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Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg in New York City in 1931

This week on «Film Friday» I have decided to bring you «MGM's dazzling succesor to Great Ziegfeld.» Incidentally, this film had its premiere exactly 79 years ago today. Original window card for Born to Dance Directed by Roy Del Ruth, Born to Dance (1936) opens as sailors Gunny Saks (Sid Silvers),  Ted Barker (James Stewart)  and Mush Tracy (Buddy Ebsen) return to New York after four years at sea. At the same time, aspiring dancer Nora Paige (Eleanor Powell), who has just lost out on a Broadway show, enters the Lonely Hearts Club and quickly befriends receptionist Jenny Saks (Una Merkel), Gunny's wife. Jenny hastily married Gunny after being his partner in a twenty-eight day dance marathon and has not seen him since he shipped out. Unbeknownst to Gunny, they have a young daughter named Sally (Juanita Quigley). When Gunny arrives at the club to rekindle his relationship with Jenny, Mush flirts with singer/waitress Peppy Turner (Frances Langford), while Ted falls ins...

Rock "Roy Harold" Hudson and Doris "Eunice Blotter" Day on the set of Delbert Mann's Lover Come Back (1961) This is one of my absolute favorite pictures of all time. I don't know what it is about it, but I just love it.

ELEANOR POWELL (Nov ember 21, 1912 — Fe b ruary 11, 1982) Whenever you hear the beat of my feet, it is really the beat of my heart saying, 'Thank you and God bless you!'

To celebrate lovely Gene Tierney's 95th birthday, which was yesterday, this week on "Film Friday" I thought I would bring you what I believe was the first film of hers I have seen. Incidentally, this picture was released on the exact same date of her 26 th birthday. Original poster by Norman Rockwell Directed by Edmund Goulding, The Razor's Edge (1946) opens at a dinner party held by eliti st snob El liott Templeton (Clifton Webb) and his sister L ouisa B radley (Lucile Watson) at a Chicago coun try club in 1919. Much to the family's dismay, Louisa 's daughter I sabel (Gene Tierney) is enga ged to Larry Dar rell (Tyrone Power), a war veteran who discovers upon his return home that he can no longer fit into th e world of upper-class society that his fianc é lives in. Also at the party is Sophie Nels on ( Anne Baxter ), Isabel's simple childhood friend ; Gray Maturin (John Pa yne), Larry's wealthy f riend who is also in love with Isabe...