*. "Night & Day" had been a number #1 song while Astaire performed it on Broadway in "Gay Divorce". He also took the Broadway production to the West End in London and sang it there. "Gay Divorce" was his first Broadway show as a solo star after his sister Adele married.

Que Sera Sera--Doris Day Gable--"Teacher's Pet" Grant--"That Touch of Mink" Stewart-"The Man Who Knew Too Much"

When I was a kid-- I thought "Out of sight" really was James Brown--As an adult, I almost got killed one day playing "Living in America"on the car radio. I was driving around Kansas City--I grooved out when he said KC--the radio was so loud that a Fire Truck almost got me. That to me was really living in America. Edited by: cujas on Mar 25, 2011 5:41 PM

Mr. 6 it's all yours--

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Flash-gave me two names--I asked that 1 answer be given for consideration then the answer given was the correct one Since Flash was first, that member had the first choice. As for Gershwin--that was the clue that made the answer undoubtedly Simone.

Things are never as obvious as they seem-- ce n'est pas le film classique de RKO. Does that answer your question?

Can you tell me why Ginger Rogers wasn't allowed to use any of the dance video with Fred Astaire in her Kennedy Honors tribute? Can you tell me if Astaire was extremely angry that Ginger discussed their brief Broadway affair when he was fixing the dance numbers in "Girl Crazy"? Can you tell me why last every major dance star Astaire ever worked with from Audrey Hepburn, Leslie Caron, Eleanor Powell, Barrie Chase, Cyd Charisse, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller and dance luminaries like James Cagney, Barishnikov, Bob Fosse--showed up to speak and honor Fred Astaire at his AFI Life Achievement Award, except Ginger Rogers? Can you tell me why Ginger was allowed to wear dresses, such as the Powder Blue Feather number in "Cheek To Cheek" (Top Hat) or the heavy spangled beaded number in "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Follow the Fleet), when Astaire felt the dresses not only made it difficult for him to dance, but obsured his vision (feathers) and ko'ed him (beaded sleeve) for the number. (Infor from his autobiography "Steps In Time". Reportedly Rogers got to wear these dresses by using her mother's Lela Rogers clout with Pan Berman who was having an affair with her cousin/protege Lucille Ball. When Rogers started with Astaire, she couldn't tap dance-- He and Pan taught her. In fact, she never dubbed or recorded her own taps. Hermes Pan did the tapping for her. In fact she ended the series at RKO with a contract--Astaire was dropped and he lopped along for years until he was forced into retirement and too many bad movies and 2 2nd bananas to Crosby in the '40's. While Rogers was a top star during the '40's. "The Barkleys" was a marriage of necessity after Garland couldn't do it. The movie seemed to be a true enactment of Astaire and Rogers' professionally coupling. My point is there was no love lost between these two. Fred desparately didn't want her in "Flying Down To Rio." But my dear Music Professor--I didn't know that he hated her enought to try to kill her--maybe he got tired of her trying to get those chaine turns right in "Never Gonna Dance". She said she did 20 takes, with her feet bleeding--guess that was one take too many for Astaire. Edited by: cujas on Mar 23, 2011 6:37 PM Edited by: cujas on Mar 23, 2011 6:40 PM

A hunchback wants a handsome body to please a pretty gypsy girl.

Yep--you were first Metz is up--