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  • By the late '40s, despite his enormous success as the director of the original Broadway productions of Oklahoma! and Carousel, he'd become almost unemployable in Hollywood; he completed only two more pictures, both for Arthur Freed Summer Holiday, an underrated musical with Mickey Rooney, and Silk Stockings, which is a good movie but hardly looks like a Mamoulian picture at all.

    Rita Hayworth Dances With Anthony Quinn Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • By the late '40s, despite his enormous success as the director of the original Broadway productions of Oklahoma! and Carousel, he'd become almost unemployable in Hollywood; he completed only two more pictures, both for Arthur Freed Summer Holiday, an underrated musical with Mickey Rooney, and Silk Stockings, which is a good movie but hardly looks like a Mamoulian picture at all.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • The project is called Stockings for Students, and it is in full swing.

    TheSunNews.com: Local 2009

  • "Stockings," another heedlessly ventured to answer.

    Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

  • FUN TO FILL CRITTERS: Crocheted Animals to Use as Pillows, Gift Bags or Christmas "Stockings" (Leaflet #2197) Leisure Arts by Sharon Compton

    Tanzanian Devil Discovered! 2008

  • HPFacebookVoteV2. init (399218, 'Early Losses Put Lumps of Coal in Hoops Fans\' Stockings ',' Last week, we looked at some Secret Santas: programs that are currently exceeding expectations by dominating their pre-New Yearschedules.

    Eric Angevine: Early Losses Put Lumps of Coal in Hoops Fans' Stockings 2009

  • Trivia note: this picture was remade as a musical for Fred Astaire: 1957's Silk Stockings.

    John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch' John Farr 2011

  • Stockings were filled with fruit, nuts and small candies.

    Edwardiana in the News | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • This American was a National League Baseball player, born Adrian Constantine Anson, but nicknamed “Cap” by his team mates in the Chicago White Stockings (which later became the Chicago Colts and is now the Chicago Cubs), for which he played the majority of his career.

    Five People Born on April 11 | myFiveBest 2010

  • A particularly intriguing section explores the idea of Astaire dancing to the blues, as in his remarkable solo based on "Bugle Call Rag" (from "You'll Never Get Rich," 1941) and "Ritz Roll and Rock" ("Silk Stockings," 1957)—an attempt by Astaire and Cole Porter to keep up with the latest developments in rhythm and blues.

    He Just Had to Move Will Friedwald 2011

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