Retrospect: Check out Shearing’s collaborations with Mel Torme, or my favorite, The Swingin’s Mutual, the 1960 stunner with Nancy Wilson.

Retrospect: The Producers, yeah, sure, but don’t forget Mars in Woody Allen’s Radio Days and Shadows and Fog–and what a crackup in What’s Up Doc?.

A nonpareil in movie musicals until the Hollywood Blacklist killed her career.  Retrospect: Her in My Sister Eileen (above, with Jack Lemmon) or as Hildy in On the Town (try to ignore how MGM shreds Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway score to pieces).