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