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.
Directed by
Jack Haley Jr.
Michael Jackson
Shirley MacLaine
Jennifer Beals
Ginger Rogers
Liza Minnelli
Self - Host
Gene Kelly
Self - Host
James Cagney
From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (archive footage)
Judy Garland
Fred Astaire
Self (archive footage)
Buddy Ebsen
From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Ray Bolger
Self - Host
Ann Miller
Debbie Reynolds
Shirley Temple
Arlene Dahl
From 'Three Little Words' (archive footage)
Cyd Charisse
Danny Kaye
From 'White Christmas' (archive footage)
Dick Powell
Gwen Verdon
Lola (archive footage)
Phil Silvers
From 'Cover Girl' (archive footage)
Tab Hunter
From 'Damn Yankees' (archive footage)
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self - Host
Donald O'Connor
Howard Keel
From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Taina Elg
From 'Les Girls' (archive footage)
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self - Host
Harve Presnell
From 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' (archive footage)
Vera-Ellen
Russ Tamblyn
Una Merkel
From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Esther Williams
From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
Paula Kelly
From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)
Betty Garrett
Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)
Kathryn Grayson
From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Ron Randell
From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Lyle Talbot
Self
Red Skelton
From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
George Murphy
From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Jane Powell
Gloria DeHaven
From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Chita Rivera
From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)
Ruby Keeler
From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
George Chakiris
Bernardo
Juliet Prowse
From 'Can-Can' (archive footage)
Dan Dailey
Eleanor Powell
Frances Langford
From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Rudolf Nureyev
Fayard Nicholas
From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)
Harold Nicholas
From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)
Robert Helpmann
From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)
Lilyan Tashman
From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
Bobby Van
From 'Small Town Girl' and 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Tamara Toumanova
From 'Tonight We Sing' (archive footage)
Wini Shaw
From 'Gold Diggers of 1935' (archive footage)
Reiko Sato
From 'Kismet' (archive footage)
Vera Zorina
From 'On Your Toes' (archive footage)
Harvey Evans
'West Side Story' dancer
Moira Shearer
From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)
Zizi Jeanmaire
From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)
Scooter Teague
Patsy Ruth Miller
From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
Tucker Smith
'West Side Story' dancer
Barbara Hancock
From 'Finian's Rainbow' (archive footage)
Francesca Bellini
'West Side Story' dancer
Bill Robinson
Carol Haney
Bert Michaels
'West Side Story' dancer
Erik Bruhn
From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)
Marine Jahan
From 'Flashdance' (archive footage)
Anna Pavlova
Leroy Daniels
From 'The Band Wagon' (archive footage)
Yuriko
From 'The King and I' (archive footage)
Loïe Fuller
Eliot Feld
'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)
Susan Oakes
'West Side Story' dancer
Lauren Peterson
Ballet student with Gene Kelly
Gina Trikonis
'West Side Story' dancer

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