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Nothing like a romantic musical to start the month of love! It was nostalgic and sweet and had a classic "White Christmas" vibe to it. I've got those songs stuck in my head now :) Everyone in this was incredibly talented in so many ways! I do wish we could have seen more of cosmo though... Hope you enjoy! Star Trek V coming tomorrow!

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YodatheHobbit

It's pretty wild how small Hollywood can feel with Debbie Reynolds being Carrie Fisher's mother, as well as the theater actress Don calls Cathy in the beginning, Ethel Barrymore, being Drew Barrymore's Great Aunt. She was born in freaking 1879! , and they have pretty much the same eyes.

Em McG

I guess I'm pretty far behind because I just finished watching this. I know the movie so well I was mostly focused on watching Cassie who seemed to like it quite a bit. But when Gene Kelly and Donald O'Conner were dancing, I couldn't look away. If you notice... the dancing scenes are all shot full body. The frame shows the dancers from head to toe. And they had very long scenes with no cuts. Basically they have to learn the dances and really perform onscreen - compare to anything that would be filmed today there would be a lot of camera cuts and close-ups to hide any bad performance, today they would piece it together, edit a complete scene instead of performing it through like here. Also notice Gene Kelly did a "Jackie Chan" doing a stunt climbing from a moving car to a bus/trolley and then standing on top of it, while acting. This was shot in one take with his full body on camera - not faked. Very cool. He was sword fighting and swung from a chandelier!