A married couple (Howard Keel , Kathryn Grayson being a real surprise here) can't separate their real lives from their stage roles , while threatening them a duo (James Withmore , Keenan Wynn) of low comic mobster types as ever brushed up on their Shakespeare . This diverting musical comedy results to be a screen adaptation of Shakespare's Taming of the Shrew based on Cole Porter's Broadway show . The famed stage hit.. now a big colorful musical in 3D !!! A Great Big M-G-M Musical in COLOR! Hollywood's First Important Big MUSICAL in Perfected 3-D .On the Vast Panoramic Screen With Stereophonic Sound...Color Too! Broadway's Long-Run Musical Smash Hit - Now on the Screen...All the Spicy Splendor!.MGM presents Hollywood's first important BIG MUSICAL in 3-D on our Panoramic Screen with MIRACLOUS STEREOPHONIC SOUND! COLOR, too! .Bigger, Better Blushin-er than the famed Broadway Smash Hit
This enchanting , lavish musical stars Howard Keel dancing magnificently through wonderful scenarios , though filming mostly in in the MGM studios with no outdoors . The movie is a heady mixture of Cole Porter music , breathtaking dances and light entertainment . One of the Greatest of All Great MGM Musicals bursts from the screen loosely based on the original William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew , rendered by Cole Porter , scripter Dorothy Kingsley and well directed by George Sidney , by way of some nice interpretations by Howard Keel who has never been more virile and Kathryn Grayson who never gutsier , both of whom performing a married pair , whose off-stage and on-stage lives mingle . They are really brilliant with the help of talented MGM hoofers as Tommy Rall, , Bobby Van , Bob Fosse and Anne Mille dances a storm in the ¨Tom , Dick or Harry¨ number . Special mention for Keenan Wynn and James Withmore as two likeable gangsters giving a priceless rendition of ¨Brush up your Shakespeare¨. All of them create an almost perfect show .
It displays a colorful and luxurious cinematography in picturesque Technicolor and 3D Cinemascope . Marvellous scenarios, worth artificial-looking production design that only emphasised its stagebound origins . The motion picture was compellingly directed by George Sidney. Sidney was a good Hollywood filmmaker , becoming MGM's most successful director in the 1940's . George was an expert in big budget musicals , but also handled rollicking swashbucklers like The three musketeers (1948) that he formerly made in similar style and this Scaramouche (1952) . Some of his biggest hits were movie versions of successful Broadway plays , like Annie get your gun (1950) and Magnolia (1951) . After leaving MGM in 1955, Sidney went over to Columbia under a seven-year contract and had one more major hit with Pal Joey (1957), made under the banner of his own production company and after directing other successes . Kiss Me Kate (1953) rating : Better than average . It is a very good film thanks to fabulous scenarios , luxury interiors , glamorous gowns and being lavishly financed by MGM .
This enchanting , lavish musical stars Howard Keel dancing magnificently through wonderful scenarios , though filming mostly in in the MGM studios with no outdoors . The movie is a heady mixture of Cole Porter music , breathtaking dances and light entertainment . One of the Greatest of All Great MGM Musicals bursts from the screen loosely based on the original William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew , rendered by Cole Porter , scripter Dorothy Kingsley and well directed by George Sidney , by way of some nice interpretations by Howard Keel who has never been more virile and Kathryn Grayson who never gutsier , both of whom performing a married pair , whose off-stage and on-stage lives mingle . They are really brilliant with the help of talented MGM hoofers as Tommy Rall, , Bobby Van , Bob Fosse and Anne Mille dances a storm in the ¨Tom , Dick or Harry¨ number . Special mention for Keenan Wynn and James Withmore as two likeable gangsters giving a priceless rendition of ¨Brush up your Shakespeare¨. All of them create an almost perfect show .
It displays a colorful and luxurious cinematography in picturesque Technicolor and 3D Cinemascope . Marvellous scenarios, worth artificial-looking production design that only emphasised its stagebound origins . The motion picture was compellingly directed by George Sidney. Sidney was a good Hollywood filmmaker , becoming MGM's most successful director in the 1940's . George was an expert in big budget musicals , but also handled rollicking swashbucklers like The three musketeers (1948) that he formerly made in similar style and this Scaramouche (1952) . Some of his biggest hits were movie versions of successful Broadway plays , like Annie get your gun (1950) and Magnolia (1951) . After leaving MGM in 1955, Sidney went over to Columbia under a seven-year contract and had one more major hit with Pal Joey (1957), made under the banner of his own production company and after directing other successes . Kiss Me Kate (1953) rating : Better than average . It is a very good film thanks to fabulous scenarios , luxury interiors , glamorous gowns and being lavishly financed by MGM .