Which 1954 Gene Kelly musical film featured the song 'Almost Like Being In Love'?
"Brigadoon (film) Brigadoon is a 1954 American MGM musical film made in CinemaScope and Anscocolor based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse. ""Brigadoon"" has been broadcast on American television and is available in VHS and DVD formats. The 1954 film is not to be confused with the 1966 television film of the same title and essentially the same plot. The 1966 film was directed by Fielder Cook and stars Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, and Sally"
"and willingness to spend as much time as necessary to enable the ailing Garland to complete her part. There followed in quick succession two musicals that secured Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film. First, ""An American in Paris"" in 1951 and—probably the most popular and admired of all film musicals—""Singin' in the Rain"" in 1952. As co-director, lead star, and choreographer, Kelly was the central driving force in both of these films. Johnny Green, the head of music at MGM at the time, said of him, Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly"
"was voted the 15th most popular film actor on the American Film Institute’s millennium list, while his ""Singin' in the Rain"" was voted the most popular movie musical of all time. This filmography below contains a chronological listing of Gene Kelly's feature films. His musicals are indicated with a beamed eighth note symbol (♫). Gene Kelly filmography Gene Kelly (1912–1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and choreographer whose work in motion pictures spans from 1942 to 1996. He is probably best known today for his performances in musicals, notably ""An American in Paris"" (1951) and ""Singin' in"
"is famous for; among them, in addition to the 1951 ""Show Boat"", were ""Girl Crazy"" (the 1943 version), ""Meet Me in St. Louis"" (1944) (which included a memorable arrangement of ""The Trolley Song""), ""Anchors Aweigh"" (1945), the 1947 film version of ""Good News"", ""Summer Holiday"" (1948), the 1949 film version of ""On the Town"", the 1950 film version of ""Annie Get Your Gun"", ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), the 1953 film version of ""Kiss Me, Kate"", ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"" (1954), ""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""The Band Wagon"" (1953), Gene Kelly's pioneering 1956 all-ballet film ""Invitation to the"
"Gene Kelly filmography Gene Kelly (1912–1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and choreographer whose work in motion pictures spans from 1942 to 1996. He is probably best known today for his performances in musicals, notably ""An American in Paris"" (1951) and ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952). Kelly made his Hollywood film debut in ""For Me and My Gal"" (1942), co-starring with Judy Garland. Afterward, he went on to work as an actor, dancer and subsequently, choreographer, in a series of musical films. In these films, his choreography included experiments with a combination of dance and animation (""Anchors"
"Romberg, 1954). The film is one of the MGM musicals that entered the public domain on their 28th anniversaries because MGM did not renew their copyrights. Cast notes The working title for the film was ""As the Clouds Roll By"". Gene Kelly was originally intended to play Kern, with Gloria deHaven, Jacqueline White, Imogene Carpenter, a stage actress, and Jeanette MacDonald in major parts. None appeared in the film. The first 15 minutes of the film consist of a condensed adaptation of Act I of ""Show Boat"", with the order of some of the songs shifted - ""Can't Help Lovin'"
"Arms"" and ""Sailor"", she also charted with other hits in the late 1950s with ""Seven Days"" and ""The Village of St Bernadette"". In 1967 she covered the song, ""It Won't Be Long 'Til Christmas"" which was originally to be featured in the Walt Disney feature film musical, ""The Happiest Millionaire"" but then was deleted from the final cut of the film. Shelton's versions of the song has since been featured on several compilation recordings. As well as singing and recording, Anne appeared in several films, including ""Miss London Ltd."" (1943), ""King Arthur Was a Gentleman"", and ""Bees in Paradise"" (1943),"
"is the version generally heard today. The song was also made popular by Shirley Bassey. Like Judy Garland, Bassey performed this song as a medley with the song, ""This Can't Be Love"". ""Almost Like Being in Love"" was revived in a downbeat ballad version by singer Michael Johnson (U.S. no. 32, 1978). His rendition became a Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit in both the U.S. (no. 4) and Canada (no. 10). Almost Like Being in Love ""Almost Like Being in Love"" is a popular song published and first performed in 1947. The music was written by Frederick Loewe, and the"
"popular singers, they also were featured vocalists for bandleaders like Spike Jones and their solo work is part of many Disney films. For example, ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Lady and the Tramp"" and ""The Jungle Book"" as well as numerous animated shorts, including ""Trick or Treat"" (1952), ""Pigs Is Pigs"" (1954), ""Paul Bunyan"" (1958), and ""Noah's Ark"" (1959). Their work for Disney also led to numerous television appearances, beginning with the ""Disneyland"" television show episode ""Cavalcade of Songs"", originally broadcast February 16, 1955. The Mellomen were also featured frequently on Disneyland Records, which released their 1957 album ""Meet Me"
