A World of Pure Imagination

This is a blog dedicated to my crazy obsession with musicals! I'll be posting videos, pictures, songs, quotes, and comments spanning the 100 years of musical cinematic genius! My absolute favorite musicals? 42nd Street (1933) Top Hat (1935) Swing Time (1936) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Easter Parade (1948) On the Town (1949) Summer Stock (1950) Singin in the Rain (1952) The Girl Can't Help It (1956) High Society (1956) West Side Story (1961) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Facotry (1971) Grease (1978) Moulin Rouge! (2001) Chicago (2002)

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Every Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Dance “Manhattan Downbeat” in THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY (1949)

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Judy Garland in her MGM dressing room during production of Norman Taurog‘s PRESENTING LILY MARS (1943)

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir. Jim Sharman

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"Never judge things by their appearance... even carpetbags. I'm sure I never do." Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson

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25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (07/25) ↳ white christmas (1954)

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SWEET CHARITY 1969 | dir. Bob Fosse

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JUDY GARLAND + GENE KELLY in Summer Stock dir. Charles Walters 

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Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann

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Oh, I don’t care, I don’t care When it comes to happiness, I want my share Don’t try to rearrange me There’s nothing can change me ‘cause I don’t care!

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#top tier movie proposal

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In another notable sequence, Kelly performs a solo dance in a darkened barn, using a newspaper and a creaky board as partners and props; the musical accompaniment reprises “You Wonderful You”. The dance “turned out to be one of the breakthrough numbers” of his career.

GENE KELLY in SUMMER STOCK dir. Charles Walters 

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42nd Street (1933)

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The Band Wagon (1953) dir. Vincente Minnelli

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A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star. An everlasting world and you’re here with me, eternally. Now that I’m here, now that you’re near in Xanadu. Now that I’m here, now that you’re near in Xanadu, Xanadu. Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu (1980) dir. Robert Greenwald

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RIP Olivia Newton John (1948-2022)

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MAMMA MIA! 2008│dir. Phyllida Lloyd

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get to know me: [3/10] fav movies → The Sound of Music ↳ “Somewhere out there is a lady who I think will never be a nun.“