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The history of dance depicted on film.The history of dance depicted on film.The history of dance depicted on film.
Anthony 'Scooter' Teague
- 'West Side Story' dancer
- (as Scooter Teague)
Harvey Evans
- 'West Side Story' dancer
- (as Harvey Hohnecker)
Erik Bruhn
- Archival footage from 'Hans Christian Andersen'
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaThis marked the premiere screening of Ray Bolger's deleted dance routine from The Wizard of Oz (1939), an occasion that later inspired the making of That's Entertainment! III (1994), which was comprised of many scenes that had been deleted from their respective release prints.
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Title Card: This film is dedicated to all the dancers... especially those who devoted their lives to the development of their art long before there was a motion picture camera.
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Hollywood talent in the form of dance
Those who love dance of any kind and classic film will be thrilled with That's Dancing! Some segments are too short and some of the narration I agree is obtrusive(especially for the 42nd Street number)- there could have been much less of the talking over scenes- and not always necessary(the opinion on break-dancing, went on for a little too long and it did ramble a bit). The hosting is mixed, Gene Kelly is very engaging and informative and while he's not always easy to understand Mikhail Baryshnikov also says things of good value but didn't get a huge amount out of Liza Minelli. That's Dancing! is still splendid stuff though, it's skilfully filmed and the editing of the footage is done slickly and not awkwardly. The music of course is outstanding and of good variety, good that it showed more than one style or genre rather than just one without skimming the surface, and the dancing even better, especially in the Busby Berkeley, Nicholas Brothers, Flashdance, West Side Story and Fred and Ginger numbers. The scenes featured feature some deserved classics like Pick Yourself Up, Night and Day, Forty-Second Street(pretty much anything with Busby Berkeley's involvement in fact), Broadway Rhythm and If Only I Had a Brain/We're Off to See the Wizard(in an extended scene cut from the film), as well as the ballet sequence from The Red Shoes and the scene from Yankee Doodle Dandy. And of all the stars featured the ones that stood out were Fred and Ginger(obviously, it would be a crime really to miss them out), Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, Shirley Temple and Bojangles Robinson, Eleanor Powell, Ann Miller and the Nicholas Brothers tap-dance(the Wizard of Oz extended cut scene was charming though if too long, you can understand why it was cut). In conclusion, a very good documentary with the best stuff splendid. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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- Gross US & Canada
- $4,210,938
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,506,802
- Jan 20, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $4,210,938
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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