Despite the lovely spring weather, we had a good crowd in Cregagh Community centre for our last film of the Golden Oldies Movie Nights series, Easter Parade.
Easter Parade is a 1948 American musical starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featuring music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland’s best-known songs, such as Steppin’ Out with My Baby and We’re a Couple of Swells.
As usual, our mine of knowledge Michael Smythe, ‘Mr Classic Film Club’, introduced the film and surprised our spectators with his factual tit-bits, such as: ‘…the film won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture, and it also received the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. It also was the most financially successful picture for Garland and Astaire, as well as the highest-grossing musical of the year.’ Moreover, he explained that ‘…one musical number, a seductive performance of Mr. Monotony by Garland wearing the top half of a tuxedo and nylon tights, was cut from the film as it was considered too risqué for a film supposedly set in 1912!!!'
At the end of the movie, some tears marked the faces of our film lovers, knowing that that was the last film of the season… but with the popularity of these classics, I’m sure the Golden Oldies series will be back …
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