Charles Walters
출생 : 1911-11-15, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
사망 : 1982-08-13
약력
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Walters (November 11, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s.
He was born in Pasadena, California, and educated at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
He is notable for directing Esther Williams' musicals involving underwater swimming and diving sequences, such as Dangerous When Wet, as well as several musicals starring Leslie Caron, such as Gigi (for which he is uncredited) and Lili. He has also directed musical remakes, including High Society, a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940), and Bundle of Joy, a remake of Bachelor Mother (1939). Walters also directed the last pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, The Barkleys of Broadway, as well as Cary Grant in the actor's last film Walk, Don't Run.
Walters died from lung cancer at the age of 71.
According to William J. Mann's book, "Behind the Screen", Walters was gay.
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Following twenty-three years of marriage to a philandering husband, divorcee Catherine Curtis begins life anew as a single woman.
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Lucille Ball stars with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, combining their comedic talents for the first time in a trio of comedy-dramas centered on the various aspects of marriage.
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During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
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The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
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The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
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American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
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The epic story of a family that's involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889.
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드라마 비평가 래리 맥케이 와 그의 아내 케이트, 그리고 그들의 네 아들은 붐비는 맨해튼 아파트에서 시골의 오래된 집으로 이사한다. 주부 케이트가 교외 생활에 정착하는 동안, 남편인 래리는 뉴욕의 극장 및 파티를 계속 즐기고 있는데, 케이트는 브로드웨이 스타 데보라본과의 만남을 언급하면서 래리의 행실에 의문을 갖기 시작 하면서 부부의 갈등은 시작이 되는데…
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Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds herself looking for work at a Manhattan motivational research agency run by punctilious Miles Doughton and his playboy brother, Evan.
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Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II.
Choreographer
2년 전 결혼했다가 현재는 이혼한 사이인 트레이시와 덱스터. 완벽함을 추구하는 트레이시는 상류층이면서 재즈 뮤지션이란 직업을 택한 덱스터의 인생관을 참지 못하고 이혼을 요구했던 것. 그러나 덱스터는 변함없이 트레이시를 사랑한다. 트레이시는 자신의 욕구를 충족시켜 줄 만한 모범적인 남성과 내일 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 그녀를 놓칠 수 없는 덱스터는 하루동안 그녀의 맘을 돌려놓기 위해 갖은 노력을 기울인다.
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2년 전 결혼했다가 현재는 이혼한 사이인 트레이시와 덱스터. 완벽함을 추구하는 트레이시는 상류층이면서 재즈 뮤지션이란 직업을 택한 덱스터의 인생관을 참지 못하고 이혼을 요구했던 것. 그러나 덱스터는 변함없이 트레이시를 사랑한다. 트레이시는 자신의 욕구를 충족시켜 줄 만한 모범적인 남성과 내일 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 그녀를 놓칠 수 없는 덱스터는 하루동안 그녀의 맘을 돌려놓기 위해 갖은 노력을 기울인다.
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An actress flirt demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.
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Musical adaptation of the story of Cinderella and her magical trip to the prince's ball.
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Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.
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Jenny Stewart is a tough Broadway musical star who doesn't take criticism from anyone. Yet there is one individual, Tye Graham, a blind pianist who may be able to break through her tough exterior.
Choreographer
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
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The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Dancer (uncredited)
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
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Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
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In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute life, even trying to do an honest day's work.
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A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
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A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most.
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작은 농장을 운영하는 제인은 유랑극단의 배우인 동생 애비게일에게 헛간을 내준다. 헛간을 극장으로 사용하는 대신 애비게일과 동료들은 농장의 일을 도와야 한다. 그런데 리허설을 보는 동안 제인은 극단의 연출가인 조에게 빠져든다. 하지만 조는 애비게일과도 심상치 않은 사이이다.
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Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
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주디 갈란드, 프레드 아스테어의 뮤지컬 영화
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At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.
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A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help when the other tenants throw a last-minute rent party in her apartment. In the process, they all charm the landlady out of a year's rent. The entire story is told in song (swing music) and dance (Jitterbug, Lindy Hop etc.).
Sailor (uncredited)
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
Choreographer
이듬해 봄에 열릴 만국박람회로 떠들썩한 세인트 루이스의 여름. 네 명의 딸과 아름다운 아내를 둔 스미스 씨는 부유한 비즈니스맨이다. 그의 승진과 함께 온 가족이 뉴욕으로 이사를 가야만 하는데, 가족들은 이 소식이 그다지 반갑지 않다. 더구나 몇 달만 지나면 그들이 고대하던 만국박람회가 드디어 열리는데, 이를 놓칠 수는 없지 않은가. 과연 스미스 씨 가족은 뉴욕으로 가게 될까?
Dancer (uncredited)
바람둥이 대니는 서부의 외딴 대학교에 가게 된다. 그런데 학생 수가 점점 줄어 학교가 폐교 위기에 놓이자 대니는 여자 친구들과 함께 쇼를 기획하고 학교를 살리고자 한다.
Lily's Dance Partner in Finale
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
