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6. Debbie Reynolds
7. Mickey Rooney
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The Jazz Singer (1927) 1st Talking Movie - Trailer
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Warning! the above clip contains Al Jolson wearing 'Blackface' make-up
Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the spread of racial stereotypes. In 1848, blackface minstrel shows were an American national art of the time, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience. Early in the 20th century, blackface branched off from the minstrel show and became a form in its own right, until it ended in the United States with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Blackface was an important performance tradition in the American theater for roughly 100 years beginning around 1830. It quickly became popular elsewhere, particularly so in Britain, where the tradition lasted longer than in the U.S., occurring on primetime TV, most famously in The Black and White Minstrel Show, which ended in 1978. Early white performers in blackface used burnt cork and later greasepaint or shoe polish to blacken their skin and exaggerate their lips, often wearing woolly wigs, gloves, tailcoats, or ragged clothes to complete the transformation. Later, black artists also performed in blackface. Stereotypes embodied in the stock characters of blackface minstrels not only played a significant role in cementing and proliferating racist images, attitudes, and perceptions worldwide, but also in popularizing black culture.
By the mid-20th century, changing attitudes about race and racism effectively ended the prominence of blackface makeup used in performance in the U.S. and elsewhere. It remains in relatively limited use as a theatrical device and is more commonly used today as social commentary or satire. Perhaps the most enduring effect of blackface is the precedent it established in the introduction of African-American culture to an international audience, albeit through a distorted lens. Blackface's groundbreaking appropriation, exploitation, and assimilation of African-American culture—as well as the inter-ethnic artistic collaborations that stemmed from it—were but a prologue to the lucrative packaging, marketing, and dissemination of African-American cultural expression and its myriad derivative forms in today's world popular culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface
Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used predominantly by non-black performers to represent a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the spread of racial stereotypes. In 1848, blackface minstrel shows were an American national art of the time, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience. Early in the 20th century, blackface branched off from the minstrel show and became a form in its own right, until it ended in the United States with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Blackface was an important performance tradition in the American theater for roughly 100 years beginning around 1830. It quickly became popular elsewhere, particularly so in Britain, where the tradition lasted longer than in the U.S., occurring on primetime TV, most famously in The Black and White Minstrel Show, which ended in 1978. Early white performers in blackface used burnt cork and later greasepaint or shoe polish to blacken their skin and exaggerate their lips, often wearing woolly wigs, gloves, tailcoats, or ragged clothes to complete the transformation. Later, black artists also performed in blackface. Stereotypes embodied in the stock characters of blackface minstrels not only played a significant role in cementing and proliferating racist images, attitudes, and perceptions worldwide, but also in popularizing black culture.
By the mid-20th century, changing attitudes about race and racism effectively ended the prominence of blackface makeup used in performance in the U.S. and elsewhere. It remains in relatively limited use as a theatrical device and is more commonly used today as social commentary or satire. Perhaps the most enduring effect of blackface is the precedent it established in the introduction of African-American culture to an international audience, albeit through a distorted lens. Blackface's groundbreaking appropriation, exploitation, and assimilation of African-American culture—as well as the inter-ethnic artistic collaborations that stemmed from it—were but a prologue to the lucrative packaging, marketing, and dissemination of African-American cultural expression and its myriad derivative forms in today's world popular culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Too Hot to Handle 3:51
You're All The World To Me (Royal Wedding-1951)
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Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly-The Babbitt & the Bromide
7:17 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
