VERY LITTLE HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT JANE POWELL'S DANCING...HER SINGING ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT...BUT FILMS SUCH AS THIS ONE SHE HOLDS HER OWN WITH TALENTED GENE NELSON....SHE IS ONE OF THE FEW STARS OF THE FIFTIES STILL AROUND AT 90...LOVE HER...
The FABULOUS Gene Nelson! He's my FAVORITE! too bad he wasn't more popular, he can sing, dance and act! He was such an underrated actor and dancer. I saw this move once years ago and couldn't what it was called, but I do remember this scene. They just don't make movies like this anymore. Thanks so much for posting this!
Lots of great early 50’s autos in this number too! Very imaginative using the props in an auto garage. This was Jane Powell’s loan out from MGM to Warner Bros.
LOVED JANE POWELL AND SHE IS 91 NOW....UNDERATED AND NEVER USED WELL AT MGM...BEST FILM WAS "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" AND THE SECOND BEST FOR ME WAS "THE GIRL MOST LIKELY" DONE AT RKO IN 1957...
Sometimes I keep thinking this movie was made by Metro Goldwyn Mayer since the fact that it started Jane Powell, the DVD was released by Warner Bros, and due to the fact that Warner Archive Collection owns the rights to every MGM musical movie
Jane is playing a sassier character than her usual teen ingenue. Fittingly, since behind the scenes she was cheating on the first of her five husbands, skater Geary Steffen. Their second child was only a few months old when she began an affair with Gene Nelson. The adulterous pair agreed to divorce and marry, but Gene backed out and Jane, on the rebound, wed an auto manufacturer instead. Professionally things went better; her next picture was her best, 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'. The choreography here is quite bright for Leroy Prinz- who has to incorporate nightclub comic Jack E Leonard, a 240- pounder- if no match for Michael Kidd's. The plot was officially adapted from an old Broadway show by George S Kaufman which had already been the basis for five films. Really the tale of three sailors on the loose and getting mixed up with show folk is more akin to MGM's 'Born to Dance' of 1936, which starred Jane's namesake Eleanor Powell, but with the girl changed from a singer to a dancer. Both pix were directed by Roy del Ruth, whose trademark- fluent and elegant camera movement- was well suited to covering the Scope frame. The score is stuffed with indifferent songs by the Sammys, Messrs Cahn and Fain. Sammy Cahn was also producer, his only such venture on the big screen.
@@bbcisrubbish It's still a bit cringe worthy today. Back in the early 1950s nobody thought anything of it, but fortunately we've evolved and this simply isn't acceptable today. I'd love to post this video on Facebook, because I think this is one of the best examples of Gene Nelson's fabulous dancing, but I've held back because of the blackface bit.
These guys look femme.. and his hair is not very manly, either..... why do I mention this? Because men ought to look like MEN!!! I wouldn't want to have his MAKE UP to rub off on me!
![[HQ] The Lately Song (Three Sailors & A Girl-1953)](/img/logo.svg){kind=logo}
