14 September 2011
Recreates the atmosphere, and quotes from a review, from Jack Cole’s nightclub days at Rockefeller Center’s Rainbow Room, 1942. [...]
30 April 2011
My first night at TCM Fest featured my first viewing of Stanley Donen’s “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” especially fun since Jacques d’Amboise was just in Los Angeles on a book talk and he spoke a lot about making the film. [...]
14 April 2011
One of Jack Cole’s faithful film and nightclub male dancers, George Martin, died in Atlanta. Martin kept the flame burning for Cole over the past decades and we are grateful. [...]
7 April 2011
A nine-pack of vintage Jack Cole photos for your viewing pleasure. [...]
7 January 2011
A wonderful photo showing choreographer Jack Cole Marilyn Monroe on-set for the “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” number in “Let’s Make Love.”(1960) [...]
4 January 2011
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25 December 2010
Film zany Michael Schlesinger enjoyed teasing me with a Christmas contribution to arts•meme: a top-ten list of things choreographer Jack Cole liked about Christmas. [...]
12 December 2010
I love the insouciant song written for vaudevillian Eva Tanguay in 1906, “I Don’t Care.” It’s my theme song. Here Judy Garland sings it. [...]
5 December 2010
Dance on film is in the zeitgeist. There’s been praise — little from me — for Natalie Portman’s run at ballet in BLACK SWAN. Let’s look at what Jack Cole does for Betty Grable in THREE FOR THE SHOW. [...]
25 November 2010
Jack Cole’s extraordinary dance career, which ended in Los Angeles as a beloved dance instructor at UCLA, had its start as a Denishawn dancer, and soon thereafter as one of Ted Shawn’s Male Dancers, visiting in 1931, Shawn’s nascent Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. [...]
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