Jayne Mansfield bares almost all (and became the first Hollywood actress to do so) in this nearly universally panned sex comedy from the early 1960s. In the story, poor Sandy is desperate to get pregnant. Unfortunately, her husband, a television script writer, is too wound up over his high stress job to make love to her at night even though he too ...
Jerry Lewis, plays a third-rate USO magician named Gilbert Woolley, working the Far East circuit with his pet rabbit Harry. Nearly fired for accidentally humiliating haughty movie star Marie McDonald, Gilbert's career is salvaged by kindly Japanese aristocrat Sessue Hayakawa; it seems that Gilbert is the only person who is able to make Sessue's ...
It's a Pleasure was the third release from International Pictures, the feisty independent that would later merge with Universal. Skating sensation Sonja Henie does her usual as ice-show star Chris Linden, who falls in love with hockey champ Don Martin (Michael O'Shea). A combative, troublesome sort, Martin is barred from hockey for life thanks to ...
Despite MGM's insistence that star Gene Kelly, just returning from military service in 1947, appear exclusively in big-budget Technicolor musicals, maverick director Gregory La Cava showcased Kelly in the modest black and white tunefest Living in a Big Way. Kelly is cast as an ex-GI who discovers that his wealthy war bride (Marie McDonald) is an ...
Gilbert and Sullivan's farcical take on feudal Japan is given a lavish staging in this production, recorded during a performance of a 1990 adaptation by the Australian Opera. Featuring Robert Eddie, Peter Cousens, and Heather Begg, this staging of The Mikado was directed by Christopher Renshaw, with Andrew Greene conducting The Elizabethan Sydney ...
The Opera Australia mounted this production of Gioachino Rossini's 1817 Cinderella (aka La Cenerentola), in 1987. Though the opera itself generally follows the dramatic arc of the original Cinderella story, Rossini distinguished himself via his insistence on omitting fantasy elements and thus creating a more plausible tale. This particular version ...
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