It`s Always Fair Weather (1955) |
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It`s Always Fair Weather Cast |
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Gene Kelly
with Cyd Charisse
(as Jackie Leighton)
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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1956] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Academy Awards [1956] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Academy Awards [1956] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryCooked up by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, It`s Always Fair Weather could well have been titled On the Town Ten Years Later. Like 1949`s On the Town (also a Comden/Green collaboration), this MGM musical follows the exploits of three servicemen buddi... DiscographySinglesBaby, You Knock Me Out Stillman`s Gym I Like Myself Saturation-Wise Music Is Better Than Words Why Are We Here? Thanks a Lot, but No Thanks Once Upon a Time The Time for Parting March, March |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Ted Riley: I`m mixed up with some of the shadiest characters in town. As a matter of fact, knowing the inspiring and uplifting work you do on this program, I - I feel terrible showing my face in decent homes across the country. Boys, don`t be like me. Live clean. Use Klenzrite. Jackie Leighton: But, Ted, aren`t you in terrible danger?
Ted Riley: Yeah. Yeah, I`m in terrible danger. I`m in danger of believing that look on your face. Doug Hallerton: Somebody stole my moustache. Fielding, I want that moustache returned, every hair in place. Doug Hallerton: There must be some more dignified way to sell Klenzrite... like you, taking a bath in it, stark naked in Macy`s window. Ted Riley: Look lady, if you`ll excuse, you don`t have to hang around with me all evening. I wish I didn`t have to hang around with myself. Madeline Bradville: We had something so wonderful, a totally reformed drunkard who was going to tell us his inspiring story.
Jackie Leighton: Yes, but he got drunk. Kid Mariacchi: Where do you have to go?
Ted Riley: Tim`s Bar on Third Avenue. It`s a long way from here.
Kid Mariacchi: You`re nuts. It`s ten minutes.
Ted Riley: No, it`s ten years.Trivia Dolores Gray`s "Thanks a Lot But no Thanks" is the greatest femme-fatale musical number. She uses glamour as a weapon in this spoof of the power of the devastating female over the hapless male. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen had numerous and bitter disagreements about the direction of the movie. The making of "It`s Always Fair Weather" was the last time they worked together. Oscar winner Helen Rose designed the costumes for this picture. Her greatest challenge was Dolores Gray`s red-beaded, dyed fox, slit, dress. It was meant to look slinky and sexy for the "Thanks a Lot But No Thanks" number. The picture was a financial disappointment. Some film historians cite this failure as prime evidence that the original Hollywood musical had begun to lose its box-office clout around 1955. Betty Comden and Adolph Green originally conceived this musical as a sequel to their smash, On the Town (1949), having the new film reunite Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin. The concept was changed somewhat because was Mr. Sinatra was unavailable to reprise his role. From the André Previn, Betty Comden and Adolph Green score, three numbers have been restored on the DVD from Warner Home Video: footage of a Gene Kelly-Cyd Charisse comic-hoofing duet, "Love Is Nothing but a Racket;" film of Michael Kidd entertaining his three movie kids with "Jack and the Space Giants;" and audio of Dolores Gray`s "I Thought They Would Never Leave." Also included as a DVD extra is some previously unseen material from the famed garbage-pale dance, "The Binge," teaming Kelly, Kidd and Dan Dailey. | ||
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