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Pal Joey (1957) Pal Joey isn't a classic film and doesn't offer much that can't be found in the plots of about a jillion other films. Pal Joey appears both in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and in a fullscreen version on this double-sided, single-layered DVD; the letterboxed edition has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions. Granted, as is typical in these kinds of films, it's never terribly apparent why Joey favors Linda instead of all the other women who fawn over him - though I suspect the fact she doesn't fawn may play a part - but Novak seems so appealing that we don't question this decision. www.dvdmg.com /paljoey.shtml   (1047 words)

Pal Joey (1957) However, I'm also well acquainted with PAL JOEY in its stage form, and this watered down film doesn't serve it well. PAL JOEY was one of the first shows to bring cynicism to the musical stage. Goofs: Continuity: In the beginning of the film, Joey is led by two policemen who hold him by his arms. us.imdb.com /Title?0050815   (535 words)

MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Pal Joey The play's cynicism was emblazoned by the celebrated performance of Gene Kelly as the heel Joey Evans Kelly would be replaced in the film by Frank Sinatra, not a bad choice, but the thing has no real dramatic tension in this apparently bowdlerized version of the play. Rita Hayworth is Vera Simpson, Frank Sinatra is Joey Evans, Kim Novak is Linda English, the key roles in this very disappointing film of the Rodgers and Hart musical with a hard-edged book by John O'Hara. New Search More info on Pal Joey at The Internet Movie Database www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=3717   (196 words)

THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- PAL JOEY PAL JOEY comes with a two-channel Dolby Digital monaural soundtrack that sounds wonderful for a film over forty years old. PAL JOEY was originally released in glorious Technicolor, however the element used for the transfer sometimes appears too muted to be an IB print. PAL JOEY is an amusing little musical that features songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, including the standards Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, The Lady is a Tramp, My Funny Valentine and There's A Small Hotel (all beautifully arranged by Nelson Riddle). www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/pal-joey-dvd.htm   (774 words)

Pal Joey (1957) The trailer for Pal Joey is amusing, featuring Sinatra on the movie set, describing the film and defining some of the various "hip" terms used in the musical. Pal Joey is the kind of gleeful, larger-than-life movie where the woman slaps the man before he kisses her, then wakes up the next morning with her cheeks all rosy, singing while she rolls around on her bed. Pal Joey is presented in both widescreen (1.85:1) and full-screen versions on this DVD release. www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=2751&PID=10075564&Tab=reviews&CID=18   (497 words)

TechnoFILE Reviews "Pal Joey" on DVD Columbia Classics' "Pal Joey" is a relatively minor musical in the Hollywood galaxy, but it's an entertaining film with good performances from some heavyweight stars and some nice music from Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart. Joey's other major conquest in "Pal Joey" is the wealthy socialite widow ex-stripper (Rita Hayworth), who he convinces to bankroll his dream of opening his own night club. While "Pal Joey" isn't up to the "BIG" standard of such classic Hollywood musicals as Oklahoma!, The Music Man, Oliver, or My Fair Lady, it's still a pleasant movie experience fans of this genre and these stars will undoubtely enjoy. www.technofile.com /dvds/pal_joey.html   (393 words)

Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] PAL JOEY's original source was John O'Hara's series of fictional "letters," published in the New Yorker, from a mythical dancer who signed all the missives, "Your Pal Joey." O'Hara was approached by producer George Abbott, who talked him into adapting the stories into a book for a musical. In this bowdlerized film adaptation, Joey is not a dancer but a singer. When Joey and the band (led by real-life bandleader Bobby Sherwood) are booked for a private soiree at the posh home of wealthy widow Vera (Rita Hayworth), Joey recognizes her as a former stripper. online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=10064   (378 words)

Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Pal Joey [1957] However, Pal Joey the film remains delightfully watchable for two very good reasons: a terrific song score and a surplus of glittering star power. 'Pal Joey' is 1 to 1:85, while the theatrical release was 1 to 2:35, which is noticable in some scenes, for instance a board with 'International settlements' on is shown as 'nternational settlement' (sic). The eponymous Pal Joey, born in the pages of The New Yorker then translated into a hit Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical, had undergone quite a transformation by the time he hit the movies in 1957. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009V8XT   (1182 words)

