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tempo
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fast or slow
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adagio
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slow, soft
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allegro
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fast, lively
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legato
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smooth
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andante
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moderately slow
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lento
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slow
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largo
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large
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beat
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steady, reccuring pulse
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rythm
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a pattern of accented and unaccented beats
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time
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fast or slow
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space
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small or large
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weight
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strong or light
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flow
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direct or indirect
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rhapsodic
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dances that express feeling; emotin that holds the composotion together
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Dimension
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the relative size of the body and the space the
body occupies on stage |
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Level
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indicates your position relative to the ground
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Virtuosity
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from “virtuoso” a person who has a masterly or
dazzling skill or technique in any field of activity |
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Pedestrian
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movement first flared on the radar in the 1960s
in the dances of Judson Dance Theater |
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Screwball Musicals
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like screwball comedies,
they feature attractive romantic leads whose sexual desire for one another is displaced- not into slapstick comedy, but into song and dance |
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Narrative Machine
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classical Hollywood cinema possesses a
style that is largely invisible and difficult for the average spectator to see |
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Mise-en-scène
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scene, setting, surroundings
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Temporal Dimension
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specific deadline; limit
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Hays Code
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The sanctity of the institution of marriage and the home
shall be upheld. Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relationship are the accepted or common thing. |
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Integrated Musical
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Musical numbers are
• Woven into the narrative structure |
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Non-Integrated Musicals
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Musical numbers
• Accumulate serially; Stand-alone spectacles connected loosely, if at all, to the plot |
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Pejorative
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Tending to make or become worse, derogatory, disparaging,
belittling |
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Negro Entertainment Syndrome
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Indeed, in almost every American movie in which
a black appeared, filmmakers had been trying to maintain the myth that Negroes were naturally rhythmic and natural-born entertainers |
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Agnes de Mille
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Choreographer Agnes De Mille innovatively used
dance to advance the plot and express the character’s subconscious feelings. De Mille’s choreography, particularly the “Dream Ballet,” established dance, especially modern dance, as an important feature of musicals |
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Rodeo: or, The Courting at Burnt Ranch
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The miming of the cowboys riding horses was a very
striking feature of the work; a perfectionist, Agnes worked hard to bring conviction to what might merely have been a stunt. |
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2nd Red Scare/Hollywood
Black List |
if u spoke against Hollywood u were thought to be communist; blacklisted
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Substitution in Singing in the Rain
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Don’s early career as a stunt double
• Kathy dubbing Lina’s voice • “...Jean Hagen’s voice, and not Debbie Reynold’s, was reportedly used in some of the “dubbed” sequences.” |
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Fred Astaire vs. Gene Kelly
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Kelly’s career as a dancer, offering a more masculinized style of athletic dance (in opposition especially to the stylized grace of Fred Astaire)
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Classic Realist Narration
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A narrative world that is consistent and coherent; that world obeys a stated or unstated set of rules that that give it credibility.
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Musical Reality
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Musicals shift from narrative to musical spectacle that the narrative fiction is unable to naturalize
involves a rupture or a break |
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Shifting Registers!
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involves a metamorphosis of roles
Characters relate to one another in terms of performer and audience. Passerbys on the street stop, watch, and listen, acknowledging the performance. |
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Freed Unit
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Arthur Freed produced a series of musicals at MGM 1939 to 1960 that tend towards more fully integrated interplay between musical numbers and narratives
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Singing in the rain Award
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Donald O’Connor won a Golden Globe for best motion picture actor in a musical or comedy
• The film won a Golden Globe for best musical or comedy. • Jean Hagen was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and Lennie Hayton was nominated for best music/scoring, but neither won. 17 |
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West Side Story
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Won 10 Academy Awards
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West Side Story Music
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soundtrack spent 50 weeks at number one
soundtrack received a Grammy for Best Soundtrack Album or Recording of Original Cast from Motion Picture or Television |
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Jerome Robbins
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-Choreographer/co-directed for West Side Story
-Broadway show includes On The Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button shoes -Of Ballet Communist (blacklisted) -won six Tony Awards including best musical and best director |
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West Side Story Cast Controversy
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Natalie Wood lip-synched to songs recorded by Marnie Nixon.
Wood was criticized for not maintaining a believable Puerto Rican accent during the film. Only secondary Shark roles were given to Latino actors.  |
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Portraying Ethnicity
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The Sharks and Puerto Rican characters in West Side Story spoke in exaggerated, shifting accents and the Jets’ hair was dyed unnaturally
blonde |
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“Brownface” for the Screen
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George Chakiris was “brownfaced” to play
Bernardo. • On the stage, Chakiris had previously played Riff, the leader of the Jets. |
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Melting Pot
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Concept referring to different cultures coming together to form a homogeneous body. (Assimilation)
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Cultural Pluralism
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Recognizes different cultural identities yet a neutral public space that everyone must accept. Groups are partially subordinate to this neutral space yet maintain their separate cultural spaces.
