Jane Powell: The life and career of MGM golden-voiced soprano Jane Powell is explored in her starring roles in MGM’s Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and ’50s.
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Golden Age of Hollywood
What’s Your Favorite Jane Powell Performance?
Jane Powell, the charismatic actress a who helped bring several of Hollywood’s best movie musicals to life, died last week at the age of 92. From Seven Brides for Seven Brothers to Royal Wedding and beyond, Powell always delivered performances…
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This year MovieFanFare celebrates its tenth anniversary, and to celebrate we will be rolling out several surprises and new features throughout 2019. To start off, we want to showcase a new kind of Open Thread feature dedicated entirely to Tinseltown’s…
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Beautiful Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke) was the daughter of teachers who didn’t really want to teach. When lovely Lucile showed a talent for acting and became a semifinalist in a Motion Picture Magazine beauty contest, papa packed up…
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Movie Poll: Who’s Your Favorite “Golden Age” (1930-60) Actress?
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Old Movies For Young People
Every month I show an old movie to a bunch of twentysomethings (like me). Sometimes it goes over well and other times…not so well. So I thought I’d put together a list of the movies that have been well received by…
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