Jane Powell
Nacimiento : 1929-04-01, Portland, Oregon, USA
Muerte : 2021-09-16
Historia
Jane Powell was singing and dancing at an early age. She sang on the radio and performed in theaters before her screen debut in 1944. Through the 1940s and 1950s, she had a successful career in movie musicals. However, in 1957, her career in films ended, as she had outgrown her innocent girl-next-door image. She has made brief returns to acting in front of the camera -- on television, in commercials, and in a workout video. She has had a variety of roles on stage since the end of her movie career, including the musicals "South Pacific," "The Sound of Music," "Oklahoma!," "My Fair Lady," "Carousel," and a one-woman show "The Girl Next Door and How She Grew," from which she took the title of her 1988 autobiography.
As of 2010, Powell lives with her fifth husband, former child star Dickie Moore, in New York City and Connecticut, and is still active in television and theater.
Despite the same last name she is not related to actors William Powell, Dick Powell, or Eleanor Powell.
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Self
TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.
Herself
The beloved, Emmy-winning comic actor Don Knotts, best-known for his roles as the bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and the lecherous landlord Mr. Furley on Three's Company, presents a series of side-splitting stand-up routines and skits in rare performances from the 1960s-1970s. A master at playing nervous and neurotic characters, Knotts is also able to milk major laughs with his portrayals of romantically-challenged underdogs possessing oversized egos. In this special comedy collection, he is joined by singer-actress Joey Heatherton, actress Jane Powell, former Dallas Cowboys player Lance Rentzel, comic Jack Burns, Knott's Love God movie co-star Maureen Arthur and the legendary Jimmy Durante.
Herself
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Delia Ferguson
The young-adult novel by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson gets a lively update in this Showtime feature about an unusual family in Sandy Bottom, Wisconsin. The Greens share musical aspirations, but daughter Rachel (Madeline Zima), a talented violinist, is the one most likely to achieve them. Norman (Tom Irwin) is a dairy farmer and Ingrid (Glenne Headly) is a choir director who abandoned the piano when she married and settled down, but the Greens are a happy family, for the most part. The trick is finding a way to reconcile their dreams with a reality that may hold more riches than they realize. When Norman gets a chance to conduct the local orchestra for the Dairy Days celebration, it's an opportunity for the family to come together, not just with each other, but with a community they had never fully appreciate
Kit Andre
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
Herself
This behind-the-scenes documentary includes interviews with people who were directly involved in the MGM classic musical 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'. Those interviewed include actors and actresses who appeared in the film - as well as the film's choreographer, director, and musical arranger
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El tercer documental de la trilogía en el que se pueden ver interesantes tomas falsas protagonizadas por Judy Garland o Lena Horne. Anteriores estrellas musicales de la MGM como Gene Kelly presentan los números musicales.
Host
A look at the screen triumphs and private lives of the screen's number-one singing team.
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This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s.
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The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Kitty Douglass
The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.
Celeste
When Tubby the Tuba sets out to find a melody all of his own, his journey results in this enchanting and exciting musical tale. Tubby joins the circus and striving to be part of an orchestra, he travels to the Singing City where along the way he encounters many wonderful characters.
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La Metro Goldwyn Mayer celebró su 50º aniversario haciendo una recopilación de sus mejores clásicos musicales y entrevistando a sus protagonistas.
Elaine Anderson
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.
Esther Smith
This adaptation of the classic 1944 film musical explores the lives of the close-knit Smith family -- mother, father, grandfather, and five children -- who live in St. Louis in the year 1903.
Fayaway
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
Dodie
Se trata de una nueva versión de la comedia Tom, Dick and Harry, protagonizada por Ginger Rogers en 1941. Como su título en español indica, la protagonista debe elegir entre tres pretendientes muy distintos: un golfo que le promete dar una vida de diversión y fiesta, un vendedor que le ofrece cierta estabilidad emocional y un humilde mecánico que está verdaderamente enamorado de ella. Los números musicales se ofrecen a través de sueños de Powell sobre su futuro con cada uno de ellos.
Penny Windsor
Vanessa Windsor es una estrella de cine que es salvada de un accidente en el estudio por un apuesto joven, quien tras el feliz encuentro va tras ella. En su casa de la playa conocerá a la hija de la actriz, Penny, una joven sexy y alcohólica, por la que se sentirá atraído.
