What's your fav all-round performances

[stuart.uk]

What I'm looking for is perfomances that show acting, singing and if possible dancing. Here's my list

Judy Garland-A Star Is Born
James Cagney-Yankee Doddle Dandy
Doris Day-Love Me Or Leave Me
Elvis Presley-King Creole
Frank Sinatra-Young At Heart
Doris Day-Young At Heart
Jeanette Macdonald-San Francisco
Debbie Reynolds-How The West Was Won
Frank Sinatra-The Joker Is Wild
Fred Astaire@Ginger Rogers-The Vernon And Irene Castle Story
Elvis Presley-Jailhouse Rock
Julie Andrews-Star
Bette Midler-Beaches
Barbara Striesand-A Star Is Born
Judy Garland@Gene Kelly-For Me And My Gal
Greer Garson-Random Harvest
Angela Lansbury-Lawless Street
Anne Sheridan-Dodge City

[MissGoddess]

Fred Astaire - ALL of his movies. He's tops in this category for me.

Sinatra - Pal Joey, It Happened in Brooklyn

Doris Day - Young Man with a Horn

Audrey Hepburn - Funny Face

Clark Gable - Idiot's Delight

[MissGoddess]

Oh, and the Crosby & Hope "Road" pictures!!

[charliechaplinfan]

Gene Kelly - An American in Paris, Singin In The Rain, On The Town, Les Girls, Cover Girl

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in all their screen pairings

Cary Grant - The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Holiday, North By North West, Notorious

Barbara Stanwyck - Double Indemnity

Charlie Chaplin - the little fellow in everything, Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight

Buster Keaton - The General

Judy Garland - The Star is Born

Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot, The Apartment

Carole Lombard - Twentieth Century, My Man Godfrey, Nothing SAcred, To Be Or Not To Be

Lauren Bacall - To Have and Have Not - brilliant considering it was her first film

I'll have missed loads, I'll think some more.

[charliechaplinfan]

I forgot Jean Arthur in The More The Merrier

[myrnaloyisdope]

Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth (The final half hour might be the single greatest comedic performance I've ever seen)

Katharine Hepburn - Bringing Up Baby, Sylvia Scarlett, Holiday etc etc etc...

Mae Clarke in Waterloo Bridge

Cary Grant in His Girl Friday, Holiday, Bringing Up Baby etc etc etc...

Ginger Rogers in Stage Door

James Mason in Bigger Than Life

Myrna Loy in Love Me Tonight (she steals every scene she's in, and it's what made her a star)

Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men

Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, The Lady Eve

James Murray in The Crowd

Charlie Chaplin in The Kid

Woody Allen in Broadway Danny Rose

Lew Ayres in Holiday

Liza Minnelli in Cabaret

Judy Garland in A Star is Born

Kirk Douglas in Spartacus, Ace in the Hole, The Bad & The Beautiful etc etc etc...

[srowley75]

What I'm looking for is perfomances that show acting, singing and if possible dancing.

Heavens. Well, here are the ones that spring to my mind:

*Judy Garland in A Star is Born or Meet Me in St. Louis
*Fred Astaire in Top Hat
*Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth
*Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds in Singin' in the Rain
*Zero Mostel in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
*Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
*Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam
*Ann Miller in Kiss Me Kate
*Frank Sinatra in Guys and Dolls
*Doris Day in Calamity Jane
*James Cagney in Footlight Parade or Yankee Doodle Dandy
*Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
*Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles
*Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire
*Ginger Rogers in 42nd Street or Swing Time

I may be able to think of more later....

-Stephen

[stuart.uk]

Thanks for all your posts. What I was looking for was a performer, who combined an all round peformance in one film. For example it's not his best film by any means, but I picked out The Vernon And Irene Castle Story as the film where Fred Astaire combines his acting and musical talent