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Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly in It's Always Fair Weather

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals

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It’s Always Fair Weather? I’m Afraid Not: Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse Say Good-bye to Broadway

  • October 31, 2013

What’s black and white and destroys Western Civilization?

Fredric March

Activist & Political · African American · Societal Trends

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A Star Is Shorn: Thanks to Woefully Underinformed Campus Activists, Acting Legend, Badger Alum, and Civil Rights Champion Fredric March Is Suddenly “Off Wisconsin”

  • November 25, 2020

Fredric March stands alongside four other mid-century drum majors for civil rights during the 1943 national radio broadcast of “Race-Relations Sunday.” Left to right: concert soprano Dorothy Maynor, actor Canada[…]

Model Shop

Cityscapes · Counterculture · Directors · Drama · Sex & Relationships

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Jacques Demy’s Model Shop (1969): The “Baroque Geometry” of Los Angeles in the 1960s

  • June 9, 2020

“I reckon LA as the noisiest, the smelliest, the most uncomfortable and most uncivilized major city in the United States. In short, a stinking sewer. . . .”1 – Adam[…]

Chansons

LGBT & Queer · Music & Musicals

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Bonjour, Paris! Musical Conventions in Les Chansons d’amour (2007, Christophe Honoré)

  • April 17, 2019

Les Chansons d’amour is unusual because of the realism of its characters, setting and story; the film has little dance and no big production numbers, but it is a musical.[…]

Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Pre-Code

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Happy Birthday, Lee Tracy (b. April 14, 1898): “A Manic, Scalding Passion for Success”

  • April 14, 2019

“With his impish grin, twinkling eyes, and boyish blond hair, he looks like Tom Sawyer crossed with a Tammany Hall fixer.”

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals

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Who Becomes a Legend Most? And Why Wasn’t It Betty Garrett?

  • February 12, 2019

“The reason I sought out Betty Garrett’s book in the first place was because of something devastating that I read – and didn’t want to be true – in Farley[…]

Composers · Music & Musicals

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Happy Birthday, Baby! Irving Berlin (b. May 11, 1888) on Film

  • May 11, 2018

This article first appeared in Bright Lights in October 2000. We reprint it as a tribute to the seminal composer on what would have been his 130th birthday. (And frankly, we’re surprised[…]

La La Land

Activist & Political · African American · Music & Musicals

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Los Angeles Cinema and the Utopia of La La Land

  • May 4, 2017

Few movies have represented LA with such fawning reverence and nostalgia as La La Land. The filmmakers depict a clean, spare, elegant city, sluiced in mid-century Technicolor, consisting almost exclusively[…]

Comedy · Directors · Drama

2

What Makes Them So Successful? A Look into the Philosophy Behind the Coens’ Filmography

  • December 16, 2016

The truth is that they tend toward philosophical absurdism, rather than nihilism, and this perspective is what either makes or breaks their film in terms of commercial appeal. The draw,[…]

Actors & Personalities

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Happy Birthday to Cinema’s Great Bad Boy: Peter O’Toole (8/2/32-12/14-13)

  • August 2, 2016

“Arriving in Los Angeles for the film’s premiere there, he quickly blotted his copybook by hurling a drink at the producer Sam Spiegel, the most powerful man in Hollywood at the time. Spiegel had ‘massacred’ Lawrence, O’Toole remarked, by cutting twenty minutes of it in order ‘to sell more fucking ice cream to the punters.'”

Comedy · Directors · Historical & Epic · LGBT & Queer

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Camping Out in Hollywood: The Coen Brothers’ Hail, Caesar!

  • March 5, 2016

Hail, Caesar! is not one of the Coens’ better films, but, because of its grab-bag of Hollywood silliness, it is perhaps the best at illuminating one of the main reasons[…]

Shirley MacLaine in What a Way to Go!

Reviews

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What a Way to Go! Shirley MacLaine, the 1960s, and How Hollywood Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb

  • May 6, 2014

Who’d have dreamed that the 1960s were as dumb as the 1990s? And that Shirley MacLaine was the transitional figure between the serious 1950s and the brainless decade that followed?[…]

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals

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Easter 2014, Part Deux: Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade, in which Fred and Judy celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ

  • April 20, 2014

In part “deux” of Bright Lights’ tribute to Easter, we present that devout duo, Fred and Judy, offering spiritual and musical solace on this day of reflection. Remember how it[…]

Producers & Studios

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The Fall of the House of Warner: The Warner Brothers

  • January 25, 2014

“In the 1930s, Warners effectively became the studio to go to for social critique, a risky position to hold under the Hays Code when pictures could be censored not just[…]

Directors · Reviews

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Vincente Minnelli’s Descents Into Hell

  • June 4, 2013

Vincente Minnelli’s reputation is that of a stylist – someone who did not author his own screenplays, but who directed whatever the studio (usually MGM) assigned to him (usually musicals), and[…]

Cyd and Fred in Silk Stockings

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals · Reviews

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Nothin’ but Legs! Fred and Cyd Go out Kicking in Cole Porter’s Silk Stockings

  • July 31, 2012

Sorry, folks, but this is the last dance

Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire in Funny Face

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals · Reviews

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Funny Face! Audrey Hepburn’s Fabulous Fifties Fashion Frolic! Also Starring Fred Astaire

  • April 30, 2012

Paris! Gershwin! Been there! Heard that!

Dietrich, Lund, and Arthur in A Foreign Affair

Actors & Personalities · Essays · War

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Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and American Interventionist Strategies in Postwar Berlin

  • April 30, 2012

“I read so much about immigrants, how they must adjust to customs and the words of foreign lands. Maybe because I was never treated like an immigrant! Nobody made excuses for me. Not then – not now. Nobody cares about my roots.”1 – Marlene Dietrich, April 15, 1985

Photo Essays · Reviews

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Images from The Three Musketeers (George Sidney, 1948)

  • August 25, 2011

Director George Sidney is known mainly for: (1) glamourizing women, and (2) showing the audience a good time. In The Three Musketeers (1948), he does both. The principal woman glamourized[…]

Leslie and Fred

Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals

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Yeah, I’m 56 and She’s 24. What’s Your Point? Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron, frequently though not continuously irresistible in Daddy Long Legs

  • January 31, 2011

Come on, do the Sluefoot? That I can resist.

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