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...Mickey would volunteer, and My Mom's got a sewing machine for making costumes," Judy would chime in, and before the audience had time to groan at the sheer corniness of it all, they would have A SHOW. Well, it's 40 years later now and the lure of Ziegfeld has given way to the raw animal appeal of Woodward and Bernstein; and so now the do-it-yourselfers have decided to give the world of publishing a whirl...
...Vegas Showgirl Valerie Perrine is dusting off some old tricks for her role in NBC's spring special Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women. Perrine plays Lillian Lorraine, one of Ziegfeld's girlfriends, who wants to be a star in the famous follies. So Ziggie obligingly surrounds her with lavish sets. In one inflated scene, she descends a 36-ft. staircase amid 6,000 balloons-pure Pop corn...
...stock market scene, as the quartet bewails the fickleness of finances, Cookie Harlin sings the words from the ticker tape. Later on, the group marches out in their ties and tails, then cavorts around the stage in an outrageous array of feathers and jewels--gaudy enough to make Flo Ziegfeld envious...
Died. William Redfield, 49, veteran TV, stage and screen actor whose estimated 2,000 performances included playing Harding in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; of a respiratory ailment complicated by leukemia; in Manhattan. The son of a music arranger and a Ziegfeld Follies chorus girl, Redfield played ten roles on Broadway before he was 20. He later wrote about the theater -Letters From an Actor (1967)-and with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan helped found the Actors Studio...
Hoof and Croon. Kelly has directed some new sequences to introduce the film clips, pleasant interludes sung and danced by the director and Fred Astaire, appearing together for the first time in a movie since they did The Babbit and the Bromide in Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Astaire is 77 but retains his very particular charm. He is part boulevardier, part made-in-U.S.A. naïf. Kelly, 63 and still able to dance in and out of rain puddles better than anyone else ony earth, stages these hoof-and-croon sessions with roughhouse smoothness. Among the assorted clips...