Dance Critic Debra Levine to Co-Host “Choreography by Jack Cole” on Turner Classic Movies Monday September 10, 2012
Dance Critic Debra Levine to Co-Host “Choreography by Jack Cole” on Turner Classic Movies Monday September 10, 2012 ULCA Film & Television Archive and the Dance Heritage Coalition also honor the gifted choreographer TCM Host Robert Osborne with dance critic Debra Levine. Photos courtesy TCM PH Mark Hill. Los Angeles-based dance critic and arts journalist Debra Levine (Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, artsmeme.com) will co-host a special tribute to the influential dance maker Jack Cole (1911-1974) on Turner Classic Movies. The four-film tribute will be broadcast on September 10, 2012 starting at 8 pm ET (5 pm PT). Ms. Levine joins TCM’s veteran host Robert Osborne to provide commentary. From 1941 to 1962, Cole pioneered American jazz dance as an art form in Hollywood films. He contributed dance sequences to 30 movies at Columbia Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, and Metro Goldwyn Mayer, some credited, some not. Cole left behind a celluloid track record of outstanding filmed dance sequences with highly diverse themes, all with a recognizable Cole brand that is uncannily contemporary. TCM schedule for September 10, 2012: Tonight & Every Night (1945), 8 pm (ET), 5 pm (PT) Columbia Studios, 1945 dir Victor Saville Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt On the Riviera (1951) 10 pm (ET), 7 pm (PT) Twentieth Century Fox, dir Walter Lang Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Gwen Verdon Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1952), 11:45 pm (ET), 8:45 pm (PT) Twentieth Century Fox, dir Howard Hawks Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell Les Girls (MGM, 1957) 1:30 am (ET), 11:30 pm (PT) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, dir George Cukor Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Mitzi Gaynor, Gene Kelly Jack Cole with Marilyn Monroe UCLA Film & Television Archive, “A Tribute to Choreographer Jack Cole” Levine also participates in a live event at the Billy Wilder Theater of UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on August 4, 2012 as UCLA Film & Television Archive will screen a rarely viewed Cole movie, The I Don’t Care Girl (1953, Twentieth Century Fox).
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