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