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German postcard by Kunst und Bild, Berlin, no. A 961. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Cyd Charisse (1921-2008) was born to be a dancer. She became one of the top female dancers in the golden era of the musical. Her films include Singin’ in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon (1954) and Silk Stockings (1957). She…
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German postcard by Kunst und Bild, Berlin, no. A 190. Photo: Keystone. ‘Hollywood’s Mermaid’, Esther Williams (1921-2013), swam her way through more than a dozen splashy MGM musicals in the 1940s and early 1950s. While smiling at the camera, she was able to do a combination of crawl, breast and backstroke, and was forever blowing…
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German postcard by Kunst und Bild, no. A 444. Photo: RKO Radio Film. Publicity still for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. MacLeod, 1947). Danny Kaye (1911-1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes and tongue-twisting songs. He left school at the age of…
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