Lovely to look at [videorecording]
- Title
- Lovely to look at [videorecording]
- Published by
- 1952.
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | FormatMoving image | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZIA 4-1329 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 cassette. 103 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- Based on the musical comedy and film Roberta, the latter starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. A young man with theatrical ambitions inherits a French couture house and finds himself embroiled in romantic complications.
- Contents
- DANCE CONTENTS: "I'll be hard to handle" [nightclub act], perf. by Miller and male ensemble. -- "Lafayette, we're here," perf. by Gower Champion, Keel, Skelton, and others. -- "I won't dance," perf. by Marge Champion and Gower Champion. -- "Smoke gets in your eyes" [dream sequence], perf. by Marge Champion and Gower Champion. -- Fashion show, perf. by Miller, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, and others.
- Call number
- *MGZIA 4-1329
- Note
- Motion picture originally released in 1952 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; re-released as a videocassette in 1990 by MGM/UA Home Video, Culver City, California. Producer: Jack Cummings. Director: Mervyn LeRoy.
- Choreography: Hermes Pan. Music: Jerome Kern. Book/lyrics: Otto A. Harbach. Additional and revised lyrics: Dorothy Fields. Screenplay: George Wells and Harry Ruby, based on the musical comedy Roberta, from the novel by Alice Duer Miller. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons and Gabriel Scognamillo. Fashion show costumes: Tony Duquette. Gowns: Adrian.
- Performer (note)
- Kathryn Grayson (Stephanie), Ann Miller (Bubbles Cassidy), Marge Champion (Clarisse), Howard Keel (Tony Naylor), Red Skelton (Al Marsh), Gower Champion (Jerry Ralby), and others.
- Title
- Lovely to look at [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1952.
- Cast
- Kathryn Grayson (Stephanie), Ann Miller (Bubbles Cassidy), Marge Champion (Clarisse), Howard Keel (Tony Naylor), Red Skelton (Al Marsh), Gower Champion (Jerry Ralby), and others.
- Local subject
- Motion pictures. Lovely to look at.
- Motion pictures. Roberta.
- Fashion shows.
- Added author
- Grayson, Kathryn, 1922-2010. Performer
- Miller, Ann, 1923-2004. Performer
- Champion, Marge. Performer
- Champion, Gower, 1919-1980. Performer
- Keel, Howard, 1919-2004. Performer
- Skelton, Red, 1913-1997. Performer
- Pan, Hermes, 1905-1990, choreographer.
- Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963. Librettist
- Harbach, Otto, 1873-1963. Lyricist
- Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Composer
- Fields, Dorothy, 1905-1974. Lyricist
- Duquette, Tony. Costume designer
- Adrian, 1903-1959. Costume designer
- LeRoy, Mervyn, 1900-1987, film director.
- Research call number
- *MGZIA 4-1329