Tag Archives: Betty Garrett

FLIX PIX (1043): “24 Hours of Shore Leave ON THE TOWN”

Posted on April 4, 2023 by KPKeelan

ON THE TOWN (directed by Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1949) ****+ (out of 5) . > With fun tunes from lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green and additional score by Leonard Bernstein, this is a near classic Hollywood musical that … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Adolph Green, Aldolph Green, Alice Pearce, Ann Miller, arts, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, cinema, comedies, criticism, films, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, ideas, Jim McBride, Jules Munshin, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leonard Bernstein, movies, musicals, New York, On the Town, opinion, reviews, sailors, Stanley Donen, Vera-Ellen | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (237): “A Bright, Shiny MY SISTER EILEEN”

Posted on December 8, 2021 by KPKeelan

MY SISTER EILEEN (directed by Richard Quine, 1955) ***+ (out of 5) . > This colorful, stagy Hollywood musical began life as a series of short stories published in the New Yorker, eventually becoming a book, a play, a musical, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Betty Garrett, Blake Edwards, Bob Fosse, cinema, comedy, Dick York, film criticism, films, humor, Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh, Jule Styne, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leo Robin, movies, musicals, My Sister Eileen, opinion, reviews, Richard Quine | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

Posted on July 25, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > JULY 2020! Most of us are still alive! Well that’s something… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ace in the Hole, Adolph Green, Aldolph Green, Alfre Woodard, Alice Pearce, alienation, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, American history, Ann Miller, Anne Baxter, art, Arthur Kennedy, astronomy, Atacama Desert, Atlanta, Augusto Pinochet, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Bel Geddes, Best Foreign Film, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, Bill O’Reilly, Billy Wilder, biography, Blood on the Moon, Bombshell, Brian Keith, British cinema, Brock Peters, Centennial Park bombing, Charlize Theron, child abuse, Chilean cinema, Chris Cooper, Christine Lahti, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, Cinema Verite, Clint Eastwood, comedies, concentration camps, corruption, courage, crime, criticism, Cynthia Erivo, David Holzman’s Diary, David Spade, denial, dictators, documentaries, Down in the Delta, drama, dramady, dysfunction, Edward Dmytryk, Edward G. Robinson, Elio Petri, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone, Eric Rohmer, exploitation, families, fascism, fathers and sons, FBI, films, forensics, Fox News, Françoise Fabian, Frank Ferguson, Frank Sinatra, Fred Rogers, Fritz Lang, Gene Kelly, genocide, George Reeves, Geraldo Rivera, Gian Maria Volonté, Girl With the Green Eyes, Glenn Ford, Gretchen Carlson, grief, Harriet, Harriet Tubman, Having a Wild Weekend, Herbie Hancock, heroism, Holland Taylor, Holocaust, ideas, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jaime Sánchez, Jane Fonda, Jay Roach, Jean Louis Trintignant, Jeanine Pirro, Jim McBride, John Boorman, John Hamm, John Lithgow, journalism, Juano Hernandez, Jules Munshin, justice, Kate McKinnon, Kathy Bates, Kathy Scruggs, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lauren Lapkus, Laurence Harvey, Leonard Bernstein, Life During Wartime, love, Luis Buñuel, Lynn Redgrave, Malcolm McDowell, Margot Robbie, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marketa Kimbrell, Marlene Dietrich, Matthew Rhys, Maya Angelou, media, Megyn Kelly, Mel Ferrer, mercenaries, Mississippi, mocumentaries, mothers of the disappeared, movies, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, murder, musicals, My Night at Maud’s, Nazism, Netflix, New Orleans, New York, Nicole Kidman, Nostalgia For the Light, obsession, Olivia Wilde, On the Town, opinion, outlaws, Paul Reubens, Paul Walter Hauser, people, personalities, Peter Finch, policing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, power, prostitution, PTSD, Rancho Notorious, Raymond St. Jacques, relationships, revenge, reviews, Richard Jewell, Richard Kind, Rita Tushingham, road trips, Rob Schneider, Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, Robert Wise, rock and roll, Rod Steiger, Roger Ailes, romance, Rupert Murdoch, Russell Johnson, sailors, satire, Saul Bass, scandal, science, sexism, Shirley Henderson, Sidney Lumet, slander, slavery, spoofs, Stanley Donen, surrealism, survivor’s guilt, technology, terrorism, The Big Carnival, The Dave Clark Five, The Pawnbroker, The Phantom of Liberty, the press, the underground railroad, The Violent Men, The Wrong Missy, Todd Solondz, Tom Hanks, Tom Junod, trauma, Vera-Ellen, Walk on the Wild Side, Walter Brennan, westerns, William Frawley, workplace abuse, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (29): The Films of MAY 2014

Posted on May 14, 2021 by KPKeelan

* MAY 2014: 22 films: from horror classics (CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON) to great modern documentaries (ONLY THE YOUNG). Some great stuff here, but a number of great let-downs too. Can’t say I chose as well as usual this … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Alec Guinness, Australian cinema, Before the Rain, Betty Garrett, Blake Edwards, Bob Fosse, Brendan Gleeson, Cary Grant, childhood, Cicely Tyson, cinema, coming of age, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Dark Passage, Dave Grohl, Defamation, Desi Arnez, Dick York, drama, Elizabeth Mims, Elizabeth Taylor, entertainment, Escape From Fort Bravo, Fear and Trembling, film criticism, films, Four Lions, Humphrey Bogart, Indiscreet, Ingrid Bergman, Is the Man Who is Tall Happy, Jack Lemmon, James Earl Jones, Janet Leigh, Jason Tippet, John Boorman, Kevin Keelan, Kim Mordaunt, Kinyarwanda, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laos, Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, Lucille Ball, Michel Gondry, movies, My Sister Eileen, Noam Chomsky, Only the Young, opinion, Peter Ustinov, Poison Friends, Preston Sturges, Rade Šerbedžija, redemption, refugees, reviews, Richard Attenborough, Richard Burton, Robert Wise, Roscoe Lee Brown, Sound City, Steve McQueen, Stranger By the Lake, superstition, Sylvie Testud, The Comedians, The Long Long Trailer, The Parking Lot Movie, The Rocket, The Salt of Life, The Sand Pebbles, The Tiger's Tail, They Might Be Giants, tragedy, Vincente Minnelli, Yoav Shamir | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Betty Garrett

FLIX PIX (1043): “24 Hours of Shore Leave ON THE TOWN”

FLIX PIX (237): “A Bright, Shiny MY SISTER EILEEN”

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (29): The Films of MAY 2014

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