Kiss Me Kate 3D

Based on Shakespeare's “The Taming Of The Shrew,” Kiss Me Kate was brought to the screen in 1953 by a team of MGM veterans––Producer Jack Cummings, Screenplay Writer Dorothy Kingsley, and Director George Sidney. Hermes Pan choreographed the film's dances. Pan also allowed co-star Bob Fosse to add his own choreography to the climactic “From This Moment On” number, in which he appears with Carol Haney. The musical direction was by André Previn and Saul Chaplin. The film version (which followed the Broadway production) received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. Featured are such Cole Porter songs as “Why Can't You Behave?,” “Wunderbar,” “So In Love,” “Too Darn Hot,” “Always True To You In My Fashion,” and “Brush Up Your Shakespeare.” In the film, Fred Graham (Keel) and Lilli Vanessi (Grayson), now divorced, are musical theatre actors now playing Petruchio and Katherine, the leads in a musical based on Shakespeare's play. The two stars are on bad terms, and spats, not the least of which involve Fred's new girlfriend Lois (Miller), threaten to close down the show. Keeping things together are a pair of gangsters (Wynn) and Whitmore), who are there to collect bad gambling debts from Bill Calhoun (Rall), who plays Lucentio. Classic gags and craziness ensue before it all works out in the final act. (Gary Reber)