Anne Billson

1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Anne Billson

   Human harps, massive bananas and dogging: the 20 best Busby Berkeley dance routines – ranked! (opens the original)

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   To mark 50 years since the director and choreographer’s death, we count down his best fantastical, kaleidoscopic numbers, from erotic silhouettes to sinister tap dancers So you thought Cats (2019) was tacky? Wait until you see Ruby Keeler (AKA Mrs Al Jolson) gambolling around as a fluffy white feline, being wooed by an ogling tomcat, or chasing Billy Barty, a child actor with dwarfism, costumed as a mouse. Joan Blondell (seven months pregnant during filming) livens up workaday laundry tasks by

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2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Anne Billson

   Tall tales: the 20 best giants in film – ranked! (opens the original)

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   On the 300th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, we celebrate the biggest film stars of them all – from a stone colossus to a metal-munching alien and a 50ft woman on the rampage Not a first-person-shooter BFG, alas, but one of Steven Spielberg’s worst films, reducing Roald Dahl’s story to digital pap. Mo-cap Mark Rylance, whose cutesy ungrammatical babbling should have been left on the printed page, is the 24ft Big Friendly Giant who kidnaps an orphan girl, Sophie. Ugh. Big Creepy Giant,

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