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