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Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher Already Wrapped Filming 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Before Her Death
4:14 "The Mike Douglas Show" (1977) (PART 1) (With Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford & Mark Hamill)
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Mark Hamill Honors Carrie Fisher With a Touching Tribute: 'This is Downright Heartbreaking'
2:17 Carrie Fisher In 2008 Interview:
‘You're Only As Sick As Your Secrets’ 6:26 |
Judy Garland
Judy Garland - Singing In The Rain
(Little Nellie Kelly, 1940) 3:08 Judy Garland & Gene Kelly -Ballin' the Jack
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Judy Garland & Gene Kelly - For Me And My Gal (For Me And My Gal, 1942)
4:11 A&E Biography - Judy Garland
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Gene Kelly
Singin' in the Rain - Moses supposes
4:17 Singing In The Rain - You Were Meant For Me (Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds) 4:27
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Singing In The Rain - Title Song Gene Kelly 1952
4:35 The Gene Kelly Show, 1959
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Donald O'Connor
"Make 'Em Laugh" ~ Singin' in the Rain (1952)
4:07 Francis the Talking Mule, talks in Court
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Donald O'Connor tap dancing on roller skates (I love Melvin) 1953 4:30
Donald O'Connor Through the Years of his Career
4:50 |
Debbie Reynolds
HARDtalk Debbie Reynolds
2:58 Debbie Reynolds - Tammy
3:31 I Love Melvin (1953) – Lady Loves - Debbie Reynolds
3:01 Debbie Reynolds | CONVERSATIONS AT KCTS 9
26:45 Tribute to Debbie Reynolds 1996 Larry King Live
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Where Did You Learn To Dance - Donald O'Connor & Debbie Reynolds (I love Melvin) 1953 4:20
Loo Loo (Hit the Deck-1955)
4:28 Give A Girl A Break (1953)
2:43 Debbie Reynolds Tap Medley - Debbie Does Las Vegas
5:26 Roseanne interviews Debbie Reynolds (1998)
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Mickey Rooney
12 year old Mickey Rooney in Broadway-Hollywood (1933)
0:22 Louis Armstrong & Mickey Rooney 'The Strip' (1951)
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Mickey Rooney, Drums in 'Strike up the Band' (1940)
4:00 Mickey Rooney Talks Hollywood
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Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple & Bill "Bojangles" Robinson -
Tap Dancing 8:58 Shirley Temple - War Babies (Baby Burlesk) 1932
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1936 Shirley Temple & Buddy Ebsen
(Tap scenes from Capt. January) 4:17 Shirley Temple Biography
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Hollywood Highlights
Hollywood's Children
55:31 MGM Stars old and all together!
12:04 Some Of The Best (MGM 25th Anniversary Film) 1949
15:03 The RKO Story - It's all True
41:07 Ginger Rogers , Lucille Ball & Katharine Hepburn - The RKO Story
6:27 Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 4: It’s All True part 2 12:36
Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 5: Dark Victory 59:55
William Fox - The Forgotten Hollywood Mogul
42:49 Hollywood & the Stars:The Wild & Wonderful Thirties
23:42 Best of MGM Musicals
14:56 BIRTH OF CINEMA
9:39 American Cinema The Hollywood Style Documentary
55:16 American Cinema - One Hundred Years of Filmmaking: 3 Romantic Comedy
53:14 Western Movies History
13:24 American Cinema - One Hundred Years of Filmmaking: 7 The Studio System
55:02 American Cinema - One Hundred Years of Filmmaking: 9 The Film School Generation 57:36
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10 of The Youngest Academy Award Winners
2:09 MGM's 25th anniversary (1949)
10:28 MGM 30th Jubilee Anniversary 1954
2:07 Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 2: Let’s Face The Music and Dance (edited) 4:51
Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story - Episode 4: It’s All True part 1
8:09 Louis B. Mayer - (Documentary)
49:30 SAMUEL GOLDWYN documentary
10:58 Marcus Loew (Metro Pictures, later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
3:20 The Studio System | American Cinema Documentary
55:19 Hollywood & the Stars: Those Fabulous Musicals
21:55 Original Wizard of Oz Silent Movie 1910
13:12 American Cinema - One Hundred Years of Filmmaking: 2 The Star 52:19
American Cinema - One Hundred Years of Filmmaking: 4 Film Noir
55:14 American Cinema - One Hundred Years of Filmmaking: 6 The Combat Film 53:48
American Cinema - One Hundred Years of Filmmaking: 8 Film in The T.V. Age
54:42 American Cinema - One Hundred Years of Filmmaking: 10 The Edge of Hollywood
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MGM’s Leo: The Facts and Fictions Behind the Most Famous Lion in the World
http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2014/12/mgm-leo-most-famous-lion-in-world-fact-fiction/
http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2014/12/mgm-leo-most-famous-lion-in-world-fact-fiction/