*** Movie (Plus) Dance Sequences 2....the sequel ***

Link to first thread....

Betty Anderson.....

Jane Powell keeps up with Fred quite well in "Royal Wedding" and even keeps in tough, gum-chewing character for the curtain call!

MARY!

Toby TYLER!

Grace MOORE

"Depuis le jour" from "Louise"

Sorry I couldn't find a dancing-er one of Grace Moore, but she sounded great!

Julian would come off ever so much better backed by boys!

See?

Totally agree, Kay!

Roz gettin' tossed around....

Nitty Gritty

Jayne dances....

This.....

Love this. No dance thread would be complete without the June Taylor dancers!

R15 Yer killin' us!

The original Tap Dogs, Live in London (1996)...

Little Sammy Davis, Jr. (age 6)...

The pure technical wizardry of Savion Glover...

The great Jimmy Slyde teaches us how it's done...

Astaire and Rogers on skates singing "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" from Shall We Dance (1937). Dancing starts @ 3:15...

Angie.....

Anyone a fan?

I remember that Sally Rand was a contestant on Groucho Marx's "You Bet Your Life" when they showed in reruns years ago. They talked to each other vaudevillian to vaudevillian.

Gene Kelly's Emmy-winning dance with the Woggle-Birds. Priceless. From the comments

[quote]This is from Hanna-Barbera's 1967 live action/animation TV adaptation of "Jack and the Beanstalk," which I loved as a kid. It was the last song-and-dance film Gene Kelly directed and starred in, and it's one of his forgotten great moments—especially this number, which should have become a tango standard like "Hernando's Hideaway."

From Toni Basil, "the girl with the red dress on" in "What'd I Say?" from Viva Las Vegas...

[quote]Over the Months of rehearsing with Anne-Margret and Elvis Presley, David Winters and I became close friends with them . David the choreographer and I worked on many musical numbers for this film. Here’s "What'd I Say?" where I got to be the girl with the red dress on. The great George Sydney directed this film. Lance Lagualt is playing gutar in Elvis band he was Elvis's right hand man and was always his dance-in. in all of Elvis's films. David, Lance and I put together the choreography and then taught it to Elvis and Anne separately before we brought them together . Here I are the names of as many dancers as I can recognize: Teri Garr, Pete Menefee, Sharon Garret Brooks, Lorine Yarnell, Lance LeGault, Raul Ciro, Sonja Haney, Erwin Marcus, Harrad Sanders, and Roberta Tennis Doitch.

Doris Day and Gene Nelson tap wonderfully in "Tea For Two" with vocal support from Gordon MacRae. RIP, Doris/Eunice!

R28 Nice choice. Love the hand claps and finger snaps. Speaking of TV, years later Nelson appeared on an episode of "You Bet Your Life" and did a tap routine with Groucho's daughter, Melinda, who doesn't disappoint @ 14:00...

Lucy and Ann-Margret -- as Autograph Annie and Celebrity Lu

Sheree and Jacques...

From this small sample I think we can all agree that Lucy was no triple threat.

She moved well, though.

Judy & Jack

That was adorable!

Watch this number. Carol is perfectly lovely in this number. Now....

A better number for Miss Lawrence.....

I'm adding bubbles to my act.

But Beverly "Bubbles" Sills has been dead quite a long time now.

[quote]I'm adding bubbles to my act.

#MeToo

BUBBLES......featuring the Gumm Sisters!

This number is exhausting....

I can't go through 600 posts, so I'm just going to assume no-one has mentioned one of my favorites:

Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez in "Shall We Dance?"

R43 Awww!

Toni Basil choreographed Viva Las Vegas?!?! The Oh Mickey singer? How old is she?

Toni Basil was 39 when "Mickey" hit #1 on the Billboard singles chart in December 1982.

She is 75 years old (born September 1943).

Cyd Charisse in the "Red Blues" number from "Silk Stockings."

Cyd Charisse was transcendent.

Gene Kelly's most excellent assets *ahem* are on full display in this graceful ballet with Cyd Charisse from Brigadoon (1954)...

I watched r43 and immediately called CPS.

More of the Gumm Sisters....

For the boys....

Gene Kelly TV special where he dances a slow version of Ballin' the Jack solo (Hot. As. Fuck.) joined by the amazing Donald O'Connor...

Rare footage of Gene Kelly on Broadway in Pal Joey (1940), the role that made him a star...

[quote]Silent, colour and black and white 8mm home movies shot by June Havoc of the original production of PAL JOEY starring Gene Kelly, Vivienne Segal, Van Johnson and Stanley Donen, as well as Havoc herself. (June Havoc as in "Baby June", Gypsy Rose Lee's sister.) These were shot from the house and from the wings on stage right and left, by either Ms. Havoc or a friend. Once thought lost, these films were rediscovered by Michael Feinstein.

That sequence of Cyd Charisse from Silk Stockings is sublime. I remember seeing that at the Sewickley Theater back in 1957, and just being carried away by it.

I was 8.

(Interestingly, that music cue was included on the original MGM soundtrack lp, though I recall the lp cue was longer. Seems like there are a few jump cuts in the sequence on film.)

The high school dance contest in "Grease" (1978).

That dance sequence was tasteless and vulgar.

R58 Travolta was a damn good dancer and sooooo pretty in pink. Too bad he's been of no help to us in his glass closet and lavender marriage.