"Almost in Love (song) ""Almost in Love"" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1968 motion picture ""Live a Little, Love a Little"". In September 1968 it was released on a single with the song ""A Little Less Conversation"" on the other side. Its first LP release was as the title track of Presley's budget album ""Almost in Love"" in November 1970. On December 1, 1970 the single ""Almost in Love"" / ""A Little Less Conversation"" was re-released as part of RCA Victor's Gold Standard Series (together with 9 other Presley's singles). The"
"love with him so much she wants to marry him. Eventually, the stodgy stockbroker deals with his wife and daughter as well as his maid Linda (played by Joan Sims, who keeps fainting every time Bobby sings) being so infatuated. As Long as They're Happy As Long as They're Happy is a 1955 British musical comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Jack Buchanan, Susan Stephen and Diana Dors. It is based on the 1953 play of the same name by Vernon Sylvaine. The film is about a US singer named Bobby Denver, who is known as the"
"in the score as we hear it today. Harry James released a version of the blues section on his 1953 album ""One Night Stand,"" recorded live at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago (Columbia GL 522 and CL 522). In 1951, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the musical film ""An American in Paris"", featuring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the ""An American in Paris"" symphonic poem (arranged for the film by Johnny"
"opened on July 2, 1985 at the Gershwin Theatre after 39 previews, and ran for 367 performances, closing on May 18, 1986. Informational notes Citations Further reading Singin' in the Rain Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to ""talkies"". The film was only a modest hit when first released. Donald O'Connor won the Golden"
"As Long as They're Happy As Long as They're Happy is a 1955 British musical comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Jack Buchanan, Susan Stephen and Diana Dors. It is based on the 1953 play of the same name by Vernon Sylvaine. The film is about a US singer named Bobby Denver, who is known as the ""Crying Crooner"" (a la Johnnie Ray), who stays with a stockbroker's family by mistake when he comes to England. The stockbroker, played by Jack Buchanan, has three very pretty daughters with the youngest Gwen (played by Janette Scott) madly in"
"Jennifer Jason Leigh performed the song in the 1995 independent film ""Georgia"" at a fictitious nightclub. Her take on the track included drums and bass performed by John C. Reilly and Tony Marsico, respectively, and featured a saxophone and harmonica interlude as performed by Jimmy Z. Director Alex Infascelli's 2000 film of the same name, based upon Carlo Lucarelli's 1997 novel, were both inspired by the lyrics of ""Almost Blue"". American trumpeter Chet Baker recorded the tune in 1987 for the documentary ""Let's Get Lost"" (1989) and it was released on the soundtrack album. He also covered it in concert"
"Horse Open Sleigh"" in 1857. ""Toyland"" originated in the 1903 operetta ""Babes in Toyland"", and ""Happy Holiday"" was first performed in the 1942 film ""Holiday Inn"". Perry Como and the Fontane Sisters reached number 19 on ""Billboard"" magazine's Records Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart and number 23 on its list of the Best-Selling Pop Singles of the week in 1951 with the first recording of ""It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"". Peggy Lee's rendition of ""It's Christmas Time Again"" was released in 1953, and ""Caroling, Caroling"" first appeared on the 1954 LP ""The Christmas Mood"" by The"
"were used extensively in the filming of ""The Cooler"". The hotel buildings demolished during the closing credits are the Aladdin, the Sands, the Landmark, and the Dunes hotels. The song ""Almost Like Being in Love"", used to mark Bernie's transition from mournful sad sack to winner, was written by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner for the stage musical ""Brigadoon"". According to the 2006 documentary film ""This Film Is Not Yet Rated"", the MPAA originally rated the film NC-17 because of a glimpse of Maria Bello's pubic hair during a sex scene. An edited version rated R was released in"
"including ""Meet Me in St. Louis"" (1944), ""Easter Parade"" (1948), ""On the Town"" (1949), ""Show Boat"" (1951), ""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), and ""The Band Wagon"" (1953). Edens eventually separated from the MGM unit in the mid-1950s when the musical film's days of glory were coming to an end. He had his own office and worked on such projects as ""Funny Face"" (1957) with Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson at Paramount. Edens is considered to be an important creative musical figure from the end of the 1930s until the beginning of the 1960s."
