Jane Powell
Рождение : 1929-04-01, Portland, Oregon, USA
Смерть : 2021-09-16
История
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.
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TCM host Robert Osborne discusses his life and career with guest interviewer Alec Baldwin in commemoration of Osborne's 20 years with the network.
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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.
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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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Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
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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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Самая блестящая, дорогая и утомительная видеосъемка в истории телевидения состоялась в пятницу, 19 февраля 1982 года, в нью-йоркском Radio City Music Hall. Мероприятие, за которое покупатели билетов платили до 1000 долларов за место (без учета налогов как взнос в Фонд актеров), было объявлено «Ночь сотни звёзд», но на самом деле в нем приняли участие около 230 звезд. И большая часть аудитории из 5800 человек заранее не подозревала, что они платят за просмотр телевизионной записи, сопровождающейся долгим ожиданием смены декораций и костюмов, перемоткой ленты и тому подобным. Исполнительный продюсер Александр Коэн подсчитал, что 5800 мест в Radio City Music Hall были распроданы по цене от 25 до 1000 долларов. Производство самого шоу стоило около 4 миллионов долларов, и ожидалось, что оно принесет около 2 миллионов долларов за новое дополнение к дому престарелых Актерского фонда в Энглвуде, штат Нью-Джерси. Считается, что ABC заплатила более 5 миллионов долларов за телевизионные права.
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.
(archive footage)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.
Penny Windsor
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursues him, and soon he's the 'caretaker' of her beach house. Vanessa's sexy, alcoholic adult daughter Penny accidentally meets Chris, who rescues her from an 'octopus' boyfriend. Before you know it, Chris is involved with both mother and daughter, and his only way out is to take a job in a Mexican picture about man-eating orchids...
Susan Smith
Sailors on leave in San Francisco get mixed up in love and show business.
Performer in Maytime
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Athena Mulvain
Афина Малвейн вместе с шестью сёстрами живёт под опекой бабушки и дедушки, пропагандирующих здоровый образ жизни. Малвейны так же являются поклонниками нумерологии и астрологии. Однажды Афина знакомится с начинающим политиком Адамом Шоу. Знакомство быстро перерастает в роман. Когда речь заходит о свадьбе, перед молодыми возникает проблема в лице консервативного общества, в котором вращается Адам. Примет ли это общество Афину?
Bride Milly Pontipee
Семь крепких парней живут среди высоких деревьев дремучего леса Орегоны. Их быт и нравы просты, а о приличных манерах и как себя нужно вести в обществе они вообще не слышали. Однажды старший из братьев - Адам приводит в их «холостяцкую берлогу» свою очаровательную невесту. Милли - воспитанной городской девушке с крепкими нервами и железным характером суждено укротить дурной нрав мужской компании, научить этикету и в итоге помочь парням найти своих спутниц жизни
Penny Weston
A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.
Cindy Kimbell
Рик Ливингстон, миллионер и повеса, превысил скорость, спеша на собственную свадьбу и был приговорен к тюремному заключению в никому не известном городке. Не сумев убедить неподкупного судью отпустить его, не привыкший подчиняться чужим правилам Рик использует все возможные средства, чтобы как можно скорее вернуться домой, где его ждет невеста - звезда бродвейских мюзиклов. К счастью для Рика, дочь судьи попадает под чары молодого плейбоя и помогает ему совершить побег.
Elizabeth Rogers
Джим Роджерс, владелец ранчо из Техаса, по воле судьбы становится международным дипломатом и отправляется по заданию в Париж, прихватив с собой свою дочь Элизабет. Однако там он выясняет, что ее мать - певица Мари Деварон, которую он любил двадцать лет назад, тоже находится в Париже, и начинает всеми силами стараться предотвратить встречу дочери с матерью. Но мистеру Роджерсу придётся больше поволноваться, когда Элизабет встречает молодого француза Андре, с которым у нее возникает бурный стремительный роман...
Ellen Bowen
Брат и сестра по дороге на гастроли в Лондон находят свою любовь. Брат и сестра — Том и Эллен — популярные танцоры из Нью-Йорка. Они получают приглашение на королевскую свадьбу в Лондоне. На корабле Эллен знакомится с молодым красивым лордом, а холостяк Том — с талантливой танцовщицей…
Patti Robinson
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
Nancy Barklay
Mother and daughter compete over same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.
Polly Bradford
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged with transporting a troupe of opera singers to Rio de Janeiro. Anxious to become a singer herself, Bradford's young daughter, Polly, decides to skip out on school and sneak onto the ship before it departs. Angry that his daughter disobeyed him, Bradford puts her to work on the ship for punishment, but Polly has her own ideas about how to spend the trip.
Judy Foster
В прекрасном, затерянном между гор, южном городке Санта Барбара, штат Калифорния, всегда происходит что-нибудь интересное. На этот раз вы узнаете историю о любви тинейджеров из местной гимназии. Девушка подросток Джуди Фостер — солистка школьного оркестра. Она с друзьями старательно репетируют песни для танцевального вечера, но ее манера пения и поведения на сцене не нравится ее старшей подруге и руководительнице бала Кэрол Прингл, котораяназывает исполнение «слишком юным» и беспечным. Приходит день праздника и выясняется, что парень по имени Оджи — постоянный кавалер Джуди, не будет сопровождать её на выпускной бал. Расстроенная этим ужасным обстоятельством девушка просит владельца популярного в городе кафе отпустить его двадцатилетнего племянника Стивена Эндрюса с ней в качестве партнера для танцев.
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."
