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A musical film is a genre of film that consists of songs as well as dialogue. This type of film became popular in the 1930’s and is around today. Musical films started being created when the technology of sound became advanced enough to put music in a film. Musicals that would normally be performed on a stage in a theater could then be made into a film. Musical films allowed the musicals to improve because of the variety of set and the ability to shoot a scene more than once if someone…

I discovered her class about fifteen years ago, danced with her on and off for about six years, and I credit her for making me the dancer I am today. I grew up watching all those wonderful old MGM musicals with Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and Fred Astaire. When I was ten years old I saw Bob Fosse's autobiographical film, All That Jazz, and was introduced to what would become my favorite style of dance. At ten years of age, All That Jazz was a movie which was a bit inappropriate for my to see…

Roger’s wore, was a suit, which was a popular style for women to wear in the 1930s. My favorite outfit that Ginger wore in the film was the ostrich feather dress in the song, “Cheek to Cheek” because it was elegant looking and fit the musical part. Fred Astaire chose and provided his own clothes for his film wardrobes, which…

Chronological: Ginger Rogers Every actress plans to get big, but ultimately most of them fail. In my case I never failed. I was always the best I could be. I am Ginger Rogers. My real name was Virginia Katherine McMath and I was born on July 16, 1911. I slowly became well known as ‘Ginger’ because one of my younger cousins had a difficult time pronouncing my name. Growing up, I was singing and dancing around my house and my family knew I was going to be a star. By the age of 10, I was going to…

smooth combination of slow and rapid beat danced to big band swing-style music with tempo around 120 to 136 beats per minute. The dance was named after Harry Fox, a famous broadway dancer, and it is also often correlated with dancing styles of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.…

during the jazz age and during The Great Gatsby The Texas Tommy the "Fairmont hotel gave birth to the Texas Tommy it’s a swing dance it was known as the first couples dance it had an 8 count rhythm which was a dance that deals with acrobatics. Fred Astaire danced the steps in the story Verne and Irene castle. These dances are all in all the great Gatsby, which was known as the jazz age, which they all had a waving motion when it comes to the clothes. Works Cited "History Of Argentine…

The Mambo dance was originated by a Cuban bandleader, Perez Prado, in Havana, Cuba in the 1930s. It is a very sexy Latin style dance along with passionate and flirtatious hip movement that flows forward and backward. Additionally, Mambo dancers dance in sharp and quick steps, side steps, rock steps, kicks, points and flicks of the feet. There are a variety of Mambo rhythms, and they are all based on the clave rhythm that used in Afro-Cuban music. The rhythms are set by a variety of percussion…

Musicals Let’s change gears here into something a little different, and a lot of fun! Musicals. Who doesn’t like a good musical? And before you roll your eyes and think we’re only going to talk about Disney, there’s a lot more to musicals then animated characters singing to woodland creatures. Musicals have been around since the dawn of theatre - and like many of our genres, started on the stage. But what actually makes a musical? In this genre, we define a musical as a film where the songs are…

Wind" (1939). Steiner was a frequent collaborator with some of the most well known film directors in history, including Michael Curtiz, John Ford and William Wyler, and scored many of the films with Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Fred Astaire. Steiner's talent for matching the image on screen and catching every little detail was just one facet of his abilities as a film composer. He could also find the hidden emotional undercurrent in a scene and add just the right musical…

Tony that same year for her starring role in Ondine. “Over the next decade, Hepburn proved herself more than a math for Hollywood’s top leading men in such hits as Sabrina (1954, with William Holden and Humphrey Bogart), Funny Face (1957, with Fred Astaire) and Love in the Afternoon (1957, with Gary Cooper)” (History.com). Her role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), earned her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Actress. She earned her spot as a star in the 1964 film, My Fair Lady, as Eliza…