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   • Academy Award Costume Design (Color) 1954 · Nominated

   • Academy Award Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture) 1954 · Nominated

   • Academy Award Writing (Story and Screenplay) 1954 · Nominated

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   Was the Band Wagon reworked?

   • In the film version of The Band Wagon, the song was reworked as a specialty number by jazz arranger Skip Martin to showcase all of Astaire's musical talents. The musical director was Adolph Deutsch and the production was designed by Oliver Smith working for the first time in motion pictures.

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   Is the Band Wagon worth watching?

   • There are people--there are in fact several other IMDB reviewers--who prefer THE BAND WAGON, and with good reason. Entirely on its own merits and not in comparison to SITR (as it should be judged), this film is exactly what it sets out to be: a cracking two hours worth of sheer entertainment.

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   Is the Band Wagon based on a true story?

   • (The latter two play a show-biz couple who mirror the real-life platonic writing team behind the movie, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the same duo who wrote that other great 1950s musical, Singin’ in the Rain .) The Band Wagon is an exuberant exploration of loneliness, middle-aged reinvention, and the life-saving properties of singing and dancing.

   100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades: The Band Wagon (1953)

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   The musical director was Adolph Deutsch and the production was designed by Oliver Smith working for the first time in motion pictures. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, Color, Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay .

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   Awards. The Band Wagon. Jump to Academy Awards, USA (3) ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards (1) National Film Preservation Board, USA (1) Writers Guild of America, USA (1) 2 wins & 4 nominations.

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   Recently viewed. The Band Wagon: Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray. A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.

   • 7.4/10 (13K)
   • Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance

   • Director: Vincente Minnelli
   • Release Date: 1953-08-07

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   The Band Wagon received Academy Award nominations for Best Story and Screenplay, Best Costume Design (Color) and Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. Among the more famous musical numbers are "Dancing in the Dark," in which Astaire and Charisse alight from a hansom cab and dance in Central Park; "Triplets," in which the stars, portraying ...

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   Jul 26, 2023 · Everett Collection. July 26, 2023 7:32 AM EDT. Even though musicals are almost always more than the sum of their parts, Vincente Minnelli’s Crayola-box wonder The Band Wagon enfolds more than...

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   Mar 27, 2005 · The movie takes a would-be musical through all the stages of writing, casting, production, choreography, rehearsals, failure on the road and eventual triumph on Broadway. It's so happily aware of its genre that we actually do hear mention of renting a barn and putting on a show.

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