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The title character's impromptu dance performance cinches his friend's election as class president.

As for the obituaries mentioning Christmas Story more than Close Encounters, its likely due to the former plastering the TV airwaves at the close of every year. Quite a few people remember her still from Close Encounters, but due to many watching it once a year, the holiday film is what they associ...

Gwen Verdon , along with Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, was one of the First Ladies of the Musical Theater. In addition to Damn Yankees (in which she thankfully got to reprise her role on film), Verdon starred (as Sue Sue points out) in New Girl in Town (based on O'Neill's Anna Christie ); Redhead ;...

After the performance of "Maybe This Time" on The Dick Cavett Show , Liza talks about the shooting of Cabaret in Germany. She mentions that her wardrobe for the movie consisted mostly of her own clothes and Gwen Verdon's. This "fun fact" is also covered on the first episode of t...

Batman (1989) with Jack Nicholson as the Joker

In the below clip from The Dick Cavett Show that aired the month that Cabaret was released, Liza Minnelli sings "Maybe This Time" to rousing applause from the studio audience. She tells Dick Cavett that the song was written for her by John Kander and Fred Ebb. However, according to Kaye Ba...

. . . a wonderfully morbid example of precisely why Cabaret is in my movie collection * . The grim, sardonic tone of the story punctuated by the dark lyrics of Fred Ebb ("If you could see her through my eyes, She wouldn't look Jewish at all") and Joel Grey's sinister yet charismatic perfo...

My favorite with Liza Minnelli is Arthur . Dudley Moore does what little singing is in the film. Liza is both hilarious and serious. My favorite Liza Minnelli line in Arthur is her response to the customer at the diner counter who asks if she recommends the French toast: "With all of my heart....

In the actress video, the image used for Shirley Jones (at 6:02) is actually Shirley MacLaine.

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The local guy and his partner win the dance competition, but he gives the prize to another couple he thought danced better but lost because of the judges' racial bias.

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Swithin wrote: ↑March 9th, 2023, 11:36 pm A man gets up from his sick bed to go to the window and look upon the funeral procession of his boyhood friend and the country's hero.

Lloyd's of London

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Life is a cabaret, old chum. Come to the cabaret ... Day Eleven of TCM’s 31 Days of Oscars is devoted to musicals, my favorite movie genre. The final musical airing is Bob Fosse's divinely decadent Cabaret starring the one and only Liza Minnelli with songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb. (Technically,...

I have never seen Gone With The Wind in its entirety.

I may be the only classic movie fan who hasn't.