{"id":628,"date":"2015-12-02T21:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=628"},"modified":"2015-12-02T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T21:18:36","slug":"the-director-who-made-hollywood-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"The Director who Made Hollywood Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/5174reWgrgL._SY344_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-629 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/5174reWgrgL._SY344_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"5174reWgrgL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/5174reWgrgL._SY344_BO1204203200_-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/5174reWgrgL._SY344_BO1204203200_.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles Walters: The Director who Made Hollywood Dance Brent Phillips<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an aficionado of the Hollywood musical, you will almost certainly have seen one or all of the following: Good News, Easter Parade, The Berkeleys of Broadway, Summer Stock, The Belle of New York, Lili, High Society, Billy Rose\u2019s Jumbo, all (Lili ) excellent musicals handled by the talented and protean Charles Walters, who also worked uncredited on such films as Gigi and even Anthony Mann&#8217;s Western Cimarron (the latter, however, one of the great director\u2019s misfires). Of course, the most acclaimed directors in the musicals field are such names as Vincente Minnelli whose reputation is assured, despite the occasional lapse in judgement. But Walters was generally less acclaimed, and was regarded as something of a journeyman director \u2013 talented, but someone who belongs on the lower slopes of Mount Parnassus, rather than with the gods. Whatever your own feelings on this matter are, there is no denying that Walters produced some solid work in the genre, demonstrating an understanding of his material which ensured that the variety of actors, singers, orchestrators and choreographers he worked with were given the best possible conditions under which to create. Brent Phillips\u2019 thorough and enthusiastic book is the perfect testament to a relatively unsung hero of Hollywood, and may go some way towards redressing the esteem in which Walters\u2019 name as a director is held. Certainly, one effect of the book is to make the reader want to see all of these films again.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Walters: The Director who Made Hollywood Dance by Brent Phillips is published by University press of Kentucky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Walters: The Director who Made Hollywood Dance Brent Phillips If you&#8217;re an aficionado of the Hollywood musical, you will almost certainly have seen one or all of the following: Good News, Easter Parade, The Berkeleys of Broadway, Summer Stock, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}