All the MGM musicals (think "That's Entertainment"). My great-grandmother would take me to the revival movie house (where kids were only 50 cents!), my grandmother took me to every re-release, and my mom and I would watch musicals on the Late Late Show (setting our alarm in the summertime for the 2am showing), and the ones that I always ended up singing and imitating were the MGM "More Stars Than There Are In Heaven" spectaculars. I wanted to sing like Judy and Lena, and dance like Eleanor and Ann. I wanted to be the "best friend" who got all the best lines (and sometimes even the better fellah). I wanted a peppy theme song to follow me down the street, and a wrenching torch song to signal when my love was gone.
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All the MGM musicals (think "That's Entertainment"). My great-grandmother would take me to the revival movie house (where kids were only 50 cents!), my grandmother took me to every re-release, and my mom and I would watch musicals on the Late Late Show (setting our alarm in the summertime for the 2am showing), and the ones that I always ended up singing and imitating were the MGM "More Stars Than There Are In Heaven" spectaculars. I wanted to sing like Judy and Lena, and dance like Eleanor and Ann. I wanted to be the "best friend" who got all the best lines (and sometimes even the better fellah). I wanted a peppy theme song to follow me down the street, and a wrenching torch song to signal when my love was gone.