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- handle: 10670/1.0f74w8
- isbn: 9782840669715
- eisbn: 9782840165323
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Robynn J. Stilwell, « Imitation, Embodiment, and Homage in Eleanor Powell’s Tribute to Bill Robinson », Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, ID : 10670/1.0f74w8
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The 1939 film Honolulu (Edward Buzzell, MGM, 1939) takes advantage of a cruise-ship tradition of passenger talent shows to add numbers to its shipbound second act. The talent show with the theme “Come As Your Favorite Movie Star” features Gracie Allen as Mae West, Robert Young as Leopold Stokowski, and a full complement of faux Marx Brothers (including multiple Grouchos). But the star turn, internally to the film and externally, is Eleanor Powell performing Bill Robinson’s “stair dance”[CLIP ...