Miami Beach Police Athletic League Joey will be attending the Florida State University Film School in the fall, and was accepted into the FSU Community Service Scholar Program to continue his commitment to community service. Joey Daoud, PAL Kid, was invited to the set of Director Brett Ratner's next movie X-Men 3. PAL was given 185 tickets by Board Member Steve Stowe who works for the Miami Heat Foundation and Miami Beach PAL President Ken Stowe. www.beachpal.org   (928 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Pal Joey (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD However, Pal Joey the film remains delightfully watchable for two very good reasons: a terrific song score and a surplus of glittering star power. 'Pal Joey' is 1 to 1:85, while the theatrical release was 1 to 2:35, which is noticable in some scenes, for instance a board with 'International settlements' on is shown as 'nternational settlement' (sic). The eponymous Pal Joey, born in the pages of The New Yorker then translated into a hit Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical, had undergone quite a transformation by the time he hit the movies in 1957. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0767821807   (1207 words)

Playbill News: Irene Manning, a Soprano Seen in Stock, London, Films and on Broadway, Dead at 91 In the years that followed she toured the U.S. as Anna in The King and I and Vera in Pal Joey and appeared in Everybody Loves Opal, The Tattooed Countess (in New York City) and Holiday for Lovers. Irene Manning, an actress, soprano and writer who appeared in musicals and operettas in London, in stock and on Broadway, died May 28 at her home in California, according to The New York Times. She was married three times, according to her bio: First to television producer and writer Het Manheim, Clinton Green and Maxwell White Hunter II, a rocket engineer. www.playbill.com /news/article/86743.html   (1207 words)

Amazon.com: With a Song In My Heart (from the 1952 film)/ Pal Joey (with 1952 cast members): Music This Jane Froman package features the 1952 Broadway Revival of "Pal Joey" (where Jane provided the lead vocals for Vivienne Segal) along with the original soundtrack to "With Song in My Heart" - the 1952 film starring Susan Hayward in the life story of Jane Forman (Jane provided vocals for the film). Froman's greatness is celebrated in this new 2-on-1 album, which comprises the film soundtrack of WITH A SONG IN MY HEART as well as the 1952 Broadway revival cast album of PAL JOEY. Amazon.com: With a Song In My Heart (from the 1952 film)/ Pal Joey (with 1952 cast members): Music www.jalvo.us /buy-22785816980707194835   (1017 words)

village voice > film > Miss Sadie Thompson by Melissa Anderson Four years would pass before Hayworth appeared in another film, this time eclipsed by rising Columbia starlet Kim Novak in Pal Joey. The earlier film boasted a divinely louche Joan Crawford as a strumpet stuck on Pago Pago for a week in between ships; Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson is not so much a doxy as she is a gal with moxie. Although its Hays Code sanitizing is mitigated somewhat by the glorious extravagances of 1950s cinema (it's a Technicolor, 3-D star vehicle with musical numbers), Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) is a scoured version of Rain (1932), also based on W. Somerset Maugham's tale of a wanton woman. www.radio.villagevoice.com /film/0051,anderson,20832,20.html   (307 words)

dOc DVD Review: Cover Girl (1944) Instead, there are three trailers including plugs for two of Rita's best: Her go-round with Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey and the still smolderingly sexy Gilda. Before Rita Hayworth became one of the 1940s' quintessential femme fatales in films like Gilda, the Brooklyn-born beauty looked to be on the verge of becoming the next big thing in movie musicals. Even if the musical numbers would have faltered, Cover Girl would still earn more than a cursory reference book mention, given its first-time teaming of uncredited choreographer Stanley Donen and Kelly, inaugurating a partnership that would give the genre some of its most shining moments in years to come. www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4984   (950 words)

Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Search / Movie details / Melvin Goes to Dinner Melvin (played by Blieden, also the film's editor) is a slightly neurotic shut-in who's romantically involved with a woman his sister Leslie (Maura Tierney) describes as a ''malignant tumor.'' When he unintentionally phones his friend Joey (Matt Price), a jaded corporate manager he hasn't seen in months, Joey invites him to dinner. Skittish Melvin is reluctant at first but finally agrees, and soon finds himself in the company of Alex (Stephanie Courtney), a brassy gal pal and former business-school classmate of Joey's, and beautiful Sarah (Annabelle Gurwitch), an old friend Alex bumps into outside the boite and drags inside. The obvious model for ''Melvin Goes to Dinner,'' Bob Odenkirk's feature film directorial debut, is Louis Malle's 1981 film ''My Dinner With Andre,'' in which real-life theatrical friends Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory chat about weighty spiritual matters at a New York City restaurant. www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=2451   (950 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Video: Pal Joey [1957] Novak was one of the loveliest and most underrated stars to ever grace the silver screen, and this was her second film with Sinatra, having done the dramatic "The Man with the Golden Arm" two years earlier. The film also benefits from location shooting in San Francisco, caught in the moonlight-and-supper-club glow of the late 50s. The film also benefits from location shooting in San Francisco, caught in the moonlight-and-supper-club glow of the late 1950s. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CJP2   (950 words)

O'Hara, John --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article Among them are the popular novels Appointment in Samarra (1934); Butterfield 8 (1935; film, 1960); Pal Joey (1940), adapted as a musical; Ten North Frederick (1955; film, 1958); and From the Terrace (1958; film, 1960). His works stand as a social history of upwardly mobile Americans of the 1920s through the 1940s. concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?eu=399233   (950 words)

Classic Movies High Society (1956 Film)/ Can-Can (1960 Film)/ Pal Joey (1957 Film) High Society (1956) Gallery at Beam of Classics www.thegoldenyears.org /society.html   (950 words)

Amazon.com: Music: High Society (1956 Film) / Can-Can (1960 Film) / Pal Joey (1957 Film) [BOX SET] [SOUNDTRACK] [IMPORT] High Society (1956 Film) / Can-Can (1960 Film) / Pal Joey (1957 Film) [BOX SET] [SOUNDTRACK] [IMPORT] "Can-Can", released in 1960, comes with an all-star cast featuring Maurice Chevalier, Shirley MacLaine and Louis Jourdan. Definitely all performances heard here are the ones heard in the movie (with a few lines edited off or on), except "You're Sensational", which has been re-recorded at Capitol studios. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006T55?v=glance   (1777 words)

Kenny Drew - Pal Joey: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Music.com With bassist Wilbur Ware [+] and drummer Philly Joe Jones [+], Drew interprets eight Rodgers and Hart tunes, five written for the play Pal Joey and three of their earlier hits that were included in the film version. Kenny Drew - Pal Joey: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Kenny Drew - Pal Joey: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more www.music.com /release/pal_joey/5   (238 words)

Gene Kelly at Reel Classics After success on Broadway in "Pal Joey," Kelly made his screen debut for MGM alongside Judy Garland and George Murphy in FOR ME AND MY GAL (1942). Kelly with another famous Hollywood dance sensation, Vera-Ellen, in ON THE TOWN (1949), a film Kelly co-directed with Stanley Donen. And though better known for his dancing than his singing, Kelly nevertheless outdistanced all other male movie vocalists in the American Film Institute's 2004 poll of the 100 Greatest Movie Songs, singing five of the list's top 100. www.reelclassics.com /Actors/Kelly/kelly.htm   (552 words)

Barbara Nichols at Brian's Drive-In Theater Throughout the remainder of the 1950s, Nichols acted in a string of A and B pictures, such as Pal Joey (1957; with Frank Sinatra) and The Naked and the Dead (1958; with Aldo Ray). Nichols' film career began to run out of steam by the mid 1960s; taking on roles in low-budget films, she acted in such films as House of Women (1962; with Constance Ford and Jeanne Cooper) and The Human Duplicators (1965; with George Nader and Hugh Beaumont). Getting good notices, Nichols was ast in a small role in her first film, The Wild Party (1956; with Carol Ohmart). www.briansdriveintheater.com /barbaranichols.html   (1624 words)

