Annette Warren, the 'secret' singing voice of Ava Gardner and Lucille Ball in such films as the MGM classic 'Show Boat,' and a nightclub, TV and recording star whose career spans the past 70 years, will make a long-awaited return to New York at the age of 94, with a special performance of her new one-woman show, 'I Ain't Done Yet' at Feinstein's54 Below on Thursday, March 30 at 700 Pm.
- 10/25/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jane Powell, Howard Keel, and fellow Seven Brides for Seven Brothers cast members Howard Keel, best remembered for MGM musicals such as Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, is Turner Classic Movies' next-to-last "Summer Under the Stars" star. On Tuesday, August 30, TCM will be presenting 14 Howard Keel movies, including one TCM premiere — Charles Crichton's British crime drama Floods of Fear. (TCM had initially announced another premiere, the 1948 British drama The Small Voice, starring Valerie Hobson and James Donald; instead, as per its website TCM will be showing — once again — the 1951 comedy Three Guys Named Mike, starring Jane Wyman.) [Howard Keel Movie Schedule.] Tall, baritone-voiced, and handsome, Howard Keel could at times be a quite effective actor, whether in comedies (Callaway Went Thataway, when not singing in Annie Get Your Gun, Calamity Jane and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) or in dramas (the Western Ride, Vaquero!, when not singing...
- 8/30/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
For your pleasure, here's Ava Gardner (dubbed by Annette Warren) singing Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine" from the 1951 musical Show Boat. Ella Fitzgerald, Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne and Judy Garland all covered this, and Helen Morgan made it famous in the original 1927 Broadway show. But Gardner singing in the context of the movie is sublime. (Gardner's voice wound up on the soundtrack album of the film Show Boat, but not in the film itself.) She's playing a character passing for white who could have been played by Horne, but wasn't.
- 7/27/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
She didn't have much of a career at the movies, but that's because she was too good for them
I refuse to write an obituary on Lena Horne – I refuse to accept that she is not here still. And, to the extent that I never met her, what have I been deprived of just because the cessation of physical existence is reported in the papers? I learned a long time ago that there was no need, and very little reason, for believing the things printed in the papers. (In truth, isn't it the papers that are dying?)
But if I were to do an obituary, then I might want to say that in the age of Hedy Lamarr and Picasso's Dora Maar, Lena Horne may have been the most beautiful woman alive. I have a friend who says that, in fact, Horne was too beautiful, that her glory was slightly absurd.
I refuse to write an obituary on Lena Horne – I refuse to accept that she is not here still. And, to the extent that I never met her, what have I been deprived of just because the cessation of physical existence is reported in the papers? I learned a long time ago that there was no need, and very little reason, for believing the things printed in the papers. (In truth, isn't it the papers that are dying?)
But if I were to do an obituary, then I might want to say that in the age of Hedy Lamarr and Picasso's Dora Maar, Lena Horne may have been the most beautiful woman alive. I have a friend who says that, in fact, Horne was too beautiful, that her glory was slightly absurd.
- 5/11/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
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