| 词条 | Tommy Rall |
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| name = Tommy Rall | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1929|12|27|mf=y}} | birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | years_active = 1942-1988 | birth_name = Thomas Edward Rall | spouse = Monte Amundsen (1959-?) Karel J. Shimoff (1967-present) }} Thomas Edward "Tommy" Rall (born December 27, 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American ballet dancer, tap dancer and acrobatic dancer who was a prominent featured player in 1950s musical comedies. He later became a successful operatic tenor in the 1960s, making appearances with the Opera Company of Boston, the New York City Opera, and the American National Opera Company. BiographyRall was raised in Seattle. As a child he had a crossed eye which made it hard for him to read books, so his mother enrolled him in dancing classes. In his early years he performed a dance and acrobatic vaudeville act in Seattle theaters and attempted small acting roles.[1] His family moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s, and Rall began to appear in small movie roles. His first film appearance was a short MGM film called Vendetta. He began taking tap dancing lessons and became a member of the jitterbugging Jivin' Jacks and Jills at Universal Studios.[1][1] Rall joined Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan and Shirley Mills in several light wartime Andrews Sisters vehicles including Give Out, Sisters (1942)[2] Get Hep to Love (1942)[3] Mister Big, and others. He appeared in the films The North Star and Song of Russia (1944).[4] Rall took ballet lessons and danced in classical and Broadway shows, including Milk and Honey, Call Me Madam and Cry for Us All. Jerry Herman said of Rall in Milk and Honey: "[Donald] [Saddler] did extraordinary choreography for Tommy Rall, who was suddenly so admired by the audience that [the producer] put his name on the marquee under the three stars. It was very, very earned by him. He was a terrific singer and dancer."[5] He is best known for his acrobatic dancing in several classic musical films of the 1950s, including Kiss Me, Kate as "Bill" (1953),[6] Seven Brides for Seven Brothers as "Frank" (1954),[7] Invitation to the Dance (1956),[8] Merry Andrew as "Giacomo Gallini" (1958),[9] and My Sister Eileen as "Chick" (1955).[10]Rall's film career waned as movie musicals went into decline. He had a role in the movie Funny Girl, as "The Prince" in a parody of the ballet Swan Lake.[11] On Broadway he danced to acclaim as "Johnny" in Marc Blitzstein and Joseph Stein's 1959 musical Juno (based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock).[1] Ken Mandelbaum wrote: "DeMille provided two fine ballets: her second act 'Johnny' in which Tommy Rall danced out Johnny's emotions...was the evening's highlight."[12] Rall was highly respected by his contemporaries—including dance greats Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor—with the latter describing Rall as one of the “greatest dancers living...above Astaire and Kelly.”[13] Personal lifeRall was briefly married to his Juno co-star, Monte Amundsen.[12] He is now married to former ballerina Karel Shimoff.[14] In 2007, a dance instructor by the name of Fredric Brame was found to have been posing as Tommy Rall since the late 1960s. His biographies, resumes, and playbills all support that Brame was Fredric Brame aka Tommy Rall by the credits listed. When Rall found out about the masquerade decades later, through a friend of the family, Rall contacted the Montgomery County (Texas) Sheriff's office. No legal action was taken against Brame since he technically did not commit a crime. Rall only wanted Brame to stop taking credit for his work and if he continued or did it again a lawsuit would be filed.[15] FilmographySources: TCM;[16] MasterWorks Broadway[14] Features:
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Stage work, BroadwaySource: MasterWorksBroadway;[14] Internet Broadway Database[17]
References1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Full Biography: Tommy Rall|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/58568/Tommy-Rall/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104090818/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/58568/Tommy-Rall/biography|dead-url=yes|archive-date=4 November 2012|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=20 July 2012}} 2. ^Give Out, Sisters tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 3. ^Get Hep to Love tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 4. ^Song of Russia tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 5. ^Jones, Kenneth. "'Like a Young Man': Jerry Herman Talks About 'Milk and Honey'" Playbill, October 17, 2011 6. ^Kiss Me Kate tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 7. ^Seven Brides for Seven Brothers tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 8. ^Invitation to the Dance tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 9. ^Merry Andrew tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 10. ^My Sister Eileen tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 11. ^Funny Girl American Film Institute, accedded December 25, 2016 12. ^1 Mandelbaum, Ken. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AQFDtlD_mIwC&pg=PA313&lpg=PA313&dq=Juno+%22Tommy+Rall%22&source=bl&ots=jaT2K83zKW&sig=R5nrEqk9gVHcB-BQVnlnrgh0t0A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzgL_4u43RAhXq5YMKHbTODa84ChDoAQgcMAE Juno] Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops, Macmillan, 1992, {{ISBN|0312082738}}, p. 312 13. ^Aloff, Mindy. "Remembering a Hoofer. An Interview with Donald O'Connor, 1979" Dance View Times, 2003, accessed December 24, 2016 14. ^1 2 3 4 "Tommy Rall" .masterworksbroadway.com, accessed December 24, 2016 15. ^Lee, Renee. "Dance Teacher: decades of lies weren't my fault." Houston Chronicle 24Jun2007. n. pag. Weborn 15 October 2011. 16. ^"Tommy Rall Overview" tcm.com, accessed December 24, 2016 17. ^[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/tommy-rall-57002 "Tommy Rall Broadway"] ibdb.com, accessed December 24, 2016 Sources
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(vidéo Danse Routine - Tommy Rall & Ann Miller -Kiss me Kate film sur youtube.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P84-_7kCiQ {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rall, Tommy}} 10 : 1929 births|Living people|Artists from Kansas City, Missouri|American male ballet dancers|American male dancers|American male film actors|American male singers|American male musical theatre actors|American operatic tenors|American tap dancers |
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