In the 1960s, the idea of sending up popular culture was so fresh it could still be considered daring — “Monster Mash” was a Top 10 Halloween hit in 1962 and Batman was on TV in 1966, the same year ...

Just two years after Susan Sontag wrote her 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” the musical “Dames at Sea” opened at the tiny Manhattan cabaret Caffé Cino. The so-bad-it’s-good aesthetic had been given a name ...

Warner Bros. has optioned the biography Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley, written by Jeffrey Spivak. THR reports Ryan Gosling and Marc Platt (Drive) will produce. They are developing the ...

As soon as movies began to talk, they started to sing, and to dance. Finally, music and dance could be recorded together in sync for exhibition to mass audiences and preserved for future generations.

Reimagining the Busby Berkeley-era extravaganza in miniature, the 1968 off-Broadway hit shuffles uptown with its perky homage to 1930s movie musicals. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Whether there’s ...

Ryan Gosling (inset) is considering playing director and choreographer Busby Berkeley, who directed the 1934 flick "Dames" (main). Getty Images; Everett Collection The week’s most surprising movie ...

Musical parody of large, flashy 1930’s Busby Berkeley-style musical in which a chorus girl, newly arrived off the bus from the Midwest to New York City steps into a role on Broadway and becomes a star ...

Few remember the men who directed the Warner Bros. talkies of the early 1930s, and yet choreographer Busby Berkeley remains a legend some 70 years later. Warner's new "Busby Berkeley Collection" ...

The classic films of director and choreographer Busby Berkeley often featured hundreds of dancers performing routines for Broadway musicals that could never fit on a real stage. But "Dames at Sea," ...

FROM 1933 through 1938, choreographer and director Busby Berkeley created surreal, swirling and outrageously extravagant musical numbers for Warner Bros. musicals. Berkeley loved tight close-ups of ...