The rest is history.
接着便创造了历史
O’CONNOR: MGM featured Esther
in a series of spectacular productions.
米高梅让她主演了一系列豪华大♥片♥
During her career, she swam…
在其演艺生涯中,她曾和米高梅
…opposite some of MGM’s
most popular leading men.
好些最著名的男主角演过对手戏
Some of them even got their hair wet.
其中不少还成了落汤鸡
Like Howard Keel…
像是霍华德·基尔、
…Fernando Lamas,
whom she would later marry…
后来与她结婚的Fernando Lamas、
…Van Johnson…
范·强生、
…Peter Lawford…
彼得·罗福、
…Ricardo Montalban…
Ricardo Montalban、
…even Tom and Jerry.
甚至汤姆和杰瑞
Jimmy Durante…
还有Jimmy Durante
…and Red Skelton.
和雷德·斯克尔顿
As her fame grew…
随着名气的高涨,
…so did the size and population
of her swimming pools.
她的泳池规模也在扩大
Esther no longer could simply climb up
a diving board and jump in.
埃丝特不能再简单地爬上跳板
一跃而下了事
Now, she had to be presented
like Venus…
现在她必须如金星出海般
…rising from the sea.
隆重出场
In the ranks of great musical stars,
there have been singers, dancers…
著名歌♥舞片明星之中,有歌♥手,有舞者,
…musicians, even ice skaters.
有音乐家,甚至还有滑冰运动员
But MGM saw to it
there was only one Esther Williams.
但米高梅始终确保只能有一个埃丝特·威廉斯
[LAUGHS]
Eat your heart out, Mark Spitz.
很羡慕吧,Mark Spitz (1972年慕尼黑奥♥运♥会美国游泳冠军)
People say that performers
are overly affectionate with one another.
人们常说演员之间过分痴迷
And that may be true.
也许是吧
I don’t have to apologize
for the way I feel…
对一位曾经和我在米高梅
…about a young lady
that I worked with here at MGM.
共事过的年轻女士怀有爱意
I love her.
对此我不必表示歉意
And she’s as big a hit
right now on Broadway…
现在她在百老汇的成就
…as she was here in Hollywood.
不下于当年她在好莱坞的成就
She never stops.
她从不止步
Miss Debbie Reynolds.
有请黛比·雷诺斯小姐
I made my first movie for MGM
back in 1950.
我为米高梅出演的第一部
影片要回溯到1950年
[CLEARS THROAT]
Remember Three Little Words?
还记得那三个小单词吗?
Hey, fellas, can we borrow your piano
just a minute?
嗨,伙计们,能借你们的钢琴用一会吗?
REYNOLDS: Of course, the real stars were
Fred Astaire and Red Skelton…
当然,真正的主演是弗雷德·阿斯泰尔
和雷德·斯克尔顿
…but see that funny-looking kid
coming down the steps?
看到那个走下阶梯、
样子滑稽的小孩了吗?
Look out, Hollywood. Here I come.
好莱坞,当心,我来了
ASTAIRE [SINGING]:
I wanna be loved by you alone
Boop-boop-bee-doo
I wanna be loved by you
Just you
And nobody else but you
I wanna be loved by you
Alone
REYNOLDS: Carleton Carpenter and I only
did this one number in the picture.
卡列顿·卡朋特和我在影片中只
出演了这个剧目
But it certainly helped our careers.
但对我们的事业却帮助很大
Even though the voice wasn’t mine…
哪怕连声音也不是我的
…MGM brought in the song’s originator,
Helen Kane, to sing the vocal.
是米高梅请这首歌♥的原唱Helen Kane
来配的声音
[SINGING]
And make you my own
Bap-bap-bee-dap
Boop-boop-ba-doo
I wanna be loved by you
Just you
And nobody else but you
I wanna be loved by you
Bap-bap-bee-dap-bee-dap-bee-dap
Boop-boop-ba-doo
REYNOLDS:
When I first reported at the studio…
我第一次到米高梅报到时,
…MGM was celebrating
its 25th anniversary.
