We love the women of TCM Classic Film Festival 2013

28 April 2013

We love the women of TCM Classic Film Festival 2013

Category: Film | Tags: barrie chase, cari beauchamp, hollywood history, ileanna douglas, jane fonda, marge champion, mitzi gaynor, robert osborne, tcm classic film festival, tcm fest 2013, tippi hedren

Another TCM Fest, another year celebrating the strong, great women of the classic film community. [...]

25 April 2013

Mitzi Gaynor, a smart, sassy survivor, converses with Robert Osborne to open TCM Fest 2013 in Hollywood

Category: Film | Tags: mitzi gaynor, robert osborne, tcm classic film festival, tcm fest, tcm fest 2013

slideshow of mitzi gaynor interviewed by robert osborne at tcm fest 2013 [...]

5 April 2013

Twentieth Century-Fox to release “The I Don’t Care Girl” (1953) showcasing Jack Cole’s choreographic genius, on DVD April 8

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: choreography by jack cole, jack cole, mitzi gaynor, tcm, the i don't care girl, ucla film & television archive

Huzzah! Now everyone can see Jack Cole’s killer choreography when 20th Century-Fox releases “The I Don’t Care Girl” on DVD April 8, 2013. [...]

6 August 2012

The great Mitzi Gaynor recalls Jack Cole, courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: jack cole, mitzi gaynor, the i don't care girl, ucla film & television archive

A wild night at the Hammer Museum as Mitzi Gaynor appeared at a screening of THE I DON’T CARE GIRL, a film she made at Twentieth Century Fox studios at the age of 20. [...]

4 August 2012

Jack Cole’s 3 dance masterpieces from “The I Don’t Care Girl”

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: jack cole, marc wilder, matt mattox, mitzi gaynor, oscar levant, the i don't care girl, ucla film & television archive

Take a youtube tour (of dubious quality) through Jack Cole’s three great dance numbers from “The I Don’t Care Girl.” [...]

21 June 2012

Jack Cole, the camera’s eye, and the space of the soundstage

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: emma lew thomas, hollywood history, jack cole, kay kendell, ladies in waiting, les girls, mitzi gaynor, taina elg, the i don't care girl

Cole split the space of the frame, fissuring it like an atom bomb, like a Pollack painting, like a Cunningham dance, He splintered it, divided it, dappled it with activity from all sides. [...]

21 June 2012

I do care that you get tickets for “The I Don’t Care Girl” screening August 4

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: hammer museum, jack cole, mitzi gaynor, the i don't care girl, ucla film & television archive

A hot ticket … Mitzi Gaynor, who danced ballistically in this movie at age 20, will be in the house. [...]

17 June 2012

Jack Cole’s magic for Mitzi Gaynor on view in rare screening of “The I Don’t Care Girl” by UCLA Film & Television Archive August 4. Gaynor to appear in-person.

Category: Dance, Film | Tags: hollywood history, jack cole, larry billman, mitzi gaynor, shannon kelley, the i don't care girl, ucla film & television archive

“The I Don’t Care Girl” is a cult classic not for the film itself but for three superlative dance sequences embedded within it: “I Don’t Care,” “Beale Street” and “The Johnson Rag.” [...]

4 June 2012