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5 April 2013

Fox to release “The I Don’t Care Girl” (1953) on DVD

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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.

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“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.” [...]

12 December 2010

Judy Garland doesn’t care, and I don’t care either!

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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. [...]

6 August 2010

Mitzi Gaynor fabulous in Jack Cole’s “I Don’t Care”

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I’m loving Jack Cole’s choreography for Mitzi Gaynor in “The I Don’t Care Girl” from 20th Century Fox in 1953.

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