正值公♥司♥成立25周♥年♥庆♥典
They had converted the biggest
sound stage on the lot into a restaurant.
他们把最大的摄影棚改成餐厅
They only served one meal, but it was
a lunch that old-timers still talk about.
这里只举♥行♥一次宴会,但老员工们至今
仍对此次盛会津津乐道
The studio used to boast that it had
more stars than there are in the heavens.
公♥司♥曾夸耀说自家的影星多如天上繁星
And that day, they weren’t kidding.
放在那一天来看,倒不是说笑
The first time I met the king,
Clark Gable…
我第一次见到电影皇帝克拉克·盖博时
…he looked down at me and said,
“Hello, beautiful.”
他俯视着我说道:“你好啊,小美人”
And I nearly fainted.
我差点昏过去
This place was the land of giants,
and I was a small fry.
这里是巨人之乡,而我只是个无名小卒
But like any other young hopeful,
I was determined…
但是,如同其他希望成功的年轻人一样,
我下定决心
…that somehow and someday
I’d measure up.
无论如何总有一天要跻身其中
In the early 1950s…
到了50年代初
…MGM was entering
a new era of motion pictures…
米高梅跨入电影史上的新时期
…with more star power…
公♥司♥的明星阵容实力
…than virtually every other studio
in Hollywood combined.
几乎超过好莱坞其他电影公♥司♥的总和
[SINGING] I’ve gotta hear that beat
I’ve gotta hear those drums
And even when it comes to romance
When I feel that I might fall
I always stall and play it smart
Till I hear that beat
I’ve gotta hear that beat
That certain beat in my heart
REYNOLDS: Ann Miller,
the best tap-dancing lady on the lot.
安妮·米勒是片厂里最优秀的踢踏舞♥女♥星
Annie’s talents and Busby Berkeley’s
imaginative direction…
在《小城女孩》里,安妮的才能和
布斯比·伯克利富于想像的导演技术
…were a perfect combination
in Small Town Girl.
构成完美组合
[SINGING]
Be my love
For no one else can…
REYNOLDS: A truck driver from Philadelphia
became the most sensational new voice…
一名来自费城的货车司机为电影界带来
…in motion pictures.
最一鸣惊人的嗓音
Mario Lanza. He made only a few films.
马里奥·兰扎
他只拍过几部电影
And The Toast of New Orleans
with Kathryn Grayson was one of his best.
和凯瑟琳·格雷森搭档的《新奥良的祝酒词》
是其佳作之一
[SINGING] Just fill my arms
The way you’ve filled my dreams
The dreams that you inspire
With every sweet desire
Be my love
And with your kisses set me burning
One kiss is all I need to seal my fate
And hand in hand
We’ll find love’s promised land
There’ll be no one but you for me
Eternally
If you will be
My love
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Don’t you know
Everyone wants to laugh
REYNOLDS:
Donald O’Connor in Singin’ in the Rain…
《万花嬉春》里,唐纳德·奥康纳表演的这段
…in my opinion, the funniest
musical number ever done.
我认为是歌♥舞片史上最滑稽搞笑的剧目
O’CONNOR [SINGING]:
They’ll be standin’ in lines
For those old honky-tonk monkeyshines
Or you could study Shakespeare
And be quite elite
And you can charm the critics
And have nothin’ to eat
Just slip on a banana peel
The world’s at your feet
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Don’t you know
Everyone wants to laugh
My grandpa said
Go out and tell ’em a joke
But give it plenty of hoke
Make ’em roar, make ’em scream
Take a fall, butt a wall, split a seam
You start off by pretending
You’re a dancer with grace
You wiggle ’till they’re giggling
All over the place
And then you get a great big
Custard pie in the face
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Don’t you… All the…
My dad…
They’ll be standing in lines