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That's Dancing!

1985

1h 45m

6.97

Documentary, Music

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.

Cast

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Self - Host

Ray Bolger

Self - Host

Sammy Davis Jr.

Self - Host

Gene Kelly

Self - Host

Liza Minnelli

Self - Host

Fred Astaire

Self (archive footage)

Jennifer Beals

Francesca Bellini

'West Side Story' dancer

Busby Berkeley

Self (archive footage)

Erik Bruhn

From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)

James Cagney

From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (archive footage)

Cyd Charisse

Dan Dailey

George Chakiris

Bernardo

Arlene Dahl

From 'Three Little Words' (archive footage)

Leroy Daniels

From 'The Band Wagon' (archive footage)

Gloria DeHaven

From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)

Isadora Duncan

Buddy Ebsen

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)

Taina Elg

From 'Les Girls' (archive footage)

Harvey Evans

'West Side Story' dancer

Eliot Feld

'West Side Story' dancer

Bob Fosse

Loïe Fuller

Judy Garland

Betty Garrett

Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)

Kathryn Grayson

From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)

Barbara Hancock

From 'Finian's Rainbow' (archive footage)

Carol Haney

Robert Helpmann

From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)

Tab Hunter

From 'Damn Yankees' (archive footage)

Michael Jackson

Marine Jahan

From 'Flashdance' (archive footage)

Zizi Jeanmaire

From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)

Danny Kaye

From 'White Christmas' (archive footage)

Howard Keel

From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)

Ruby Keeler

From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)

Paula Kelly

From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)

Michael Kidd

From 'It's Always Fair Weather' (archive footage)

Frances Langford

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)

Shirley MacLaine

Bert Michaels

'West Side Story' dancer

Ann Miller

Una Merkel

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)

Patsy Ruth Miller

From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)

George Murphy

From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)

Fayard Nicholas

From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)

Harold Nicholas

From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)

Rudolf Nureyev

Donald O'Connor

Anna Pavlova

Dick Powell

Eleanor Powell

Jane Powell

Harve Presnell

From 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' (archive footage)

Juliet Prowse

From 'Can-Can' (archive footage)

Ron Randell

From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)

Chita Rivera

From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)

Ginger Rogers

Reiko Sato

From 'Kismet' (archive footage)

Wini Shaw

From 'Gold Diggers of 1935' (archive footage)

Moira Shearer

From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)

Phil Silvers

From 'Cover Girl' (archive footage)

Sid Silvers

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)

Red Skelton

From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)

Tucker Smith

'West Side Story' dancer

Lyle Talbot

Self

Russ Tamblyn

Lilyan Tashman

From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)

Scooter Teague

Shirley Temple

Tamara Toumanova

From 'Tonight We Sing' (archive footage)

Bobby Van

From 'Small Town Girl' and 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)

Vera-Ellen

Gwen Verdon

Lola (archive footage)

Esther Williams

From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)

David Winters

'West Side Story' dancer

Vera Zorina

From 'On Your Toes' (archive footage)

Debbie Reynolds

Bill Robinson

Tommy Abbott

'West Side Story' dancer

Robert Banas

'West Side Story ' dancer

David Bean

'West Side Story' dancer

Carole D'Andrea

'West Side Story' dancer

Charles Laskey

From 'On Your Toes' (archive footage)

Tony Mordente

'West Side Story' dancer

Susan Oakes

'West Side Story' dancer

Lauren Peterson

Ballet student with Gene Kelly

Alex Romero

From 'On the Town' (archive footage)

Gina Trikonis

'West Side Story' dancer

Yuriko

From 'The King and I' (archive footage)

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