Easter-ners!

 Eileen Brennan

as Milliner Irene Malloy

wearing "Ribbons Down My Back"

in the original Hello, Dolly!

Below with Charles Nelson Reilly, Jerry Dodge, and Sondra Lee.

(Couldn't find the name of the horse.)

 Fred and Ginger

put all their eggs in one basket

in Follow The Fleet (1936).

 Difficult to find much about 

The Shoestring Revue of 1955!

Below a pic of Chita Rivera who was one of the young hopefuls

from that show...

 

 No pics of Jane Connell exist from that show?
Well, here's a shot from her in the bath (below), 

as Miss (I LIVED!) Gooch

in the movie version of Mame.

We'll hear her "Garden" sketch from Shoestring on Sunday.

Sun is Gonna Shine, alright?

We are owed!

Carmen Cusack in Bright Star.

 Wrestling with the crowd (and varmint)

of Punxsutawney PA,

Andy Karl..."There Will Be Sun"

from Tim Minchin's Groundhog Day.

 What a trio of Easter-ners!

Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, and Fred Astaire,

happy to have made the most successful movie 

of their careers (so far!)...Easter Parade.

Judy was 26 years old, and Fred, 49!

(Irving was 50, btw.)

Actually Gene Kelly was supposed to star,

but he injured his ankle playing football? Volleyball?

Who knows? 

But the substitute took over, 

coming off the bench (and out of his first retirement)

in the last quarter of the game,

to do rather well for himself (and for the movie).

 "Creating"

on the black keys

with Fred, Ann Miller and Peter Lawford.

 

 That "Fella With An Umbrella"...Peter Lawford.

 Ann in a costume by Irene.

Cyd Charisse had a lock on the role

until a knee injury on another flick did her in,

so this became Ann Miller's first big MGM musical!

Judy, below, with "I Want To Go Back To Michigan"

with an apron over her razzmatazz dress,

so you know she's darn serious about that Michigan thing.