http://screensaversmovies.com/birthday-bride 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery Sat, 19 May 2012 22:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://screensaversmovies.com/birthday-bride/comment-page-1#comment-209 Alex Anisimow Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:52:56 +0000 http://screensaversmovies.com/?p=636#comment-209 Happy birthday to the amazing Jane Powell. Happy birthday to the amazing Jane Powell.

]]> http://screensaversmovies.com/birthday-bride/comment-page-1#comment-208 John DiLeo Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:18:28 +0000 http://screensaversmovies.com/?p=636#comment-208 Both those musicals showed us the womanly Jane Powell, a persona she barely got to explore before the movie musical genre died out when she was 28! At least she got to express herself with a few adult roles and was able to go beyond the teen years of A DATE WITH JUDY. Both those musicals showed us the womanly Jane Powell, a persona she barely got to explore before the movie musical genre died out when she was 28! At least she got to express herself with a few adult roles and was able to go beyond the teen years of A DATE WITH JUDY.

]]> http://screensaversmovies.com/birthday-bride/comment-page-1#comment-206 Mark Kirby Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:28:19 +0000 http://screensaversmovies.com/?p=636#comment-206 Yes, happy birthday, dear Jane! SEVEN BRIDES is one of my top-five musicals of all time and has been most of my life. Powell is so good in this. My other favorite Powell performance is in an unjustly forgotten musical, THE GIRL MOST LIKELY (1957), the last movie released by RKO, and not a bad swan song, either. Powell plays a woman who can't decide between three suitors (the film is a musical remake of the 1941 Ginger Rogers TOM, DICK, AND HARRY) and she's charming. There are some delightful songs and Kaye Ballard as her wisecracking friend, is great. An actor named Kelly Brown is quite good here, too. (He teams up with Ballard.) Anyway, off subject a bit, but BRIDES and GIRL make a great Jane Powell double feature! Yes, happy birthday, dear Jane! SEVEN BRIDES is one of my top-five musicals of all time and has been most of my life. Powell is so good in this. My other favorite Powell performance is in an unjustly forgotten musical, THE GIRL MOST LIKELY (1957), the last movie released by RKO, and not a bad swan song, either. Powell plays a woman who can’t decide between three suitors (the film is a musical remake of the 1941 Ginger Rogers TOM, DICK, AND HARRY) and she’s charming. There are some delightful songs and Kaye Ballard as her wisecracking friend, is great. An actor named Kelly Brown is quite good here, too. (He teams up with Ballard.) Anyway, off subject a bit, but BRIDES and GIRL make a great Jane Powell double feature!

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