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Works Derived From P. G. Wodehouse: Anything Goes, Heavy Weather, by Jeeves, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-03.
ISBN 9781155300658
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anything Goes, Heavy Weather, by Jeeves, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, List of Characters in the Jeeves and Wooster Series, Jeeves and Wooster, a Damsel in Distress, Anything Goes, Wodehouse Playhouse, Anything Goes. Excerpt: A Damsel in Distress A Damsel in Distress (RKO ) is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire , Joan Fontaine , George Burns , and Gracie Allen . With a screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse , loosely based on his novel of the same name , music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin , it is directed by George Stevens . Overview The film was made at George Gershwin's instigation, an enthusiasm that Wodehouse mischievously attributed to the fact that his novel was about a successful American songwriter named George Bevan. George Gershwin died of a brain tumour while the film was in production. The first Astaire RKO film not to feature Ginger Rogers , the nineteen year-old Fontaine was chosen, with Burns and Allen drafted in to provide the comedy. It soon emerged that Fontaine couldn't dance, but Stevens persuaded Astaire not to replace her with Ruby Keeler . The film was the first Astaire picture to lose money, costing $1, 305, 000 to produce and losing $65, 000. The "Stiff Upper Lip" routine garnered co-choreographer Hermes Pan the 1937 Academy Award for Best Dance Direction. Key songs and dance routines The choreography explores dancing around, past, and through obstacles, and in confined spaces. Notes and references (URLs online) item 1. Mueller, John (1986). Astaire Dancing - The Musical Films . London: Hamish Hamilton. pp. 126 137. ISBN 0-241-11749-6. item 2. Thomas, Bob (1985). Astaire, the Man, the Dancer . London: We
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Works Derived From P. G. Wodehouse: Anything Goes, Heavy Weather, by Jeeves, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
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