Well, my dears, I have been MIA for quite some time and my sincerest apologies. I have been incredibly busy. Filming of BRIGADOON with Gene Kelly has begun (finally). There's another musical being filmed called SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, and Gene's friend Stanley Donen is directing it. It's a cute little B-musical. MGM has their money banked ( Read more... )

I have been talking to little Shirley Temple. She is such a doll! So charming and polite. She calls me Miss Cyd, and I adore that.

Filming, filming, filming. As usual.

filmed EASY TO LOVE with Esther, Van Johnson and Tony. :) It's a darling film ... Tony and I have a short appeareance in it. I play a lipstick model, and he sings to me.

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Tony is simply amazing!!

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Well, here it is, another year gone by. I'm just about done with my cameo in a musical called Singin' In the Rain starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and a young beauty who's been in only a handful of films, Debbie Reynolds. I remember at the beginning, when I was approached to do this picture, walking in to a rehearsal space, Debbie was ( Read more... )

Here are the photo themes for every month, you can also suggest other photo-posting themes, games, etc ( Read more... )

Well, I've finished filming Wild North with Stewart Granger. It's good to be back at MGM. I was at Universal for a short while last year to film Mark of the Renegade with Ricardo (Montalban), and it was nice, but it's certainly no MGM ;)

Wild North is a cute film ... I play and Indian, or is it Native American? They prefer Native American, but MGM ( Read more... )

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East Side, West Side cast Cyd Charisse as a young model who helps a playboy played by James Mason, and thereby earns the friendship of his wife played by Barbara Stanwyck. The film was modestly successful but Cyd was so lovely one forgets she's a dancer doing a straight acting job.So say the crtics ( Read more... )

filming on east side, west side has wrapped and all i hae to say is "finally!" i don't know if i could stand one more day of Babara Stanwyk and her cold attitude toward me. that woman is absolutely frigid! pardo me for saying that, but i've been holding back for months now. more than a few times she would ruin a perfectly good take because i was " ( Read more... )

Well kids, I'm making another picture again. *It's good to be back ( Read more... )