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