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