Here’s a look at actor, dancer & singer Gene Kelly’s house in Southern California, as it looked back in 1950, when he lived there with this wife and daughter.
Dancer Isadora Duncan was killed when her shawl was caught in the rear wheel of an automobile. Unaware, the chauffeur of the car started moving forward.
Footloose stars Kevin Bacon as a dynamic Chicago teen transplanted to a morally numb heartland town, where the local ministerhas banned rock dancing.
Gene Kelly’s crowning achievement – and often considered the most popular and admired musical of all time – was 1952′s Singin’ in the Rain. Take a look back here!
Here’s a look back at the history of the multi-talented entertainer Gene Kelly, the award-winning star of the ’40s, ’50s & ’60s.
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.
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.
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.
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 ads showing child star Shirley Temple as a fashionable Hollywood screen siren, were a humorous way to introduce the 6-year-old girl’s 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.
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 the problem of growing up The little girl who led the movie-star popularity list during the first three
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
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
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
130 vintage ’50s house plans used to build millions of mid-century homes we still live in today 
47 dangerous old playgrounds that our great-grandparents somehow survived 
Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s 
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