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Multicultural
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Similar to Pluralism as it recognizes different cultural identities yet it there is no neutral public space
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Verisimilitude
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The quality of appearing to be true or real
In the 2009 Broadway restaging of West Side Story, Director Arthur Laurents insisted that Latinos be cast as members of the Sharks |
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Rock Musical
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Hair was the first Rock Musical and it was a milestone in Broadway theater
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Cultural Phenomenon
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While other musicals have since eclipsed Hair, it spread faster and further than any previous musicals by branching into regional and international productions.
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Hippies
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coined by San Francisco Examiner newspaper columnist Michael Fallon in a September 5, 1965 article
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Dropping Out
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In the 1960’s many young people rebelled against economic, religious and sexual values held by previous generations
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1960s
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1963-John F. Kennedy assassinated November 1963.
1964- “Freedom Summer” registering black voters in the south 1965-Malcolm X assassinated February 1965-The March on Washington protesting the war 1966- Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers 1968-Martin Luther King was assassinated in April 1968- Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June |
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Vietnam Conflict-June 27, 1950
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Thirty-five military advisors are sent to South Vietnam to give military and economic aid to the anti-Communist government
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Vietnam Conflict-February 12, 1955
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The United States government agrees to train South Vietnamese troops
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Vietnam Conflict-Late 1961
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President John F. Kennedy orders more help for the South Vietnamese government in its war against the Vietcong guerrillas. U.S. backing includes new equipment and more than 3,000 military advisors and support personnel
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Vietnam War-August 7, 1964
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The U.S. congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Johnson the power to take whatever actions he sees necessary to defend southeast Asia.
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Vietnam War-1975
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U.S. Military Forces evacuate Vietnam
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Vietnam War
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2/3 of the men who served in Vietnam were volunteers. 2/3 of the men who served in World War II were drafted. [Westmoreland] Approximately 70% of those killed were volunteers. [McCaffrey] Many men volunteered for the draft so even some of the draftees were actually volunteers.
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Vietnam War Aftermath
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-1in10 Americans was a casualty.
-58,169 were killed and 304,000 wounded out of 2.59 million who served. -amputations or crippling wounds were 300 percent higher than in WWII. 75,000 Vietnam veterans are severely disabled. |
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Civil Rights Act- 1964
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The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968
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prohibited discrimination on the basis of color, race, religion, or national origin in public places, at the polls, and in housing
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1968- Sit-in and strike
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Columbia University to focus attention on the war and racism. Students were violently and forcibly removed, and then had a strike that shut down the university
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1970- President Nixon escalated the war
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200 colleges and universities went on strike
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Kent State University
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Ohio National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of protesting students, killing four and wounding nine
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Women's Movement-Betty Friedan
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published The Feminine Mystique in 1963 and it examined ways women had been disempowered and repressed. She discussed the institution of marriage, being relegated to the home, and only being permitted to work some jobs
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NOW (National Organization for Women)
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founded in 1966 with Friedan as president.
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Women's Movement- 1960
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Oral contraceptives known as “The Pill” were first available
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Roe vs. Wade
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New York first overturned antiabortion laws in 1969 and the U.S. Supreme Court’s
-case that legalized abortion in 1973 |
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Anti-Miscegenation Laws -Loving vs. Virginia
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• In1958, two residents of Va,Mildred Jeter,an African American woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in DC. The Lovings returned to VA shortly thereafter. The couple was then charged with violating the state's antimiscegenation statute, which banned inter-racial marriages. The Lovings were found guilty and sentenced to a year in jail (the trial judge agreed to suspend the sentence if the Lovings would leave Virginia and not return for 25 years).
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Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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-Anti-Miscegenation Law was prohibited due to this
The Virginia law, the Court found, had no legitimate purpose "independent of invidious racial discrimination |
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How did the Women’s Movement affect the portrayal of women in film
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the women’s movement became the sexual revolution;
that is, its political agenda was translated into a series of superficial changes in sexual mores. Women were depicted as sexually liberated or aggressive |
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Cabaret oscars
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10 nominations/ 8 oscars
Best Director (Bob Fosse), Best Actress (Minnelli), Best Supporting Actor (Grey), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Sound, and Best Scoring |
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History of Cabaret
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“Berlin Stories” by Christopher Isherwood
“I Am a Camera” by John Van Druten Broadway musical “Cabaret” opened in 1966 for 1165 performances |
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1970s
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-Vietnam War Comes to an End
-Resignation of President Richard Nixon -Affirmative Action |
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The Other
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The German philosopher Hegel was among the first to introduce the idea of the other as constituent in self- consciousness and identity. He wrote of pre-self-conscious Man: “Each consciousness pursues the death of the other.” In other words, humans tend to define themselves by what (and whom) they are not.
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bisexuality
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female bisexuality is still much more acceptable than male bisexuality, since it plays into a particular male heterosexual fantasy.” (Williams)
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The Gay Divorcee
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1934
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The Littelest Rebel
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1935
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Stormy Weather
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1943
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Singin In the Rain
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1952
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Oklahoma
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1955
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