#mervyn warren

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#Take 6 #mervyn warren #Goldmine #a cappella #1988 music #jazz #Youtube

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You Don't Know Nothin' (Live) by For Real

#black women #beauty #acapella #twa #mervyn warren #black woman #denim #1990s #Youtube #for real #90s r&b #soul #90s soul #neo soul #mid 90s #90s fashion #white tshirt #talent

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"Comfort Ye My People" (1992) Daryl Coley & Vanessa Bell Armstrong

This 1992 recording still holds up well. I always thought that this work was a response to Young Messiah. That release was a reworking of Handel's Messiah. It featured only white Christian artists. The Mervyn Warren helmed production takes this classic piece of work and refracts it through the prism of black musical expression. Some of the work has been farmed out to artists like Fred Hammond, Richard Smallwood, George Duke Russell Ferrante, and Sounds of Blackness

On this cut Daryl Cooley and Vanessa Bell Armstrong still sound amazing!

#negrolicity #music #musicians #daryl coley #vanessa bell armstrong #mervyn warren #handel's messiah #Youtube

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching

THREE ON A MATCH Mervyn LeRoy USA, 1932

#watching #Hays Code #pre-code #Mervyn LeRoy #Bette Davis #Joan Blondell #Ann Dvorak #Warren William #1932

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, February 06, 2023. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Saturday, Feb. 11 at noon GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933) Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.

#schedule #mervyn leroy #busby berkeley #orry-kelly #joan blondell #warren william #aline macmahon #ruby keeler #dick powell #guy kibbee #ned sparks #ginger rogers #sterling holloway #ferdinand gottschalk

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The Railway Children (1970) Lionel Jeffries

October 1st 2022

#the railway children #1970 #lionel jeffries #jenny agutter #sally thomsett #gary warren #bernard cribbins #dinah sheridan #william mervyn #iain cuthbertson #peter bromilow #gordon whiting

[krisrowland]

Gold Digger (1933) explainer - including a man who voiced Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, Joan Blondell who cameoed in Grease, we’re in the Money and some great context to it’s poltical crtiique of unpaid world war soliders.

Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-Code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell, and features Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers.

#Gold diggers #1933 #the great depression #joan blondell #Warren William #Busby Berkeley #Aline MacMahon #Ruby Keeler #musical #film #choreography #dance #Dick Powell #Guy Kibbee #ned sparks #ginger rogers #Mervyn LeRoy #Harry Warren #Al Dubin #warner brothers

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Recommendations 81-85:

81. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933), dir. Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley

“THE BIGGEST SHOW ON EARTH!

Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.”

Availability: Can be rented via AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

82. LA BAMBA (1987), dir. Luis Valdez

“BORN INTO POVERTY. DESTINED FOR STARDOM. HE LIVED THE AMERICAN DREAM.

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock ’n’ roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called “Donna” that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.”

Availability: Can be streamed via Starz with a subscription and also available for rental through VUDU, AppleTV, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

83. THE FOG OF WAR (2003), dir. Errol Morris

“Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company’s president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.”

Availability: Can be rented via AppleTV, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

84. I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (1932), dir. Mervyn LeRoy

“SIX STICKS OF DYNAMITE THAT BLASTED HIS WAY TO FREEDOM … AND AWOKE AMERICA’S CONSCIENCE!

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.”

Availability: Available for rental via AppleTV, VUDU, Amazon, and GooglePlay.

85. INHERIT THE WIND (1960), dir. Stanley Kramer

“IT’S ALL ABOUT THE FABULOUS “MONKEY TRIAL” THAT ROCKED AMERICA!

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin’s theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.”

Availability: Can be rented through GooglePlay, AppleTV, VUDU, and Amazon.

[The American Experience Film Recs]

#Film #Gold Diggers of 1933 #La Bamba #The Fog of War #I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang #Inherit the Wind #Mervyn LeRoy #Busby Berkeley #Joan Blondell #Aline McMahon #Ruby Keeler #Dick Powell #Warren William #Guy Kibee #Ginger Rogers #Eric Blore #Luis Valdez #Ritchie Valens #Lou Diamond Phillips #Elizabeth Peña #Rosanna DeSoto #Esai Morales #Errol Morris #documentary #vietnam war #Robert McNamara #Paul Muni #Glenda Farrell #Preston Foster #Stanley Kramer

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42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)

Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers, George Brent, Ned Sparks. Screenplay: Rian James, James Seymour, based on a novel by Bradford Ropes. Cinematography: Sol Polito. Art direction: Jack Okey. Film editing: Thomas Pratt, Frank Ware. Songs: Al Dubin, Harry Warren. Costume design: Orry-Kelly. Choreography: Busby Berkeley.  42nd Street is only mildly naughty, bawdy, or sporty, as the lyrics of Al Dubin and Harry Warren's title song would have it, but once Busby Berkeley takes over to stage the three production numbers at the movie's end, it is certainly gaudy. What naughtiness and bawdiness it contains would not have been there at all once the Production Code went into effect a year or so later. It's doubtful that Ginger Rogers's character would have been called "Anytime Annie" once the censors clamped down, or that anyone would say of her, "She only said 'no' once and then she didn't hear the question." Or that it would be so clear that Dorothy Brock (Bebe Daniels) is the mistress of foofy old moneybags Abner Dillon (Guy Kibbee). Or that there would be so many crotch shots of the chorus girls, including the famous tracking shot between their legs in Busby Berkeley's "Young and Healthy" number. Although it's often remembered as a Busby Berkeley musical, it's mostly a Lloyd Bacon movie, and while Bacon is not a name to conjure with these days, he does a splendid job of keeping the non-musical part of the film moving along satisfactorily. It helps that he has a strong lead in Warner Baxter as the tough, self-destructive stage director Julian Marsh, balanced by such skillful wisecrackers as Rogers, Una Merkel, and Ned Sparks. But it's a blessing that this archetypal backstage musical became a prime showcase for Berkeley's talents. Dick Powell's sappy tenor has long been out of fashion, and Ruby Keeler keeps anxiously glancing at her feet while she's dancing, but Berkeley's sleight-of-hand keeps our attention away from their faults. Nor does anyone really care that his famous overhead shots that turn dancers into kaleidoscope patterns would not be visible to an audience in a real theater. In the "42nd Street" number, Berkeley also introduces his characteristic dark side: Amid all the song and dance celebrating the street, we witness a near-rape and a murder. It's a dramatic twist that Berkeley would repeat with even greater effect in his masterpiece, the "Lullaby of Broadway" number from Gold Diggers of 1935. Berkeley's serious side, along with the somewhat downbeat ending showing an exhausted Julian Marsh, alone and ignored amid the hoopla, help remind us that the studio that made 42nd Street, Warner Bros., was also known for social problem movies like I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) and the gangster classics of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Edward G. Robinson.

#42nd Street #Lloyd Bacon

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At The End Of The Day (Grace)

Quincy Jones · Toots Thielemans · Barry White · Mervyn Warren

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Mervyn LeRoy’s THREE ON A MATCH, starring Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak, and Bette Davis, hit theaters 90 years ago today (10/29/32) #OnThisDay

#joan blondell #ann dvorak #bette davis #warren william

[blessedpromises]

#I am walking down the aisle to this song!! #Wedding Songs Night #I'm just daydreaming here #SoundCloud

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Whitney Houston ft Mervyn Warren of Take 6 - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (A... https://youtu.be/tsyqZpNW_Ko?si=OTG-Y2Fk5znnjtd3

#Youtube

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Birthdays 10.15

Beer Birthdays

Doug Odell (1952)

Julie Nickels (1959)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michel Foucault; philosopher, historian (1926)

Friedrich Nietzsche; German philosopher (1844)

Jim Palmer; Baltimore Orioles P (1945)

James Tissot; French artist (1836)

P.G. Wodehouse; English writer (1881)

Famous Birthdays

Italo Calvino; Italian writer (1923)

Richard Carpenter; pop singer (1946)

Chris De Burgh; rock singer (1948)

Sarah Ferguson; British royalty (1959)

John Kenneth Galbraith; economist (1908)

Samuel Adams Holyoke; composer (1762)

Lee Iacocca; businessman, Pinto-maker & apologist (1924)

Helen Hunt Jackson; writer (1830)

Tito Jackson; pop singer (1953)

Emerill Lagasse; chef (1959)

Linda Lavin; actor (1937)

Mervyn LeRoy; film director (1900)

Penny Marshall; actor, film director (1942)

Warren Miller; sports film director (1924)

Stacy Peralta; skateboarder, film director (1957)

Jean Peters; actor (1926)

Mario Puzo; writer (1921)

Tanya Roberts; actor (1955)

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; historian (1917)

Bruno Senna; Braziliam race car driver (1983)

C.P. Snow; English writer, physicist (1905)

John L. Sullivan; boxer (1858)

Virgil; Roman writer (70 C.E.)

#Birthdays

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Musical Monday: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) – Musical #146 Studio: Warner Bros. Director: Busby Berkeley and Mervyn Leroy Starring: Warren…

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#1930s musicals #Busby Berkeley #dick powell #Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler #Musical Monday #Ruby Keeler

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@tcmparty live tweet schedule for the week beginning Monday, May 2, 2022. Look for us on Twitter…watch and tweet along…remember to add #TCMParty to your tweets so everyone can find them :) All times are Eastern.

Monday, May 2 at 9:45 p.m.

GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933)

Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.

#schedule #mervyn leroy #warren william #joan blondell #aline macmahon #ruby keeler #dick powell #guy kibbee #ned sparks #ginger rogers #sterling holloway #billy barty #charles lane #lilyan tashman #louise beavers #william bakewell #classic movies #classic film #musical #warner bros #tcm party #live tweet #turner classic movies