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KISS ME KATE in 3-D
U.S., 1953
Directed by George Sidney
Starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Carol Haney
Approx. 109 mins. 3-D restoration courtesy Warner Bros.
“They’ll tap into your lap!” Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson star as once-married Broadway stars, reunited for a tempestuous play-within-the-movie staging of The Taming of the Shrew, in MGM's high-spirited movie version of the Cole Porter classic — a song-and-dance feast featuring the dynamic talents of Ann Miller (tapping her heart out), Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, Carol Haney and the fabulous young Bob Fosse. The eye-popping, show-stopping musical numbers include "Too Darn Hot," "Tom, Dick and Harry" and the Fosse-choreographed "From This Moment On,” which Pauline Keal described as one of the high points of movie-musical history.”
Reviews
"Literate, witty and thoroughly beguiling....one of the best and most neatly plotted musicals of the decade... every song a show stopper."
— Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
“QUERULOUS LOVERS, WASPISH DIALOGUE AND ERUDITE HOODLUMS FOR COMIC RELIEF!”
– Time Out (London)