The first film to exploit the latest disco craze, it stared a hot TV personality, John Travolta, and features a soundtrack overcrowded with highly pluggable Bee Gees songs.
Footloose stars Kevin Bacon as a dynamic Chicago youngster transplanted to a morally numb heartland town, where local minister John Lithgow has banned rock dancing.
See Fred Astaire in a clip from 1946’s ‘Blue Skies,’ performing ‘Puttin’ On The Ritz’ – a song associated with him like no other – and find out more about the film itself.
Disco dancing was characterized by a casual, controlled, rhythmic movement of the whole body, with a pulsing vertical motion through the knees. Try some of the top moves!
Disney’s magical Mary Poppins arrived in 1964. See classic movie clips, hear some of the songs, plus find out more about the film & its stars!
There’s a lot of magic and humor practiced in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Written and directed by John Hughes, this energetic and offbeat comedy captures the best feelings about being young.
Dancer Isadora Duncan was killed when her shawl was caught in the rear wheel of an automobile. Unaware, the chauffeur of the car which was being demonstrated to Miss Duncan started moving forward.
Adrian Lyne’s ‘Flashdance’ widens the eyes. Equal pans of shamelessness, brainlessness, and perverse energy have been scrambled into a movie that’s laughable, preposterous and truly awful.
These tongue-in-cheek ads, presenting child star Shirley Temple as a fashionable Hollywood screen siren with lots of cash, were a humorous way to introduce the 6-year-old girl’s new film, “Baby Take a Bow.”
Not too long ago, Joan Crawford was merely a dancing girl with ornamental legs. Recent pictures prove that she is acquiring a vivid and distinctive quality in her acting.
“A bridge across the continent.” – Ginger Rogers, RKO star Miss Rogers says: “On TWA, you travel with the sort of people you enjoy meeting.
Celebrity baby photos at David Niven Jr’s restaurant include those of Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron, little, big-eyed, Natalie Wood, and debonair Edwardian Cary Grant.
Screen legends Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance their way into your heart in one of the most timeless holiday classics of all time, Holiday Inn.
20 giant wall display decorations in full color for your home Complete set of wide-eyed dancers and decorations magically converts walls into gaily-colored room setting
Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved “Sweet Charity” was a 1969 movie, starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis
Ten years of Temple Shirley has faced problem of growing up The little girl who led the movie-star popularity list during the first three of
The Debbie Reynolds scrapbook The unsinkable star shares her very personal memories of her broken marriages, her two children and her career Some might call
Gene Kelly by Cleveland Amory “I myself have always equated dancing with sports. YA Tittle throwing a forward pass is a dancer. And one of
Justin Timberlake’s Tribute To Gene Kelly Hugh Jackman’s Tribute To Gene Kelly Glee’s Harry Shum, Jr’s Tribute To Gene Kelly
His crowning achievement — and often considered the most popular and admired musical of all time — was 1952′s Singin’ in the Rain.
The Hardest Working Man in Show Business The Godfather of Soul. Mr Dynamite. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business. Whatever you called him, James
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