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