Introduction

Marguerite Chabrol & Pierre-Olivier Toulza

Marilyn Monroe in "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953).

Judy Garland in "The Boy Next Door," Meet Me in St. Louis (MGM, 1944).

Ann Miller in "Shaking the Blues Away," Easter Parade (MGM, 1948); "Prehistoric Man," On the Town (MGM, 1949); "Too Darn Hot," Kiss Me Kate (MGM, 1953).

Virginia O'Brien in "(Did I Get Stinkin') At The Club Savoy," Panama Hattie (MGM, 1942) and "Bring On Those Wonderful Men," Ziegfeld Follies (MGM, 1945).

Xavier Cugat in "The Dog Song," On an Island with You (MGM, 1948); and "Yo Te Amo Mucho - And That's That," Holiday in Mexico (MGM, 1946).

Marilyn Monroe in "Heat Wave," There’s No Business Like Show Business (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954)

Ethel Merman in "Heat Wave," Alexander’s Ragtime Band (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938)

 

Ginger Rogers in "We’re in the Money," Gold Diggers of 1933 (Warner, 1933)

Lena Horne in "Stormy Weather," Stormy Weather (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943)

Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan in "Triplets," The Band Wagon (MGM, 1953)

Frances Faye and Martha Raye in "After You," Double or Nothing (Paramount, 1937)