Bitter Sweet It was a "realism" that would not be repeated in a musical until Pal Joey eleven years later. Coward may have overreacted, for Bitter Sweet is not an unpleasant film if one forgets the exquisitely subtle source material. When Jeanette went to England in 1932 under contract to Herbert Wilcox, one of the plums held out was a film version of Bitter Sweet. www.dandugan.com /maytime/f-bitter.html   (2006 words)

HOW TO AUDITION FOR A MUSICAL Pal Joey: 1995 Original New York Cast Recording South Pacific: An Original Soundtrack Recording (1958 Film Version) The Sound Of Music: An Original Soundtrack Recording (1965 Film - 30th Anniversary Edition) www.redbirdstudio.com /AWOL/musical.html   (2006 words)

Gene Kelly: A Tribute Gene was discovered while in Pal Joey, and signed a contract with MGM. Gene's first of two dances he did with Fred Astaire, though they never did do a whole film. Anchors Aweigh (1945)- Gene's first of three movies he did with Frank Sinatra, also starring Kathryn Grayson www.bolduchome.com /mallory/GKtrib.htm   (514 words)

The Red Shoes on Broadway Choreography was by Lar Lubovitch and the direction was by film director Stanley Donen (who's only Broadway credit was as a 16-year-old dancer in the original Pal Joey at the Barrymore Theatre). It starred Roger Rees, Hugh Panaro, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne, Tad Ingram and Margaret Illmann. This was the 1993 musical by Jule Styne with Music was by Jule Styne (Gypsy, Funny Girl etc.), book by playwright Marsha Norman and lyrics were by Marcia Norman and Paul Stryker. www.powell-pressburger.org /Reviews/48_TRS/TRS10.html   (514 words)

OHara_John_pa In 1940, one of O'Hara's novel Pal Joey was turned into a musical with the help of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. This book was made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor. This essay was submitted by a student of Cheryl Petersohn, a teacher at Harriton High School in Rosemont, Pennsylvania. www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/ohara_john_pa.htm   (466 words)

Elaine Stritch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stritch was standby to the legendary Ethel Merman for the Irving Berlin musical Call Me Madam while simultaneously stopping the show with the song "Zip" in the 1952 revival of Pal Joey. The show itself, in addition to the rehearsal process and Stritch's backstage struggles with, among other things, alcoholism and diabetes, are documented in the D.A. Pennebaker film of the same name. Elaine Stritch, (born on February 2, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan) is a tall, lanky Irish-American actress and singer with a brassy, rough voice known for her brash, vocal characters. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elaine_Stritch   (592 words)

Elaine Stritch Biography @ Filmbug Elaine Stritch is best known for her work on the New York stage where she has appeared in numerous musicals, including Angel in the Wings, Pal Joey, On Your Toes, Show Boat and Company and in dramas such as Bus Stop, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stritch's rare film appearances include Cocoon: the Return and Woody Allen's September. Stritch's performances have been recognized with a Drama Critics Award and a Tony nomination (for A Delicate Balance), an Emmy Award (for Law & Order) and an Emmy nomination (for An Inconvenient Woman). www.filmbug.com /db/62162-9   (162 words)

The Insider by Ken Mandelbaum: Revivals: Late '70s, - Broadway.com Buzz The other institutional revival that year was Circle in the Square's Pal Joey, which became notorious when both leads ---ballet's Edward Villella and film star Eleanor Parker--- left during previews, to be replaced by an underpowered Christopher Chadman and a crisp Joan Copeland. The NYSF version featured a well-cast Raul Julia along with Blair Brown and Ellen Greene, and a striking staging by Richard Foreman. But while it was widely publicized as being more authentic than Marc Blitzstein's off-Broadway adaptation, it was far less satisfying musically. www.broadway.com /Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=514883   (162 words)

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