..whew! im exhausted watching this w/its impressive physical moves...all while Janis is in a form fitting dress! Read today she passed. Another TRUE entertainer for the masses. Style, grace, and talent. Gone but never forgotten. RIP Janis.
THE BEST EVER IN TECHNICOLOR RENDERING , STEREOPHONIC SOUNTRACK AND CINEMASCOPE WIDE SCREEN RENDITION! MERCI BEAUCOUP FOR THIS HISTORICAL ORIGINAL PRINT! Emmanuel from Paris France
In the stage version, this was a solo for the women. I think its even better as a duet( ALTHOUGH half the lyrics are either changed or thrown out). Janis Paige and F Fred Astaire were a lot of fun
This song is a perfectly on-target assessment of Hollywood in the 1950s, as the industry struggled to survive in the face of the overwhelming competition of television by tossing out as many technological gimmicks as possible.
I sometimes think that the people responsible for setting American cultural standards in the Eisenhower era should have been committed. Whenever Cole Porter (COLE PORTER!) was brought to the screen, he was deemed far too socially incendiary to be allowed to pass through without censorship. In "Kiss Me, Kate", Petruchio's "Where Is The Life That Late I Led?" is stripped of all the sexual double-entendres which were its reason for existence. In this film, Fred Astaire can't say "bosom" (the line is "Unless her lips are scarlet/And her bosom's ten feet wide"), nor can he utter the unspeakably shocking word "bare" ("If Ava Gardner played Godiva, riding on a mare/The public wouldn't pay a cent, to see her in the bare"). Oh, well. As was said many years ago "If God didn't hate the sight of the human body, we would all have been born naked."
Personally I prefer the censored version of tying the bride’s lips being scarlet to her mouth being five feet wide. Both statements are about her mouth. Her bosom is another part of her body.
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..whew! im exhausted watching this w/its impressive physical moves...all while Janis is in a form fitting dress! Read today she passed. Another TRUE entertainer for the masses. Style, grace, and talent. Gone but never forgotten. RIP Janis.
Janis Page is my cousin. I need to get some popcorn and sit an watch my cousin with her movies.
A fun number. Happy 100th birthday Janis Paige!
THE BEST EVER IN TECHNICOLOR RENDERING , STEREOPHONIC SOUNTRACK AND CINEMASCOPE WIDE SCREEN RENDITION! MERCI BEAUCOUP FOR THIS HISTORICAL ORIGINAL PRINT! Emmanuel from Paris France
what a top song
They are the BEST EVER! MERCI BEAUCOUP! Emmanuel from Paris France
No words for this stereophonic VERSION ever! BRAVO! Emmanuel from PARIS FRANCE
In the stage version, this was a solo for the women. I think its even better as a duet( ALTHOUGH half the lyrics are either changed or thrown out). Janis Paige and F Fred Astaire were a lot of fun
This song is a perfectly on-target assessment of Hollywood in the 1950s, as the industry struggled to survive in the face of the overwhelming competition of television by tossing out as many technological gimmicks as possible.
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I watched this film a lot when I was a kid, and I never liked Peggy Dayton much. Watching as an adult, however ... she's amazing!
Who's the hunk from the second to the left in the beginning?
That was Troy Donahue.
I sometimes think that the people responsible for setting American cultural standards in the Eisenhower era should have been committed. Whenever Cole Porter (COLE PORTER!) was brought to the screen, he was deemed far too socially incendiary to be allowed to pass through without censorship. In "Kiss Me, Kate", Petruchio's "Where Is The Life That Late I Led?" is stripped of all the sexual double-entendres which were its reason for existence. In this film, Fred Astaire can't say "bosom" (the line is "Unless her lips are scarlet/And her bosom's ten feet wide"), nor can he utter the unspeakably shocking word "bare" ("If Ava Gardner played Godiva, riding on a mare/The public wouldn't pay a cent, to see her in the bare"). Oh, well. As was said many years ago "If God didn't hate the sight of the human body, we would all have been born naked."
Personally I prefer the censored version of tying the bride’s lips being scarlet to her mouth being five feet wide. Both statements are about her mouth. Her bosom is another part of her body.