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| Singin' In The Rain Tops List of 25 Greatest Movie Musicals American Film Institute revealed the top 25 movie musicals of all time in The Big Picture -- AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals, a one-night only presentation produced by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in cooperation with AFI. A jury of over 500 film artists, composers, musicians, critics and historians selected the Gene Kelly song-and-dance classic Singin' In The Rain as the most memorable movie musical of all time. Spanning a century of film music and counting down from 25 to number one throughout the evening, Director John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performed excerpts from each of the winning musicals, many of them accompanied by favorite movie scenes shown on the Bowl's big video screens. While television broadcasts have announced the previous nine installments of AFI's 100 Years ... series, following the success of last year's AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, this is now the second time an AFI countdown was revealed before a live audience. The Honorees Are: 1 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2 WEST SIDE STORY 1961 United Artists 3 WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 4 SOUND OF MUSIC, THE 1965 Twentieth Century-Fox 5 CABARET 1972 Allied Artists 6 MARY POPPINS 1964 Disney 7 STAR IS BORN, A 1954 Warner Bros. 8 MY FAIR LADY 1964 Warner Bros. 9 AMERICAN IN PARIS, AN 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 10 MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS 1944 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 11 KING AND I, THE 1956 Twentieth Century-Fox 12 CHICAGO 2002 Miramax 13 42ND STREET 1933 Warner Bros. 14 ALL THAT JAZZ 1979 Twentieth Century-Fox, Columbia 15 TOP HAT 1935 RKO 16 FUNNY GIRL 1968 Columbia 17 BAND WAGON, THE 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 18 YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 1942 Warner Bros. 19 ON THE TOWN 1949 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 20 GREASE 1978 Paramount 21 SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS 1954 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 22 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 1991 Disney 23 GUYS AND DOLLS 1955 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 24 SHOW BOAT 1936 Universal 25 MOULIN ROUGE! 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Created as a sidebar to AFI's popular AFI's 100 Years ... series, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals continues the mission of this program -- to reignite an interest in classic American cinema. This theme additionally befits the Hollywood Bowl's annual movie night, which brings to life the music of the world's most beloved films. AFI's 100 Years ... series has garnered considerable attention from movie lovers around the world -- and consistently sparks national discussions of America's film history. Previous programs within this series have included AFI 100 Years ... 100 Movies (1998), ... 100 Stars (1999), ... 100 Laughs (2000), ... 100 Thrills (2001), ... 100 Passions (2002), ... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003), ... 100 Songs (2004), ... 100 Movie Quotes (2005) and ... 100 Cheers (2006). write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |