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Kiss Me Kate | Year: 1953 Classification: Musical Directed: - George Sidney (II) - Michael Blakemore Actors/Actresses: - Kathryn Grayson - Howard Keel - Brent Barrett - Rachel York In Your Face Musical Comedy Kiss Me Kate is a wonderful presentation. Produced in 1953 it contains faux 3D affects -- with objects thrown at the camera (it probably was originally shown in 3D) occasionally. That's a little distracting, but it is a period piece. <BR>The show stopper Brush Up Your Shakespeare with Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore is excellent. Although neither is a singer or a dancer, they are charming. <BR>The comedy by-play of Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel as the feuding divorced couple starring in a play within a play is wonderful. The staging of their two dressing rooms along with the choreography as they waltz through the rooms and hallway is fun to watch. <BR>The dancing is top rate with Ann Miller and Bobby Van, but my favorite person to watch is the very young Bob Fosse. Even in the early fifties you can see the dance moves that made him famous for the next four decades.<BR>This is a movie I'll watch again and again. I'll purchase the DVD when it becomes available, too. It's the Tops! This charming film, along with so many others, came spilling out of the MGM cornucopia in 1953. This is a show-within-a-show musical about a Broadway production of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" with Kathryn Grayson playing the rather shrewish lead. The screenplay takes many liberties with the original Broadway book, some for the worse (insane bowdlerizing such as changing "raising hell" to "raising Cain") some for the better (the wonderful ensemble production number "From This Moment On"). Grayson and Keel strike sparks against each other quite effectively as the divorced couple who are forced to share a stage and Ann Miller is spot-on as the slightly dimwitted hoofer who has a crush on Keel. The dancing in this movie is enchanting. For once, Ann Miller has been freed from her wind-em-up-and-let-her-go tapping, and she makes the most of it in "Tom, Dick and Harry" and other numbers. In the show-stopping "From This Moment On" Bobby Van, Tommy Rall and a very young Bob Fosse use tap, ballroom and modern dance to great advantage. And, while not exactly a dance, no one can forget Grayson's slam-bang "I Hate Men." In case you're wondering why things are forever spinning out of the background or why people are flinging things toward the camera, this film was originally released in 3-D. Never mind that, "Kiss Me Kate" is a classic anyway. Should have included a Field Sequential 3-D version! Not that many people are aware of the Field Field Sequential 3-D .<BR>This is a 3-D TV system that uses special shutter glasses that can be purchased here through Amazon in a set that includes 3 DVD's using this process. This system Is the only way to view a 3-D film effectively on TV to date. The result is about 90% close to the effect you will see in a theatre showing.. like IMAX and Disney and Universal.<BR>These glasses are made of sturdy plastic and clear not these cardboard red and blue pieces of garbage, so you can view the film without constricted to seeing red and blue colors and with this system you will see more actual 3-D depth with the films true colors.. It's really amazing!<BR>For some add reason the big studios haven't adapted to include a separate version of a 3-D title in this great format.<BR>Films like:<BR>"House of Wax","Kiss Me Kate","Friday the 13th Part 3", "Robot Monster, "Cat Woman on the Moon", "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "Jaws 3" are all now in 2-D DVD, but were originally shown in 3-D and could have been included using the Field Seqential 3-D system on the same disc with the 2-D version.<BR>In Japan in the late 80's there were a few 3-D titles released using Field Sequential 3-D and can be found on e-bay converted to DVD and VHS.<BR>Why aren't the studios producing these now!<BR>I boycott any film DVD release that was originally intended to be seen in 3-D that's only presented in a 2-D version or anaglyph (Red and Blue Glasses). The studios should really be awaken to this great 3-D system. Buy Kiss Me Kate at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Kiss Me Kate Search with the Priority Search Engine on Kiss Me Kate This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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