Toni Basil

Mr. Tune

And....

The title song from "Xanadu" (1980).

Gene Kelly roller-skating! Mr. Kelly was 67 when he appeared in Xanadu. It was his final film role.

The song "Xanadu" is performed by Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra.

Donna does Rose....

Get Happy, bitches!

Get....

Rita Hayworth dances to "You Excite Me" in Tonight and Every Night (1945). From TCM...

[quote]Tonight and Every Night is first and foremost a Rita Hayworth vehicle. She made it between Cover Girl (1944) and Gilda, which means she is at the absolute peak of her physical beauty. Moreover, she is a dancing tour de force; while her singing voice is dubbed, her dancing is her own, and her sensual samba number "You Excite Me" is one of the best numbers she ever did. Helping matters, of course, was the aforementioned Jack Cole. As Columbia house composer Fred Karger later noted, "Rita realized how much [Cole] could help her and responded to him. Nothing is too much for her when she believes in somebody. She wasn't crazy about doing any more musicals - but Harry [Cohn] didn't give her a choice. Cole, however, managed to enthuse her."

[quote]Cole also said, "She did not have a good figure, but she has beautiful breasts, beautiful arms and the most beautiful hands in show business...As a young woman she was always a much more beautiful person than she photographed, 'cause they did really icky Columbia make-up for star ladies, with that too hard glossy mouth."

[quote]Costume designer Jean Louis, who dressed Hayworth for the first time on this film, said simply, "She had a good body. It wasn't difficult to dress her...She worked very hard. Often she would arrive for fittings from dance rehearsals and her feet still bleeding. But she never complained or refused to do anything... She also had a belly then, but we could hide that. That's what my job was." Hayworth was married to Orson Welles at the time and was pregnant with their daughter Rebecca, and as filming went on, Louis indeed had to think of creative ways to mask the pregnancy. The two became lifelong friends and collaborators.

[quote]Choreographer Cole actually dances with Rita on screen in this movie, in a number called "What Does an English Girl Think of a Yank?" He stepped in when the scheduled male dancer sprained his ankle. Cole was unprepared for Hayworth's intensity: "So I rehearse with Rita a couple of times and we're ready to start. Well, baby, I don't know what hit me when they turned the camera on... When it was for real, it was like 'Look out!' Suddenly this mass of red hair comes hurtling at me, and it looked like ninety times more teeth than I ever saw in a woman's mouth before and more eyes rolling, and was the most animated object ever."

Stomp.....

The latest.....

Get hep....

Brooke tries.......

The legendary Ida Nevasayneva.......

Fred Astaire defying gravity (and how it was done)...

... and sixty-plus years later, Derek and Jaime Goodwin take it to the next level on DWTS...

[quote]From Toni Basil, "the girl with the red dress on" in "What'd I Say?" from Viva Las Vegas...

More Toni Basil along with Terri Garr and Dorothy Lamour too!

The late great Candy Johnson-

Roxie taps!

I'm posting this because the first time I saw the circus was in this same tent, the famous Ringling Bros. Big Top. I was only 3 or 4 years old and still remember the afternoon vividly. I was dazzled. I was hoping to find one of the bigger circus sequences but this will have to do.

Who among us still has their buffer belt?

R81, that's what hoop skirts were for. A woman's circle of modesty.

Now why did you do that, r83? Now we all want to see this:

3 GIRLS 3

Baryshnikov and Browne in The Turning Point (1977)...

Ravishing, as always, r84. But of course,.audiences never clapped during the polka in the last revival. Why? Unless the King takes command and flings Anna across the dance floor like a puppet, it won't happen. Audiences wait all evening long just for that. Corrupt them with pleasure.*

R87, did you see it with Kelli or with our late Marin? One of them made the moment work and got the response; the other one got the Tony..

I saw it twice with the former, once with the latter, and it never got applause.

Let's dance.....

Where......?

More brilliance from Mr. Robbins.....

The effervescent Jessie.....

Toro! Toro! Toro!

Tapa-tapa-Tracey.....

twist

Dixie and Fats....

The Scarecrow and Betty (Princess) Anderson.....

R103 Pretty steamy for that era.

ZIZI!

Tappin' to the beat of four different drummers...

I had NO idea Caterina was a hoofer, r107!

R108 Amazing, right? She's a natural.

Jiveroo....

PM&L getting a bit terpsichorean....

The things you find on the 'Tube...

Danny Thomas introduces Eleanor Powell in TV debut...

Powell in Born to Dance (1936) rehearsal scene...

Now, now, r112....THIS is Miss Bruce's true claim to terpsichorean immortality.

R115 Point taken; our eardrums have scarcely recovered from the onslaught.

Betty Jane Cooper.....

Earlier version of R12...

Carmen Miranda in Technicolor...

Debbie in the Loo-

Ann Miller dances to Cole Porter in Kiss Me, Kate (1953)...

Lesser known Ann Miller performance from Deep in My Heart (1954), directed by Stanley Donen...

Kelly and Gaynor dance to Cole Porter in Les Girls...

Miss Lawrence got rhythm.....

Gregory Hines dances as Bill 'Bojangles 'Robinson on Broadway @ 54:42...

Neely goes groovy!

Sheree!

Bonnie & Maxine....

Moira in blue shoes....

Bobby & Jane

Vera Ellen was a fanatic dancer, you could tell she was also trained in classical ballet in addition to tap.

Ginge.....