Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on June 19, 2023

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical:Kiss Me Kate (1953)...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 3, 2020

The film version of Kiss Me Kate, helmed by MGM’s perennial musical director George Sidney, is a translation of Cole Porter’s rousing Broadway success. We must play a game of two degrees of separation because the stage smash was itself a comical backstage adaptation of Shakespeare&#8217   read more

The Blonde At The Film Posted by Cameron on January 6, 2018

via: https://rileysrandomreview.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/and-how-about-musical-monday/  Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. Kiss Me Kate premiered on Broadway in 1948 to immediate acclaim. Written by Samuel and Bella Spewack with a score by Cole Porter, Kiss Me Kate took Shakespeare&#8217   read more

Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on June 8, 2016

Crippled by television and desperate to get butts back into seats, 1953 was the year of 3D movies. For that entire year, nearly every big-budget production tried their hand at throwing things in the audiences’ face in the hopes of enticing them to buy a ticket. (Outside of 3D, the 1950s also...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on November 8, 2015

Kiss Me Kate Directed by George Sidney Written by Dorothy Kingsley after the Broadway musical by Sam and Bella Spewak and the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 1953/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing/My DVD collection But I’m always true to you, Darlin’, in my fashio   read more

Mildred's Fatburgers Posted by Beth Daniels on November 30, -0001

Now you can be part of this terrified audience through the magic of 3-D! Right in the Coriolanus Why This Is a Great Show Carol Haney: We all should have known her better Ann Miller: Underrated Tommy Rall: Baryshnikovian leaps   read more