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  A number that was merely sung in the Broadway original is reconceived and redefined in an outlandishly stylish way for the screen by the e...

 Yes, Astaire and Kelly were brilliant, as they kept reminding us (especially the latter, Hollywood's most endearing egomaniac), but for...

 A curiously neglected film musical, Frank's "Li'l Abner" was successfully stylized in ways that Mankiewicz's "Gu...

 It's way too short, lasting perhaps less than a minute, and for some reason, director Bridges opted to film it in shadows, but is any d...

  For reasons sadly transparent, more than 50 years later, Rita Moreno continues to downgrade Natalie Wood, commenting in an AFI interview t...