Film: Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Monday 23 January, 19:00
Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
£6/£4.20/Friends free
Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Dir: George Sidney
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ann Miller, Howard Keel
Running time: 109mins
Cert: U

The quarrels of a husband and his ex-wife erupt on stage and threaten the performance of a musical version of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in this MGM version of Cole Porter’s Broadway musical. That it was originally filmed in 3D gives it a strange quality that enhances the play-within-a-film device and Ann Miller all but steals the film from Howard Keel in one of his best film roles.