"Singin' in the Rain Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to ""talkies"". The film was only a modest hit when first released. Donald O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green won the Writers Guild of America Award for their screenplay,"
"Stan Kenton, Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Stan Getz, Peggy Lee, Gloria Lynne, Vic Damone, Freddy Cole, Jean Laughlin, Tommy Joy, Jamie Cullum, Charlie Watts, Beyoncé Knowles, Rachael MacFarlane, Seth MacFarlane, Claire Martin and Eugene Chadbourne with Paul Lovens. The Frank Sinatra version, released as a Columbia Records single, 40229, appeared in the ""Cashbox"" magazine best-selling record charts in 1954, reaching no. 40 on May 22, 1954. The song has appeared in the movie ""Playing by Heart"" (1998) in a recording by Chet Baker and in ""My Sex Life ... or How I Got Into an"
"Lilacs in the Spring Lilacs in the Spring is a 1954 British musical film starring Anna Neagle and Errol Flynn. It was the first of two movies the stars made together, the other being ""King's Rhapsody"". It was released in the USA as Let's Make Up. It was the feature film debut of (the then-unknown) Sean Connery. A young actress, Carole Beaumont, is wooed by actor-producer Charles King but she is unsure how she feels about him. During an air raid in the Blitz, a bomb explosion rocks the cafe and Carole is knocked unconscious. In her confused state, fantasies"
"and landed bit parts in movies until she was spotted by dancer/choreographer Jack Cole, becoming his dance partner and assistant from 1946–48. In 1949, Haney was hired by Gene Kelly to be his assistant choreographer on several M-G-M musical films, and she aided Kelly in some of his best work, including ""On the Town"" (1949), ""Summer Stock"" (1950), ""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), as well as Kelly's dream project, ""Invitation to the Dance"" (1956). As Kelly's Dance Captain, Haney routinely worked with his partner and upon learning their strong points, choreographed numbers around them. Kelly"
"Gene Kelly Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. Best known today for his performances in films such as ""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""Anchors Aweigh"" (1945)— for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor—and ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), he starred in musical films until they fell out of fashion in the late 1950s."
"Kael called the film a ""delayed hangover"", and said that its ""mixture of parody, cynicism and song and dance is perhaps a little sour"". She singled out for praise Dailey's ""Situationwise"" number, and said that ""to a great extent this is Dailey's movie"". The film was also nominated in 1955 for Academy Awards for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture and for Best Story and Screenplay. In recent years, the film has gained reputation in the minds of musical and Kelly fans, who point to his dance on roller skates, ""I Like Myself"", as the last great dance solo of"
"Almost Angels Almost Angels (also known in the UK as Born to Sing and in Austria and Germany as Ein Gruss aus Wien) is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions film about a group of boys in the Vienna Boys' Choir. The film shows the chorister's recruitment process, the rehearsals and the life in the institution as well. The story also conveys the value of friendship, honesty and loyalty. The child actors were actual members of the Vienna Boys Choir who perform several traditional Austrian songs throughout the motion picture. The filming took place in the Augarten Palais, the surroundings of"
"King Kelly of the U.S.A. King Kelly of the U.S.A. is a 1934 American romantic musical film directed by Leonard Fields. The film stars then popular singer Guy Robertson in his only feature film appearance. James W. Kelly (Guy Robertson) and his pal Happy Moran (Edgar Kennedy) are taking their all-girl-dancing troupe across the ocean to tour Europe, when Kelly and the mysterious Catherine Bell (Irene Ware), fall for each other, literally. When their backers pull out, Happy and Kelly manage to scrounge enough dough to get the girls back home; but, find themselves broke, in Europe, in a tiny"
