I'm a big fan of Shirley but I feel I have to put aside a lot of what I hear about her personally. She rarely comes across well. So I'm glad you like her so much.
Holm was always a supporting character actress. I wonder if that had something to do with her bitterness. She also wanted very much to do Ado Annie in the film of Oklahoma and she had the full support of Agnes DeMille. Rodgers and Hammerstein thought she had gotten too old and gave it to the...
Easter Parade is one of the greatest musicals with Astaire and Garland at their best and a charming script so referring to it as meat and potatoes is incomprehensible. Maybe he just doesn't like musicals which is fair enough.
Shit! Manners!
Yes she is often wonderful on screen but I think everyone here has her pegged. Anybody else see her towards the end of her life at the Loew's Jersey showing of Eve? Very sad.
And I can't believe people are discussing Walters without mentioning he directed one of the best movie...