That's Dancing! (1985) on Netflix
G19851h 45mDocumentaryMusical
Five hosts guide a tour of dance on film, from the earliest movie cameras through the musicals to break dance and music videos. The clips reach past one studio.
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Plot summary
A compilation assembled from film archives, it surveys how dance has been recorded on screen. The survey runs from the years just after the movie camera was invented, through the Hollywood musicals of the late 1920s to the 1960s, and into break dance and the music videos of the 1980s. Five hosts introduce the selections, which go beyond one studio's own pictures to material made elsewhere. Among the excerpts is a dance routine from The Wizard of Oz that was shortened in the released picture and is shown here complete for the first time. An original song plays over the closing credits, and the film carries a dedication to dancers, above all those who worked before cameras could record them.
Cast
- Tommy Abbottas Himself (clip from "West Side Story") (archive footage)
- David Beanas Himself (clip from "West Side Story") (archive footage)
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- Carole D'Andreaas Herself (clip from "West Side Story") (archive footage)
- Charles Laskeyas Himself (archive footage)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about That's Dancing! (1985)
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- The 1985 film marked the first theatrical release of Ray Bolger's complete "If I Only Had a Brain" dance routine, which had been shortened in The Wizard of Oz.
- Ray Bolger, who hosted alongside Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr. and Mikhail Baryshnikov, made his last film appearance here before his death in 1987.
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