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  1. no takers--let's continue

     

    "A heart is not a thing to build a wall about"

    "A kiss is not a thing that you can stall about"

     

    Singer, song and movie---This person has recently been in the news.

  2. Actually Ellie was a trained ballet dancer--she studied with the last ballet master of the Tsar. She went into tap to make a living and found out she was great. If you watch her in "Broadway Melody of 1936", she performed ballet on pointe.

     

    By the 1950's, she was in her mid-'40's and probably had no interest in reinvention. But since she was considered to be the greatest female tapdancer of her day ( I say greatest male or female), she took it upon herself to show the world that she still had it.

  3. Kim Novak--"Vertigo" & "Bell, Book & Candle"

    Vera Miles--"The FBI Story" & "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

     

    June Allison--"The Glenn Miller Story", "Strategic Air Command" & "The Stratton Story"

    Margaret Sullavan--"The Shop Around the Corner", "The Mortal Storm" & "The Next Time We Love"

     

    (Just viewed FBI last night & The Next Time last month--it's different)

  4. 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".

  5. 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"

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