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3 de jul. de 2015 · But Walters remains an elusive, largely forgotten figure. Born in Pasadena in 1911, he was first a successful Broadway hoofer, with bigger aspirations, who returned to California to become an integral part of the revolution in musicals that was happening at MGM in the 1940s, eventually directing triumphs like “Good News,” “Easter Parade ...
Glass Slipper, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Son Of The Cook More than 40-minutes into the feature, in a sequence dreamed up by servant girl “Ella” (Leslie Caron), who’s been told that Prince Charles (Michael Wilding) is just “the son of the cook of the palace of the duke,” she joins the first dance number, Charles Walters directing, dance by Roland Petit for Ballet de Paris, in MGM’s ...
31 de ene. de 2015 · This fascinates me! There is a wonderful photo in the book of Charles Walters and Tony Martin filming a scene for Easy to Love (1953). Mirroring each other, Walters and Martin simultaneously do an open armed gesture as Martin sings and performs for the camera. This style of directing was definitely influenced by Walters’ background as a dancer.
"Charles Walters is a conundrum. The director of two classic musicals - Easter Parade (1948) and High Society (1956) - he is rarely referred to as a great director, and is certainly not in the class of Vincente Minnelli. The explanation, perhaps, lies in the fact that these enduringly popular films were made under the aegis of producer Arthur ...
Charles Walters. (Film Director, Choreographer) Charles Walters was a Hollywood choreographer and film director. He was known for the comedies and musicals that he worked on since 1940s through the 1960s for ‘Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’ Studios Inc (‘MGM’), the famous American media company. He remained a dancer himself who choreographed ...
Charles Walters was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s. He was born in Pasadena, California, and educated at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is notable for directing Esther Williams' musicals involving underwater swimming and diving sequences, […]
25 de abr. de 2017 · "[A] lively biography. . . Charles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance is really a backstager, opening a curtain on a veritable musical factory, where the workers were all experts and the product a lesson in self-confidence."―Ethan Mordden, Wall Street Journal "An extremely significant contribution to film scholarships, full of very precise detail about Walters' multifarious ...
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