Tag: Gene Kelly

Singin’ in the Rain – and the magic of Walter Plunkett’s costume design

February 7, 2015 by Vickie Lester

The sketch: The wardrobe continuity book: The publicity still: The scene: . The cake:

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Gene Kelly’s recipe for — the world’s greatest man sandwich

October 24, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Honestly, I couldn’t make this up if I tried:

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Jello shots – with Vickie Lester

January 12, 2014 by Vickie Lester

What? You didn’t think I was serious? Jell-o, a nineteen-twenties aesthetic…and Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters, circa 1928, a naughty, scandalous flapper… Madcap youth! The 1950’s, a changing aesthetic, and Jell-o UNLEASHED: One of my favorite films of all time about the birth of talkies, Singin’ in the Rain, released in 1952 and some astonishingly 1920’s REMINISCENT wardrobe, but the palette, hm… It looks just like Technicolor J— – – And, it’s still one of the sexiest dances in […]

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Gene Kelly – An American In Paris – I Got Rhythm (1951) – for Mae the onetrackmuse.com

December 27, 2013 by Vickie Lester

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Gene Kelly, be still my beating heart, in film that wasn’t a musical… The Cross of Lorraine (1943)

December 27, 2013 by Vickie Lester

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CYD CHARISSE COMMENTS ON DANCING WITH GENE KELLY

November 20, 2013 by Vickie Lester

“If I was black and blue, it was Gene.” Cyd Charisse –

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BODY AS INSTRUMENT – CYD CHARISSE

November 20, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Check in later today to see what Miss Charisse had to say about dancing with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire…

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Dim Sum Sunday at the San Gabriel Mission and 1,000 posts

October 13, 2013 by Vickie Lester

The Mister at the San Gabriel Mission: Visitors to the Mission: From whence the vineyards of California came: As for the 1000th post… It’s just a number, but what it represents is our friendship and dialogue, and for that, treasured readers, thank you.

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A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN…

June 23, 2013 by Vickie Lester

Has completed his portfolio and is packing his “off to Europe” bag to sit for an entrance exam at a school of design… I will be quiet here on blog-world for the next couple of days. Best wishes, my friends! Vickie

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