Musical Monday: Kiss Me Kate (1953)

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) – Mu... Read full article

Kiss Me Kate (1953): A Musical and Meta Entertainment

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’... Read full article

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

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&#8... Read full article

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

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 full article

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

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 full article