HOLLYWOOD SINGING & DANCING
Sponsored by La Perla Del Mar
Saturday, March 15 — 2:00pm Downtown Cinemas
A grand historical look at the magic of Hollywood, from past to present.
This brand new film is perhaps the most comprehensive documentary about the Hollywood Musical ever produced. Hosted by Academy Award winning stage, screen and television icon, Shirley Jones, it is a celebration of song and dance in the movies. Following the rise and fall of the Hollywood musical’s popularity, the journey begins with the dawn of sound on film, to the patriotic feel-good musicals of World War II, through the development of the ‘integrated’ musical in which songs became an important story-telling ingredient, and arrives at the genre’s recent resurgence and multi-generational embrace. Fresh, new interviews with stars like Liza Minnelli, Shirley MacLaine, Mickey Rooney, Rita Moreno, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron, Joel Grey and directors Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) and Rob Marshall (Chicago) and many others, give an insider’s insight into the world that helped shape these filmed masterpieces. Director Mark McLaughlin will be in attendance. Documentary. USA. 1 hr. 58 m. Screens with La Liberté de la Interieur.
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