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The opening Prologue from the 10-time Academy Award winning musical film West Side Story
West Side Story 1961 The setting is the Upper West Side of New York City in the late 1950s. Like many other musicals of its time, Hollywood looked to a successful Broadway stage play for its source material. After her success in Spendor in the Grass, Natalie Wood was chosen for the lead female role, and Richard Beymer, known for his performance in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), took the lead male role. Anita, was played by Rita Moreno. The ground-breaking, dynamic film featured racial strife between rival New York street gangs (Puerto Ricans and white European immigrant families), juvenile delinquency and inner-city problems of the mid-twentieth century - in exhilarating musical and dance form. Some of the film was shot on location in Manhattan, but most of it was actually filmed on sound stages with stylized, artificial studio sets. Its achievement as a ten Oscar winner has only been surpassed by two films, each with eleven Oscars: Ben-Hur (1959) and Titanic (1997).
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A Song Is Born Movie released in 1948
A Song Is Born | 1948
Six years after Howard Hawks made "Ball of Fire" with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, Producer Samuel Goldwyn engaged Hawks to make a new, musical version of the story, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. Kaye plays Professor Hobart Frisbee, a naïve music scholar who, together with six other musicologists, is studying a strange new phenomenon known as jazz. If you like swing or JAZZ, you have got to see this!
from left to right, Charlie Barnet, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, and Lionel Hampton.
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