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31 Days of Oscar: ‘Musical’
TCM, beginning at 5:45 a.m.
You’ll be humming and tapping your feet all day today as Turner Classic Movies’ 31 Days of Oscar presents 10 Academy Award-nominated and/or -winning musical favorites. Featured titles are 1929’s The Broadway Melody (pictured) — won Best Picture, and also nominations for Best Actress (Bessie Love) and Director (Harry Beaumont); Swing Time (1936) — won for Best Original Song (“The Way You Look Tonight,” by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields), and also nominated for Best Dance Direction (choreographer Hermes Pan’s “Bojangles of Harlem” sequence); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) — five nominations, including Best Picture, and one win, for the musical score by Adolph Deutsch and
Saul Chaplin; Gigi (1958) — won all nine of the categories in which it was nominated, including Best Picture, Director (Vincente Minnelli) and Original Song (“Gigi,” by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner); The Music Man (1962) — six nominations, including Best Picture, and one win, for Ray Heindorf’s adaptation of the Broadway score; A Star Is Born (1954) — six nominationp.m.s, including Best Actor (James Mason), Actress (Judy Garland) and Original Song (“The Man That Got Away,” by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin); An American in Paris (1951) — eight nominations, including Best Director (Vincente Minnelli), and six wins, including Best Picture; West Side Story (1961) — won 10 of its 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Director (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins), Actor (George Chakiris) and Supporting Actress (Rita Moreno); Fiddler on the Roof (1971) — eight nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Topol), Supporting Actor (Leonard Frey) and Director (Norman
Jewison), and three wins: Cinematography (Oswald Morris), Sound (Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard) and Best Music, Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score (John Williams); and Cabaret (1972) — won eight of its 10 nominations, including Best Actress (Liza Minnelli), Supporting Actor (Joel Grey) and Director (Bob Fosse), and was also nominated for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay (Jay Presson Allen).