On the Town 4th of July

We’re goin’ On the Town (1949) for a Happy 4th of July 2015!

Happy landings … Betty Garrett, Frank Sinatra … Ann Miller, Jules Munshin … Vera-Ellen, Gene Kelly …

Bye, boys … We’ll write you every day …

Searched high and low for a good On the Town Statue of Liberty photo … Leave it to our German compatriots … Here’s The Lady in a movie program for Das ist New York! / That’s New York! … Heut gehn wir bummeln / Today we go strolling … Notice anything strange on the left? … The guys the gals are kissin’ look like stand-ins!

Betty Garrett … my favorite … ever optimistic …

She dreamt they’d all get back together … and she was right! … on the cover of Screen Stories, January 1950 … Those wonderful days when a movie magazine was only 15 cents … Look who’s got the biggest picture … Betty and Frank!

Best of all, On the Town was on TCM this morning (3:15 am) as I wrote this post … Perfect inspiration!

One more for the road … Gene, Jules and Frank … recording the soundtrack … What guys! What gobs! What men!

Scar Ist Deutsch?!

November 24, 2014 — The Searchers, 1956 … my favorite Western … I’ve seen it a million times … Inspired me to go to Monument Valley 6 times … After all these years, I finally looked up the actor who played Scar … Henry Brandon … German … His parents emigrated to the US shortly after he was born …

Alexander D’Arcy

October 22, 2014 –– Topper Takes a Trip, 1938 – Topper geht auf Reisen

Carrying on the swimming trunks motif … Alexander and Arleen Whelan [his wife]; Ann Rutherford and [?] “at splash party consisting of 20 friends of movie actor John Hubbard on 5 acres of lawn at the estate of Sam Berch, Pres. of Arden Dairies” … August 1940 …