Princess of Tap

Hint #2-- This director is responsible for the most popular Japanese movie in America in the last 20 years.

Robert Montgomery co-starred and directed Audrey Totter in Lady in the Lake.

Laraine Day was a very serious Mormon.

It looks like John Garfield.

Clark Gable slapped around Norma Shearer in A free soul.

Eleanor Powell was a minister in the Unity Church.

Betty Hutton danced with Fred Astaire let's dance.

Hint: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Ryan, Robert

John qualen

Ginger Rogers Box Set vol 1-- Never Gonna Dance: "See what a great actress I am, now that I can devote myself to my craft and not waste my time dancing with Fred Astaire." Even though Ginger today is only remembered as Fred Astaire's dancing partner, there was a time in the 1940s when she was a box office giant and a newly minted Academy Award winning actress. * I'll Be Seeing You-- in this melancholy wartime drama, Ginger is a girl in an awkward situation--meeting a soldier who is also an awkward situation. Together they fall in love and hopefully overcome both their awkward situations. The movie title is the same as the famous song title but alas, Ginger does not dance to it. Ginga is up to snuff in this movie and she has to be because her co-star, playing the soldier, is Joseph Cotten--a very fine actor. ** The Major and The Minor-- Ginger hits paydirt in this wartime comedy as a young woman who plays herself as a young girl. But that's not all-- before the movie is over Ginger also plays her own mother, who is superbly portrayed by Ginger's own mother as well, Lela Rogers. Ginger's co-star, Ray Milland, an experienced romantic comedy actor meets Ginger halfway, to make a good cinematic match. This movie is Billy Wilder's first outing as a director. The train scene in this movie reminds me of another movie that he made in the 1950s. *** Kitty Foyle-- Ginger struck gold with this " woman's movie" about a girl who loved love too much at first, but learns to love herself more in the end. A real feminist experience for the 1940s. Ginger won the Oscar for this one in 1941. ( I shouldn't tell you this, but Ginger does a little tap dancing in The Major and the Minor-- you'll just have to hold on to this until she tap dances again with Fred Astaire in 1949 in The Barkleys of Broadway.)

James Garner did Bret Maverick at Up Periscope for the same salary.

When The Rifleman would come on television, I would always wonder who he was shooting at? Sam Peckinpah is so American. DJ-- great question and very significant American director, thanks. Next: This next modern Japanese film director has had great success at home and abroad and has been critically acclaimed as well. He has great respect for Cinema, so he has honored 2 legendary film directors in two of his movies: Chaplin & Ozu. When you identify this director, please also name the two films where he honors the legendary directors and another one of his films that you like.

Sam Peckinpah Of course, I watched The Rifleman on television - - but I wouldn't classify him or his style of movie as being anything that I would like. But I follow the actors-- I like Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country with Joel McCrea And I can hardly even believe it myself, but I actually went to a movie theater to see William Holden in the Wild Bunch, along with another personal favorite, Warren Oates. But I draw the line at prison movies.

Now this movie, I'm ashamed to say that I almost bought for $3 because I like the title and I like Bela-- it still sounds good to me: Murder By Television - - produced by skiddy row Cameo Pictures? ( how they even had enough money to hire Hattie McDaniel too, I don't know?)

Ed Wood movie The Bride of the Monster starring Bela Lugosi, who refused the part of Frankenstein. I wasn't up to speed with this because I only saw the Ed Wood movie with Johnny Depp - - but I remember how beautiful the equipment was in this biopic in the scene with Martin Landau and his daughter, who amazingly looked just like his wife Barbara Bain.

Ingrid Bergman

The equipment looked good but it was absolutely for looks and not for drags - - had no utilitarian quality. It's alive! --that beautiful equipment in James Whale's Frankenstein.

Definitely Ed McMahon because Johnny Carson isn't going to tell you anything about himself. Next: Sandra Dee or Carol Lynley

Tom-- If Bing Crosby could also get an Oscar playing a priest, I think he's as good an actor as Spencer Tracy.

Drago-- the process is called an annulment. It's like some kind of a court procedure in the Church. There's criteria and you can get written statements from Witnesses. If you meet the criteria you can get the annulment. It doesn't matter whether you had children while you were married or not. There is a fee involved but it's not prohibitive,to the average person. There's nothing under the table about it - - it's simply a process that any divorced Catholic can go through.

Otto Kruger My favorite TV executive producer,Gail Patrick, used Otto Kruger a number of times in her Perry Mason series. Though elderly in appearance, Otto Kruger always gave a good performance. Gail had first met Otto during her Paramount contract movie Disbarred - - ironically they both played lawyers. For Hitchcock, Otto Kruger played the fascist mastermind in Saboteur. And I liked him very much as the Police Inspector who was trying to conduct a murder investigation under the nose of Master Detective Nick Charles in Another Thin Man.

Fred Astaire Forced To Dance with No-Dancing Movie Actresses Box Set Everyone has enjoyed the unique artistry of Fred Astaire's dancing. In this box set, you get to see just how great Fred is as he makes some of the worst movie star dancers in Hollywood look good. You can once again relive the pain of looking at some of Fred's best performances with some of his worst dancing partners. Watch Hollywood's Greatest Dancer being contractually forced to dance with these beautiful movie stars who were not professional dancers: * A Damsel in Distress-- in this movie Fred sort of dances with the lovely co-star Joan Fontaine but loses her in the middle of the dance mercifully, thanks to A Foggy Day in London Town. **Second Chorus - -The gorgeous Paulette Goddard is so bad in this movie that co-star Burgess Meredith feels sorry for her and marries her because all the diamonds in the world from some clown can't make up for a truly good marriage. Oops, that's not the plot that's what really happened. In the movie, Fred is forced to drag Paulette around like those life-sized rag dolls kids used to have--where you danced with the doll by tying your feet together and holding the doll up. *** Let's Dance-- the energetic and indefatigable very pretty Betty Hutton almost wins this battle by trying to keep up with Fred Astaire all the way. Her enthusiasm and attitude almost Saves the Day. Despite how acceptable her performance looked to us - - reportedly she won the "Fred Astaire made me cry uncontrollably because he said I couldn't Dance Award". Ironically she was a professional musical performer in the movies. Apparently being a singer in Vincent Lopez's Orchestra is not the same thing as being a professionally trained dancer. Despite all that, Betty was very entertaining and earns 3 stars from this reviewer.

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Mischa Auer was Alice Brady's Protege in My Man Godfrey.