On the Town

But in all the films she was in, she was very, very memorable.

She was a wonderful partner for Gene Kelly in On the Town, and a small portion of Words and Music.

She worked with Astaire the, two years before this in Three Little Words.

She's wonderful with him.

She's delightful.

Keenan Wynn, supporting role, delightful.

But Alice Pearce, who some people may remember from On the Town, or her last professional role before her untimely death as the first Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched.

Uh, Alice Pearce is very, very funny in this movie.

So yes, all the classics, all the Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Um, On the Town.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

And every time she would come, like a lot of times she would bring me a VHS copy of some old musical or something.

And this one spring break she came to stay with us for Easter, and she brought me a VHS copy of both The Harvey Girls and On the Town.

And so those two movies-

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And then the track, which is also from the 1960s, but actually from the 1930s, is Nat King Cole's take on the Irving Berlin, uh, cla- Classic, um, jazz era classic, Let's Face The Music and Dance.

So originally written by Irving Berlin for a film, um, On The Town, possibly.

That might be wrong.

Somebody will correct me.

I was curious, I said, you know, what's Frank Sinatra's connection to Broadway? He performed on stage only once during a limited 1975 concert engagement, I believe.

But of course the film adaptations of the classic Broadway musicals like Guys and Dolls, Pal Joey, On the Town, and Can Can, certainly an icon just like you.

And when we talk about your jazz roots, You know, you mentioned Ain't Misbehavin' celebrating the music of Fats Waller and, of course, Play On, the Broadway musical built on jazz legend Duke Ellington, and the Louis Armstrong tribute, you were a part of that, starring in Ambassador Satch.

Let's start with Fats Waller.

He's in other stuff.

He is in On the Town, which is a delight.

Big fan of that movie.

Of course, he has Ocean's Eleven, the original.

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Yeah, and he ends up turning her back into her original self, which is very hag-coded.

It's the witch from Into the Woods.

It's the witch from Into the Woods, yeah.

He started as an actor on Broadway.

If we do the movies of The Pajama Game or The Boys from Syracuse, we'll see his work there.

He directed on Broadway so many things, including the original On the Town, Pal Joey, Once Upon a Mattress, featuring Carol Burnett's Broadway debut, Fiorello, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

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