| re: Vivian Blaine, Tom Eyen and HIV Fundraising. |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:30 pm EST 02/16/22 |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:25 pm EST 02/16/22 |
| In reply to: re: Vivian Blaine, Tom Eyen and HIV Fundraising. - DistantDrumming 10:57 pm EST 02/15/22 |
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| Vivian Blaine was in A films as well, like the 1945 "State Fair". Until cable tv and TCM in particular, most old films on tv shown were from the MGM catalogue. Lots of great stuff there, but at the expense of seeing Universal, and Fox musicals in particular among the other studios' output. So folks like Deanna Durbin at Universal, and Fox's Betty Grable and Alice Faye's (and Vivian Blaine's) films weren't shown hardly at all compared to Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney's, for example. Fox films actually had better Technicolor, a great orchestra and music department, and were also really less pretentious, preachy and more down to earth and frankly enjoyable than many made at MGM. There are some really good B films - yes, agreed B doesn't necessarily mean less talent, but just a lot less money was spent on the production values. Blaine wasn't as big a star as Faye and Grable, more of a second stringer in A films, but still quite famous when she starred on Broadway in "Guys and Dolls" in 1950 after having appearing in movie musicals throughout the 1940s. |
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