This one's for anyone who lived through the mid-to-late 40s and beyond. Back when musicals weren't sociopolitical statements, and the most beautiful actress in Hollywood could actually dance as well as she looked.

Barry Gibb is reportedly in bad health these days, which may have been why "Stayin' Alive" got chosen as music for this brilliantly-edited clip. Watch the timing here: it's exquisitely-matched to the beat of a tune some 40 years after this movies these excerpts came from.

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/something_wonderful_rita.php

Hat tip to American Digest.org.

Marvelous.  I still love those old 40's musicals.

But the clip reminded me of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I forget now who pointed it out, but as good as Fred was, he pointed out that Rogers matched him step for step and did it backwards and in heels.   

Swing Time - Rogers and Astaire

And here's another modern-sound-track bit, showing Fred, Ginger....and Rita.

Fred & Ginger & Rita: Dancing In The Street

Quote from: quiller on April 26, 2012, 12:54:00 PM
This one's for anyone who lived through the mid-to-late 40s and beyond. Back when musicals weren't sociopolitical statements, and the most beautiful actress in Hollywood could actually dance as well as she looked.

Barry Gibb is reportedly in bad health these days, which may have been why "Stayin' Alive" got chosen as music for this brilliantly-edited clip. Watch the timing here: it's exquisitely-matched to the beat of a tune some 40 years after this movies these excerpts came from.

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/something_wonderful_rita.php

Hat tip to American Digest.org.

Yes!!    thanks for the memory q

Quote from: PeterR on April 26, 2012, 01:38:09 PM
Marvelous.  I still love those old 40's musicals.

But the clip reminded me of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I forget now who pointed it out, but as good as Fred was, he pointed out that Rogers matched him step for step and did it backwards and in heels.

Yes she did lol

Myself I alway like Gene Kelly over Fred Astaire.

I have enjoyed this thread Q.....gives me a break from being meaner than he......well just plain mean.

Quote from: quiller on April 26, 2012, 12:54:00 PM
This one's for anyone who lived through the mid-to-late 40s and beyond. Back when musicals weren't sociopolitical statements, and the most beautiful actress in Hollywood could actually dance as well as she looked.

Barry Gibb is reportedly in bad health these days, which may have been why "Stayin' Alive" got chosen as music for this brilliantly-edited clip. Watch the timing here: it's exquisitely-matched to the beat of a tune some 40 years after this movies these excerpts came from.

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/something_wonderful_rita.php

Hat tip to American Digest.org.

Thank you, Quill, from the bottom of my heart. She was truly a beautiful and talented great actress. There was a cadre of those types of ladies that came out of Hollywood when musicals and great movies were at their heyday. I will send this to my wife's laptop as she truly loves the old musicals.

I sat through many a film watching her, Cyd Charise, Mitzi Gaynor, and others strut their stuff.

Thanks again.

Quote from: Shooterman on April 26, 2012, 02:49:48 PM
Thank you, Quill, from the bottom of my heart. She was truly a beautiful and talented great actress. There was a cadre of those types of ladies that came out of Hollywood when musicals and great movies were at their heyday. I will send this to my wife's laptop as she truly loves the old musicals.

I sat through many a film watching her, Cyd Charise, Mitzi Gaynor, and others strut their stuff.

Thanks again.

Glad you liked it!

Quote from: walkstall on April 26, 2012, 02:07:42 PM
Myself I alway like Gene Kelly over Fred Astaire.

Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly - "The Babbit & The Bromide" (1945)

Any dance you can do I can do better

Cyd Charise.....

Cyd Charisse in 'Meet me in Las Vegas'

...and Gene Kelly, hatting up for adventure....

Singin' in the Rain - Cyd Charisse & Gene Kelly

Same song, different eras.....

Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B"

Burn the Floor " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy " Sing, Sing, Sing "

Quote from: quiller on April 26, 2012, 06:08:39 PM
Cyd Charise.....

Cyd Charisse in 'Meet me in Las Vegas'

...and Gene Kelly, hatting up for adventure....

Singin' in the Rain - Cyd Charisse & Gene Kelly

Lawdy, that woman had legs that reached forever.

I don't think there's a need for a "Gene Kelly vs. Fred Astaire" fight. It's like arguing about which is better: the .454 Casull or the .223 Remington.

I like 'em both.

Quote from: quiller on April 26, 2012, 06:21:57 PM
Same song, different eras.....

Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B"

Burn the Floor " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy " Sing, Sing, Sing "

The second group were not the Andrews Sisters, for certain. The production seemed far overdone for my taste.

And though, Sing, Sing, Sing was a masterful big band jazz song, I never looked on it as particularly a dance song. The music got lost in watching the dancing in the video. Just my personal taste.