Debbie Reynolds: Hit The Deck, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Singing In The Rain and her birthday!4/2/2020 Hello all, I'm writing this post a day later than I intended to, but better late than never!
First off, just making sure you and your friends and family are healthy during these trying times, and now let us get on with the post! Debbie Reynolds' would-have-been 88th birthday was yesterday April 1st, She was born April 1, 1932 and died December 28, 2016. These reviews are my simple tribute to her, RIP Debbie 🤩! Also, for some fun facts I will be posting them tomorrow on the Hollywood Stars section of my Blog. The first review will be on Hit The Deck a 1955 musical/Rom-com, starring: Debbie Reynolds (of course!), Ann Miller the tap-dancer extraordinaire, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, Tony Martin and many more. The movie was very enjoyable and light with excellent songs ranging from Ann Miller's Keepin Myself For You and both renditions of Hallelujah! to Debbie Reynolds' Loo Loo. Spoiler! Ann Miller does an incredible, showstopping tap routine in the end of the movie. With a charming cast and handsome leading men, I am very glad that this was my first "Debbie" movie. My rating is 4 star. The Unsinkable Molly Brown another musical/ ROM-com was loosely based on a true story, about the life of the real unsinkable Molly Brown. Starring Debbie Reynolds and Harve Presnell, I almost stopped the movie during the beginning simply because I was kind of wierded out by the rough, tomboy Debbie wrestling and acting as if she was a brute but I am sooooo glad I stayed and watched through it. The movie starts with a broke somewhat manly Debbie, who looks for jobs and sings Belly Up To The Bar in bars ( who would have guessed?), she later meets a man Johnny who has a Colorado cabin, he sells his silver mine shares and through a series of mishaps (not telling:) they lose the money, only to strike gold ( believable right?) and become rich socialites, many parties and funny events occur and later Debbie goes on the Titanic, it sinks and she escapes with other people and cheers them up by singing. By the time she reached home she was a bona fide hero, there are more events before the end but I'll leave that to you. Mt review for the movie is 3.5 star. And last but not least, Singing In The Rain. Starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and a relative newcomer Debbie Reynolds. The movie is set in the twenties, based around the transition from silent films to "talkies". A musical with excellent dance numbers. I have to say, I think Donald was very talented and i enjoyed his performances better than Gene Kelly's. Though I do appreciate Gene's talent and his great dancing skills, I feel that he looks too rehearsed and according to quite a few sources he was quite the tyrant. Apparently, Debbie was crying under a prop because she was nervous and Fred Astaire came over and consoled her. My favorite numbers were Make'em Laugh sung and amazingly performed by Don, Singing In The Rain (of course), Good Mornin and Moses Supposes. I found Gene's dance scenes somewhat bizarre and forced into the movie but of course He and Cyd Charisse were wonderful. I did wish to see more of Don's comedic antics and more of Debbie in general. Lena was hilarious, acting as a dumb blonde one minute to practically blackmailing everyone in the studio! My rating for this classic is 4.5 star! I definitely recommend it! Thank you all and Goodnight! (Or Good morning 😁)
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