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on the narrative verb) takes place on the stage of the run-down nightclub where the heroine (Lisa) Minnelli works.

Impressionist musical films explode into singing and dancing in the middle of the scene, without “preparing the piece with an acceptable realistic excuse.” ( 5-20). This tradition has to be accepted as a basic premise in these musical films, otherwise the whole movie would look like this To the viewer, everything escalates in style in such works—the scenery, the clothes, the acting. Thus most of the great Vincent Minnelli musicals of the forties and fifties are impressionistic (Meet Me in St. Louis), The Buccaneer, The Chariot, An American in Paris, and Jiji) (5-21).

Although musical films have been produced in many countries, this genre is dominated by Americans, perhaps because the genre is closely associated with the American studio system. In the 1930s, many large studios specialized in a particular genre of musical film. At RKO, director Mark Sandrig created the duo of Frieda Steyer-Ginger and Rogers in films such as (The Top Hat Shall We Dance?) and (The Fun). Choreographer Hermes Pan also contracted with this studio. Paramount Studios In complex "continental" musicals such as Lubitsch's "An Hour with You" and "Monte Carlo" at Warner Brothers, director and choreographer Zubby Berkeley delighted audiences with his entertaining proletarian stories about the life of cinema, in which geometric patterns formed by masses were presented. Dancers from unconventional angles. (5-22) specialization

As the genre contracted and was dominated by MGM in the 1940s and 1950s, the two biggest musical directors, Minnelli and Stanley Donen, in fact, this successful studio boasted the most talented musical personalities of the time, including Judy Carland, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Mickey Rooney, Ann Miller, Vera Allen, Lesley Caron, and Donald Trump. O'Cooler, Syd Charice, Howard Keel and Catherine Cresson who, along with Michael Kidd, Bob Fosse, Kaur Champion and Gene Kelly, did the studio choreography. Producer Arthur Freed was responsible for nearly all of the studio's great musical productions, including most of Minelli's films, Donen's colossal cocoons "In the City" and "Singin' in the Rain" - both co-directed with Gene Kelly - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and the delicious "Laughing Face." (5-23).