Kay Thompson (71 page)

(12) With protégés Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin.

(13) Performing “Down With Love” in the Boston tryout of Vincente Minnelli’s
Hooray for What!
October 28, 1937. Kay was fired on November 5.

(14) With Ed Wynn in
Hooray for What!

(15) Kay’s movie debut, 1937.

(16) With director John H. Auer and Joe DiMaggio on set of
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
.

(17)
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round:
Jack Jenney, Joe DiMaggio, Kay, John H. Auer, Henry Armetta, and Thompson’s Rhythm Singers.

(18)

(19) Kay’s first husband, bandleader-trombonist Jack Jenney, 1937.

(20) Kay and her Rhythm Singers in
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
.

(21) At the
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
premiere, 1937.

(22) Advising Lena Horne,
Till the Clouds Roll By,
MGM, 1945.

(23) Kay demonstrates her arrangements for
Till the Clouds Roll By
. Ringsiders: Jerome Kern, Lennie Hayton, Lucille Bremer, Arthur Freed, and Roger Edens.

(24) Coaching June Allyson,
Good News,
MGM, 1947.

(25) For Arthur Freed’s birthday in 1945, Roger Edens and Kay posed with his cake and a potpourri of favorite things.