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