Tag: Shirley MacLaine

L13FC: Vincente Minnelli

Posted on January 13, 2019 by

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Welcome back to Cindy’s Lucky 13 Film Club where we share comments with one another about a topic in the film industry. This is my lucky day because you are joining me on my birthday! Three cheers to Vincente Minnelli. He was a costume…

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L13FC: The Actress as Saint or Sinner

Posted on August 12, 2018 by

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Welcome back to this month’s discussion about the film industry. Have some fun and join in the conversation. In literature and in film, females in the Judeo-Christian world throughout the ages have been portrayed as either saint typified by the Virgin Mary, or as…

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Robert Mitchum

Posted on December 29, 2015 by

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  Robert Wise directed the adapted William Gibson Broadway play, Two for the Seesaw in 1962. The romantic drama featured a powerful pair, Shirley MacLaine and Robert Mitchum. After West Side Story’s success in 1959, Wise collaborated again with André Previn and provided a memorable score. Ted D….

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