4 Posted on 22 Jan 2009 4 by Nana

Susanna Foster, a singer and 1940s leading lady whose most famous role was the terrorized prima donna in the first talking version of "Phantom of the Opera," died Saturday of heart failure at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, N.J., according to publicist Dale Olson. She was 84.

Foster costarred with Claude Rains and Nelson Eddy in the 1943 Academy Award-winning remake of the 1925 silent screen version of the macabre melodrama that starred Lon Chaney. It was one of a dozen films Foster made before virtually disappearing from the screen in 1945.

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4 Posted on 18 Jan 2009 4 by Nana

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4 Posted on 16 Jan 2009 4 by Nana

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced together in 10 magical movie musicals, including nine at RKO from 1933 through 1938. Sixty years after they last appeared together on screen, their collaboration that has held up the best, according to most cineastes and critics, is "Top Hat" (1935), which -- like four of the others -- was directed by Mark Sandrich.

The film is best known and most commonly referenced ("The Purple Rose of Cairo," "The English Patient," "The Green Mile") for a song-and-dance number that pops up about halfway through, "Cheek to Cheek," which remains one of the most charming, romantic, and crowd-pleasing sequences ever committed to celluloid. For the participants, though, it was one of the most tedious and least enjoyable they ever endured -- and all because of a dress!

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4 Posted on 08 Jan 2009 4 by Nana

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