Susan Smith
Tres marinos, T. Martin , V. Damone y R. Tamblyn tienen 48 horas de permiso en San Francisco que utilizan, entre muchos enredos y peripecias, para cortejar a sus chicas, A. Miller, J. Powell, y D. Reynolds y salvar de las garras de un mundano empresario a J. Powell que quiere ser artista. La escena final, en la cubierta de un buque de guerra, es el famoso "Hallelujah!" de V. Youmans, cantado por las damiselas y bailado por la maravillosa Ann Miller.
Performer in Maytime
Una película biográfica sobre el autor y compositor musical Sigmund Romberg, el cual ha escrito obras como 'The Student Prince', 'The Desert Song' y 'The New Moon', entre otras. El título 'Deep in my Heart, Dear' proviene de la canción 'The student Prince' y la componen artistas y cantantes de todas las producciones de MGM. Entre las que se encuentran Cyd Charisse, Rosemary Clooney, Vic Damone y otros muchos más. Un repaso a la vida y obra de uno de los mayores y mejor valorados compositores musicales del cine. Muchas de las películas que hoy podemos ver tienen entre sus bandas sonoras algunas de sus temas.
Athena Mulvain
Un fiscal y un cantante se enamoran de dos hermanas, pero la convivencia con su extravagante familia no será del todo agradable.
Bride Milly Pontipee
Los hermanos Pontipee son siete rudos leñadores, todos solteros, que viven en una cabaña en las montañas. Su vida cambia radicalmente cuando Adam, el hermano mayor, encuentra novia en el pueblo y se la lleva a vivir a la cabaña. Los demás hermanos deciden, entonces, hacer lo mismo y van a la ciudad en busca de novia. Tan empeñados están en casarse que no dudan en secuestrar a siete chicas y se las llevan a vivir con ellos.
Penny Weston
A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.
Cindy Kimbell
Rick Livingston, un rico neoyorquino, es arrestado por exceso de velocidad al cruzar la pequeña población de Duck Creek. Este hecho va a provocar un gran revuelo en la vida del tranquilo lugar. Rick no tarda en conocer a Cindy, hija del juez local. Pero surgen problemas cuando un periódico de Nueva York publica las fotos de Rick y Cindy, y una antigua amiga del joven llega hasta la localidad para reconquistarlo a él y a su dinero. (Filmaffinit)
Elizabeth Rogers
Una joven que visita París con su padre se enamora de un francés. También conoce a una mujer que, sin saberlo, resulta ser su madre.
Ellen Bowen
Fred Astaire y Jane Powell son dos hermanos bailarines que acuden a Londres para actuar en la ceremonia que unirá en matrimonio a la princesa inglesa Elizabeth con Philip. Intentarán, además, encontrar el amor de sus vidas mientras la realeza celebra los fastos de la boda.
Patti Robinson
La familia Robinson está pasando 2 semanas de vacaciones de verano en un centro turístico en las montañas Catskill. La hija mayor, Patti, compite con su amiga, Valeria, por el amor de Demi Armendez, pero Patti está en desventaja porque sus padres piensan que es demasiado joven para pensar en chicos.
Nancy Barklay
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
Polly Bradford
Polly Bradford, la hija de un capitán de crucero de lujo, viaja como polizonte en el barco de su padre. El objetivo de la chica es encontrar una nueva pareja para él, viudo desde hace tiempo, antes de que termine el trayecto.
Judy Foster
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship with Carol's bumbling brother, Oogie, Judy suspects that her father is having an affair with a beautiful dance instructor. The two girls team up to expose Judy's father -- who is only taking innocent dance lessons.
Tess Morgan
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
Christine Evans
Christine Evans, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the widowed American ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Evans, believes that she is no longer a young girl and that she has fully matured into adulthood. Eager to make her mark in the sophisticated world of foreign diplomats living in Mexico, Christine appoints herself as organizer of her father's social activities and takes over the planning of a big garden party he will be hosting. Because he loves his daughter,
Sherry Williams
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before performing at her school, a visiting Broadway producer encourages her by telling her positive things about her sister. Soon afterwards, Sherry decides to make a surprise trip to New York to visit Josephine - but what she finds there is not at all what she expected
Jane Powell
A beautiful child star tires of life in the spotlight and so disguises herself and sneaks off to join a Civilian Conservation Corps camp to work with normal kids. It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't easy as it looks. When a crop is in danger of being ruined because there are not enough people to harvest it, the girl employs some of her famous colleagues to lend a hand. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Notre Dame."
