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Hollywood Golden Age of Cinema @HGACinema - Video: Cyd Charisse dances to “Blue Room” accompanied by Perry Como in the 1948 film “Words and Music”.
Perry Como’s appearance here was part of a concerted effort by MGM to develop Como into a movie star. Those efforts came to a grinding halt when Como, coerced into singing “Happy Birthday” to studio head Louis B. Mayer against his will, improvised some impolite alternative lyrics.
Mayer was so incensed at Como’s insubordination that he immediately dropped the vocalist’s contract and vowed to “blackball” him at every other studio in Hollywood. Como’s movie career effectively ended, but he enjoyed long-lasting success as both a recording and television star.
https://x.com/HGACinema/status/2016120854925758502

InfantryDort @infantrydort - Since everyone is getting so flummoxed about why so few believe what they do, I’ve done a little homework.
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This is revolutionary participation of a population over the last 250 years:
American Revolution (1775–83) ~3–5%
French Revolution (1789–99) ~1–2%
Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) ~5–10%
Mexican Independence (1810–21) ~2–4%
Russian Revolution (1917) ~0.5–1%
CHICOM Revolt (1927–49) ~1–3%
Spanish Civil War (1936–39) ~3–6%
Cuban Revolution (1953–59) ~1%