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