From "Schmigadoon" To "Brigadoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                           When I reviewed "Schmigadoon," I referred to it being like the stage version of a Technicolor MGM Vincente Minnelli musical.  Well, guess what, girls?  The 1954--my birth year--film version of "Brigadoon" was exactly that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                             Just look at the superb color composition in this photograph!  The contrasts of color in the brown ground and the blue and pinkish sky!!!!!!!!!  And the darkness of Kelly's color coordinated costume and the brightness of Cyd Charisse's (yes, that is her!) yellow dress.  Only Minnelli could have achieved this.  "Brigadoon" may not the perfection of "Meet Me In St. Louis," for those interested in the Minnelli canon, it is worth seeing.

                              I have never seen it, and, girls, how I want to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              How many of us, before Donna McKechnie, wanted to dance like Cyd Charisse?  And wear dresses like that?  I know I did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              I think "Brigadoon' is underrated in the Minnelli canon, and deserves a secnond look.

                              And now, thanks to "Schmigadoon," it will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!