Gigi: A Belle Époque Girl
Leslie Caron. Photo: MGM There’s a moment in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) where Peter Sellers impersonates Maurice Chevalier singing ”Thank Heaven for Little Girls” with an extreme French…
An American in Paris: Art, Dance & Romance
Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. Photo: MGM ”An American in Paris” first saw the light of day in 1928. A jazzy orchestral piece, it was written by George Gershwin and…
Meet Me in St. Louis: Home Sweet Home
Judy Garland. Photo: MGM There was drama behind the scenes of Meet Me in St. Louis, one of the best-loved nostalgia pieces of the early 1940s. Judy Garland reportedly found…
Ziegfeld Follies
The king of Broadway, "the glorifier of the American girl", Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell) is getting bored up in heaven and conjures one last, grand "Follies" show. Powell repeated his…