The Bandwagon

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backstage musical film

The Bandwagon is a 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.

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Label	Occurrences
The Bandwagon canonical	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	backstage musical ⓘ film ⓘ
artDirectionBy	Cedric Gibbons NERFINISHED ⓘ Preston Ames NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOn	The Band Wagon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Band Wagon (1931 Broadway revue) NERFINISHED ⓘ
choreographyBy	Michael Kidd NERFINISHED ⓘ
cinematographyBy	Harry Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ
colorProcess	Technicolor ⓘ
costumeDesignBy	Mary Ann Nyberg NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
director	Vincente Minnelli NERFINISHED ⓘ
distributor	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ
editedBy	Albert Akst NERFINISHED ⓘ
featuresDanceSequence	Girl Hunt Ballet NERFINISHED ⓘ
featuresSong	By Myself NERFINISHED ⓘ Dancing in the Dark NERFINISHED ⓘ I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan NERFINISHED ⓘ Shine on Your Shoes NERFINISHED ⓘ That’s Entertainment! NERFINISHED ⓘ Triplets NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	comedy ⓘ musical ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ
leadCharacter	Gabrielle Gerard NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ
lyricsBy	Howard Dietz NERFINISHED ⓘ
musicBy	Arthur Schwartz NERFINISHED ⓘ
narrativeTheme	revival of a fading star’s career ⓘ romance between dance partners ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
portrays	backstage show business ⓘ
producer	Arthur Freed NERFINISHED ⓘ
productionCompany	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ
recognizedAs	classic Hollywood musical ⓘ
recognizedFor	backstage showbiz storyline ⓘ sophisticated song-and-dance numbers ⓘ
releaseDate	1953-08-07 ⓘ
releaseYear	1953 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	112 ⓘ
screenwriter	Adolph Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Betty Comden NERFINISHED ⓘ
setIn	Broadway theatre world ⓘ New York City ⓘ
starring	Cyd Charisse NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Astaire NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Buchanan NERFINISHED ⓘ James Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Nanette Fabray NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: The Bandwagon
Description of subject: The Bandwagon is a 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.

Referenced by (1)

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