"in the film, during which the characters' dreams and hopes are enacted in music and dance without words. The musical made its debut in 1954 and had been a notable success, helping make a star of Julie Andrews. MGM bought the film rights in 1957. However a film was not made for many years. Ken Russell was friends with the model Twiggy, who wanted to get into films. She had seen a revival of ""The Boyfriend"" and suggested that Russell direct her in a film version. Russell says he told a journalist as a joke that he was doing it,"
"grander scale, with many dancers in various period costumes and a wide array of classical music references. The scene became famous and was included in the 1974 anthology film ""That's Entertainment!"" ""An Experiment in Modern Music"", the 1924 concert where George Gershwin's ""Rhapsody in Blue"" was premiered, also featured a ""Semi-Symphonic Arrangement of Popular Melodies"", combining three Berlin tunes: ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"", ""A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody"" and ""Orange Blossoms in CA"". The song was used frequently in the annual Miss America pageant prior to 1955, when ""There She Is, Miss America"" by Bernie Wayne became its new"
"copywriter. He then turned to writing special material for vaudeville acts, and then for film studios, ultimately writing complete scores for two movies: ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" and ""Reach for Glory"". The latter film received the Locarno International Film Festival prize in 1962. A number of other movies featured compositions by Russell: ""Affair in Trinidad"" (1952), ""Blue Gardenia"" (1953), ""The Girl Can't Help It"" (1956), ""The Girl Most Likely"" (1957), ""A Matter of WHO"", ""Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd"" (1952), ""Sound Off"" (1952), ""That Midnight Kiss"" (1949), and ""A Ticket to Tomahawk"" (1950). In the movies ""The Girl Most"
"April Love (film) April Love is an American musical directed by Henry Levin and produced by David Weisbart, based on the novel ""Phantom Filly"" by George Agnew Chamberlain (New York, 1941). Photographed in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color by Wilfred M. Cline, it was the fourth most popular movie of 1957 and stars Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Arthur O'Connell, Dolores Michaels, Matt Crowley, Jeanette Nolan and Bradford Jackson. The title song, sung by Boone, went to number one on the Billboard Chart in December 1957 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Nick Conover (Pat Boone), a"
"Let's Be Happy Let's Be Happy is a Technicolor 1957 British musical film starring Tony Martin and Vera-Ellen and directed by Henry Levin. It was written by Dorothy Cooper and Diana Morgan in CinemaScope. This film was an updated remake of ""Jeannie"" (1941), starring Barbara Mullen, which itself was based on the stage play ""Jeannie"" by Aimée Stuart. The movie is notable as star Vera-Ellen's final film; she withdrew from public life after the death of her daughter, Victoria Ellen Rothschild. The film is also Tony Martin's final appearance in a movie musical. He later made a cameo appearance in"
"including telephones provided by Bell. Wilbur then helps Jeff come up with a new song called ""A Castle in the Sky"", allowing the couple to finally leave on their much anticipated honeymoon. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1956 film) Once Upon a Honeymoon is a 1956 American short musical fantasy film sponsored by Bell Telephone. It was directed by Gower Champion, and stars Virginia Gibson, Ward Ellis, Alan Mowbray, Chick Chandler, Veronica Pataky and Russell Hicks. After ""Once Upon a Honeymoon"" was featured and mocked on a 1996 episode of ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"", the short has gained a cult following."
"characters, some drama, a good storyline, a happy ending, it's the kind of film which makes you feel good. I never wanted to make a depressing or immoral film."" The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: April Love (film) April Love is an American musical directed by Henry Levin and produced by David Weisbart, based on the novel ""Phantom Filly"" by George Agnew Chamberlain (New York, 1941). Photographed in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color by Wilfred M. Cline, it was the fourth most popular movie of 1957 and stars Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Arthur O'Connell, Dolores Michaels,"