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Kiss Me Kate

Screening on Film
Directed by George Sidney.
With Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller.
US, 1953, 35mm, color, 109 min.
Print source: British Film Institute

“From this Moment On” was not only a Cole Porter musical number in George Sidney’s 3D, musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, it was literally from this moment on, that Bob Fosse’s career flourished (though not in way he had originally envisioned—that he become the next Fred Astaire). Playing Hortensio, a role so small that the name does not even receive a mention, Fosse convinced Hermes Pan to choreograph his jazzy dance scene with Carol Haney, and the result—which is under a minute long—is so memorable that it attracted not only the audience’s attention, it led to Fosse’s choreographing the dances in The Pajama Game. The HFA will screen the 2D version of Kiss me Kate, where feuding divorcees reunite as co-stars, everyone quarrels offstage, and gangsters help you “Brush up your Shakespeare.” Print courtesy the British Film Institute.

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