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Celebrating Hollywood’s Top Movie Musicals Of The 1950s.
By David Cohea, ReMIND Magazine
It was the decade of the American dream. World war and the Depression were fading in the rearview mirror. The future looked bright. The age of television was just dawning, but there was still something special about movies that kept theaters filled: singing and dancing and a good time for all, in Technicolor and VistaVision.
Hollywood movie musicals promised a vintage world of imagination, magic and toe-tapping pizzazz.
Sometimes there was polish to these movie musicals: tuxedoes and ball gowns, shiny shoes dancing on glittery floors. Other times they took us to distant places like Paris or the South Pacific, or into the golden past, be it a frontier farm out West, an old South riverboat floating down the Mississippi or a cab up Broadway in the Roaring ’20s.
3 Classic Christmas Films: A Musical, a Romance, and a Christmas Surprise
The holiday season is the most sentimental time of the year. Yuletide customs, songs, and decorations that remain popular today originated decades or centuries ago. Perhaps that’s why Christmastime seems like the perfect season for discovering old movies. While many holiday traditions have been changed or canceled this year, we can recapture those feelings with holiday movies from the Golden Era of Hollywood: musicals introducing standard Christmas songs, dramas bringing tears amid festive settings, and comedies inspiring laughter even while warming hearts. There also are those that don’t seem like Christmas films but surprise viewers with holiday scenes.
Thursday, December 17 Tis the season to eat, drink, and be merry, and there will be lots of that going on at Hyde Beach at SLS South Beach on Thursday when it hosts the fifth edition of
Celebrity Taste. The culinary pop-up event will feature tastings from a lineup of illustrious chefs and drinks from Saam Lounge at the SLS Brickell. Expect offerings from Karla Hoyos of the Bazaar by José Andrés, Edgar Vazquez of Katsuya, Mark Iacono of Lucali, Jose Mendin of Pubbelly, Jason Acoba of Tanuki, and Victor Rosado of Fi lia. Tickets include both tastings and cocktail creations from the beverage partner stations until 10 p.m., at which point the venue will switch to a cash bar.