The Band Wagon News

Silver Screen Classic Movie Series continues with the musical comedy "The Band Wagon," from 1953.

A performer since age three, the effervescent Nanette Fabray has managed to keep her career moving not only because of her ample talent, but also due to her ability to move easily from screen to stage with ease.

Sometimes it takes an especially clever film to make one appreciate life's inoffensive banalities, its simple pleasures and the sheer wonder of being alive in the modern era.

Sarah Crompton says that dancing is in everyone's blood, if only we could admit it to ourselves.

Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron Choreographed by Michael Kidd 'Smooth Criminal' by Michael Jackson Video edited by CFJ Some things I wanted to say by this video are: 1) Fred Astaire was such a great dancer and he could dance beautifully to every type of music... even to a MJ song.

A Broadway star who ventured to Hollywood mid-career, Fred Astaire quickly became the era's icon of grace, style and perfection.

Ogunquit Performing Arts concludes the eighth season of The Classic Film Series with "The Band Wagon" at 7 p.m. Wednesday May 13, at the Great Hall of the Dunaway Center.

"Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer," by Emanuel Levy; St. Martin's Press nnn Emanuel Levy's book on Vincente Minnelli, the author is quick to remind us, is the first full-length biography of the great MGM director who helmed the transcendent musicals "Meet Me in St.