Live scenes of Paris and a continuity Narrator link together four dramatic choreographies, all by Roland Petit Read More »
Tag Archives: Cyd Charisse
Brigadoon (1954) Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland Read More »
Something’s Got to Give (1962) George Cukor, Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse
Years after his wife, Ellen, was lost at sea, Nick has her declared legally dead and remarries. Read More »
The Mark of the Renegade (1951) Hugo Fregonese, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, J. Carrol Naish
MGM’s Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse were loaned to Universal for the Technicolor period piece Mark of the Renegade. Read More »
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992) Mark Rappaport, Eric Farr, Lauren Bacall, Cyd Charisse
Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson’s words from a posthumous diary. Read More »
Twilight for the Gods (1958) Joseph Pevney, Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy
Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann’s earlier The High and the Mighty. Read More »
Its Always Fair Weather (1955) Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Ted, Doug, and Angie are three ex-G.I.s who vow to meet again at a New York bar on October 11, 1955. Read More »
The Band Wagon (1953) Vincente Minnelli, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). Read More »
Silk Stockings (1957) Rouben Mamoulian, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige
A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris Read More »
Tension (1949) John Berry, Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller
A mousy drugstore manager turns killer after his conniving wife leaves him for another man. Read More »
Five Golden Hours (1961) Mario Zampi, Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders, Comedy
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness Read More »
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) Vincente Minnelli, Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, Drama
Former film star Jack Andreus is released from a sanitarium where he has lived for the previous three years, suffering from alcoholism, a traumatic automobile accident, and a severe mental breakdown. Read More »
The Unfinished Dance (1947) Henry Koster, Margaret O’Brien, Cyd Charisse, Karin Booth, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Meg, a young ballet student, idolizes the school’s top ballerina, the shallow Ariane Bouchet. Read More »
Party Girl (1958) Nicholas Ray, Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realized that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle. She makes him decide to get a better reputation. But mob king Rico Angelo *insists* that he continues his services.
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The Wild North (1952) Andrew Marton, Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse, Adventure, Romance, Western
Jules Vincent, a happy-go-lucky, outgoing French Canadian trapper in the wild Northwest, befriends a beautiful Native American girl, and although he makes an enemy of bully Mike Brody, he agrees to travel with him. When Brody tries to kill them, Vincent kills him in self-defense. He is pursued by a by-the-book, idealistic Constable Pedley, who believes in the mounties’ credo “we always get our man.” The country is rugged and fraught with dangers like white water rapids, avalanches, wolf packs and desperadoes. After capturing Vincent, the inexperienced Mountie finds he is in no shape to get back to civilization without Vincent’s help. Pedley is torn between fulfilling his duty and freeing the man who has saved his life.
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