Documentary Music
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins 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 music videos from the 80s.
Directed by
Jack Haley Jr.
John Travolta
Self (archive footage)
Shirley MacLaine
Michael Jackson
Jennifer Beals
Debbie Reynolds
Vivien Leigh
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart
Self (archive footage)
Vera-Ellen
Frank Sinatra
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Temple
Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
Mickey Rooney
Self (archive footage)
Russ Tamblyn
Judy Garland
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Lucille Ball
Self (archive footage)
Gene Kelly
Self - Host
Ann Miller
Buddy Ebsen
From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Barbara Hancock
From 'Finian's Rainbow' (archive footage)
Ginger Rogers
Dick Powell
Tab Hunter
From 'Damn Yankees' (archive footage)
Danny Kaye
From 'White Christmas' (archive footage)
Dan Dailey
Fred Astaire
Self (archive footage)
Jack Haley
Self (archive footage)
Liza Minnelli
Self - Host
Harve Presnell
From 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' (archive footage)
Ray Bolger
Self - Host
Moira Shearer
From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)
Donald O'Connor
Chita Rivera
From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)
Betty Garrett
Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)
Lyle Talbot
Self
Sammy Davis Jr.
Self - Host
Eleanor Powell
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Self - Host
Arlene Dahl
From 'Three Little Words' (archive footage)
James Cagney
From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (archive footage)
Wini Shaw
From 'Gold Diggers of 1935' (archive footage)
Esther Williams
From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
Cyd Charisse
Una Merkel
From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Gwen Verdon
Lola (archive footage)
Frances Langford
From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
George Chakiris
Bernardo
Robert Helpmann
From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)
Gloria DeHaven
From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Erik Bruhn
From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)
Paula Kelly
From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)
Kathryn Grayson
From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Howard Keel
From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Phil Silvers
From 'Cover Girl' (archive footage)
Red Skelton
From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
Jane Powell
George Murphy
From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Vera Zorina
From 'On Your Toes' (archive footage)
Bill Robinson
Juliet Prowse
From 'Can-Can' (archive footage)
Patsy Ruth Miller
From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
Rudolf Nureyev
Ruby Keeler
From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
Ron Randell
From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Robert Banas
'West Side Story ' dancer
Marine Jahan
From 'Flashdance' (archive footage)
Reiko Sato
From 'Kismet' (archive footage)
Harold Nicholas
From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)
Francesca Bellini
'West Side Story' dancer
Taina Elg
From 'Les Girls' (archive footage)
Tucker Smith
'West Side Story' dancer
Bobby Van
From 'Small Town Girl' and 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Zizi Jeanmaire
From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)
Leroy Daniels
From 'The Band Wagon' (archive footage)
Harvey Evans
'West Side Story' dancer
Tamara Toumanova
From 'Tonight We Sing' (archive footage)
Carol Haney
Fayard Nicholas
From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)
Loïe Fuller
Lilyan Tashman
From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
Scooter Teague
Bert Michaels
'West Side Story' dancer
Anna Pavlova
Eliot Feld
'West Side Story' dancer
Yuriko
From 'The King and I' (archive footage)
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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