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That's Dancing! (1985)

The history of dance depicted on film.

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A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the music videos from the 80s. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <[email protected]>

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18 January 1985 (USA)  »

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Opening Weekend USA:

$1,506,802, 20 January 1985, Wide Release

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$4,210,938
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A multitude of well-known players, such as Ann-Margret, Joan Crawford, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Jack Haley, June Haver and Gene Nelson, James Stewart, Joan McCracken, Esther Williams, Frank Sinatra, Tarita, Taina Elg, José Iturbi, Doris Day, Judy Holliday and Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, Marge Champion, Gower Champion and the Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) dancers, appear only in brief film clips behind the opening credits, and nowhere else in the film, leading one to believe that a great deal of footage intended to be included never made the final cut. See more »

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Mikhail Baryshnikov: More than any other of the greatest artists of the Impressionist era, Degas was fascinated by the powerful and exciting world of ballet. The flowing movements of ballerinas on stage. The candid poses of young dancers waiting in the wings, in the rehearsal halls and in dance classes. All this, Degas captured on canvas after canvas. Degas was enchanted by what he called the ethereal like illusion of the ballet and, he wrote, "the hard work behind it, which the public doesn't suspect." Today, a ...
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Features Dames (1934) See more »

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Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Performed by Tucker Smith, Russ Tamblyn, Bert Michaels and others from the film West Side Story (1961)
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Great Stuff From The Classic Masters
8 June 2006 | by – See all my reviews

Here's an outstanding collection of some of the great dance numbers from the early 1930s to the mid 1980s.

From the early years, I've always found it fun to marvel at the talent of Ruby Keeler, Eleanor Powell, Fred Astaire, Bill Robinson, Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly, etc. Here they all are on one tape! What a great tribute to these great entertainers and perhaps it can turn people on to watching some of these great musicals of the past.

I'm also always awed at those great sets on the Busby Berkley extravaganzas. They were incredible. The more you like tap dancing, which I do, the better this tape (or disc, now that it's out on DVD) will look to you, but there are other forms of dance featured in here, too.


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