Debbie Reynolds credited as playing...
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- Debbie Reynolds: In "Torch Song", Joan Crawford made her final musical film as a fading legend, performing in tropical make-up, for the song "Two-Faced Woman". The recording wasn't a new one at MGM. Sung by voice-double India Adams, it has originally been used with Cyd Charisse for "The Band Wagon", but was cut from the final film. Its been suggested that they may have dropped the wrong version.
- Debbie Reynolds: I was only 16 and still Mary Francis Reynolds, when I entered the Miss Burbank contest. I did it as a lark to get a blouse and a scarf they were giving away to all the contestants. Well, as fate would have it, an MGM talent scout was in the audience and in a year I was under contract to the biggest studio in Hollywood.
- Debbie Reynolds: It was at MGM that I learned the workings of the studio's glamour mill, comprised of dozens of talented artists and technicians who make MGM's leading ladies appear on the screen as images of unsurpassed beauty.
- Debbie Reynolds: Gorgeous gowns created by the world famous designer Adrian, were part of the treatment; as well as make-up and hair departments, they could accomplish any style imaginable. A star like Joan Crawford would sometimes have her look redesigned numerous times until it matched the exact mood of the role she was to play. The studio prided itself in presenting some of the most glamorous women seen anywhere in the world.
- Debbie Reynolds: In the early 1940s, Hollywood began a fascination with things tropical and south of the border - and MGM was no exception. Exotic rhythms and costumes, transported audiences away from cold climates and the trouble times of a world war... Many latin artists were recruited to add an authentic sound to these films.
- Debbie Reynolds: Ricardo Montalban became a sensation at Metro as the latin lover, driving female audiences wild! Here with Ann Miller and Cyd Charisse from "The Kissing Bandit", there doesn't seem to be enough Ricardo to go around.