Dancing With the Stars - Marge and Gower Champion in the "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" Number (Update: Marge's Documentary) (Update 2: Why The Champions Divorced)

There are the Castles, the Murrays, Astaire and Rogers. And then there are the Champions - Marge and Gower Champion.  They are the last gre...

Friday, December 17, 2010
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Marge Champion's Documentary is Available to Watch Online

The Marge Champion and Donald Saddler documentary Keep Dancing (2009) is on Vimeo for a short while as of January 27, 2016. Watch it...

Friday, January 29, 2016
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End of the year

Many stars have died in 2020. Here are a few: Olivia de Havilland ~New York Times Tribute - "Olivia de Havilland, a Star of ‘Gone With...

Monday, December 14, 2020
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Marge & Gower Champion - Awesome Dancers

Java sometimes plays movie excerpts on her computer while surfing the 'net. It's really for the familiar sound; I just continue do...

Sunday, September 26, 2010
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Marge Champion's Interview with the Archive of American Television

A few years ago,  the Archive of American Television   interviewed Marge Champion , legendary dancer/choreographer of film, stage and TV. A...

Monday, July 26, 2010
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Three for the Show (1955)- A Musical w/ Betty Grable/Jack Lemmon/Marge and Gower Champion

Known as Betty Grable's last musical, Three for the Show (1955) is a light romantic comedy with striking dances. It's meant ...

Thursday, July 03, 2014
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On Gower Champion

"The speed at which the musical travels is Gower Champion. Otherwise, ... we’d still be waiting for scenes to change..." --- autho...

Saturday, February 11, 2012
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Marge Champion Interview

Marge Champion - choreographer, classic film star, Broadway legend - gives a brief interview with Guideposts TV from July 2011 (see below). ...

Sunday, February 19, 2012
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My Six Loves (1963) w/ Debbie Reynolds

An actress vacations in Connecticut, but finds more then rest awaiting her there. As we've mentioned in our review of I Love Melvin...

Wednesday, September 23, 2015
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About Java's Journey

Java Bean Rush Welcome! What is this blog about, anyway? Java Bean Rush is the name. This blog records Java's journey throu...

Sunday, June 11, 2006
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12 More Random Movie-Related Tidbits About Java

12 More Random Movie-Related Tidbits About Java 12. For a long time I didn't know that Fred Astaire was bald. Then I read that infamou...

Friday, May 14, 2010
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A Classic Movies Survey from the Classic Forever Blog

The Classic Forever blog made a survey for the Classic Film/TV blogosphere to take. Here it is. Which actors do you always (or did you alwa...

Friday, April 16, 2010
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100 Classic Movie Blog Post Ideas [Download the PDF!]

Update 4-14-17: Download or print this list and share it wherever you like by clicking here: PDF of 100 Classic Movie Blog Post Ideas. ...

Monday, April 06, 2015
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