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Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #BroadwayMelodyof1936
Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor star in this musical
story of a stage producer, the gossip columnist with whom he's feuding and the producer's childhood sweetheart, who's determined to land a starring spot in his new show. Producer Bob Gordon (Taylor) is so preoccupied with columnist Bert Keeler (Benny) that he fails to notice Irene Foster's talent (Powell) when she auditions for him. Determined to stop at nothing in her quest for stardom.
Directed By Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke
Starring Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
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@markbeck8384 Ай бұрын

I understand the magic of the Past when I see something like this.

@jamesharasch9425 Жыл бұрын

I wish we had more of this happy talent today. The music, style, everything was so charming and nostalgic.

@jourwalis-8875 4 ай бұрын

Nothing new from today can never be "nostalgic"!

@WondrousEarth 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! The great Eleanor Powell, turning spinning the consummate dancer, just wonderful!

@eleanorelizabethcarter4366 Ай бұрын

Best female dancer ever!!!

@anncohen6674 5 жыл бұрын

"Make it big, make it right, and give it class!"-Louis B. Mayer the M-G-M motto.

@jettrink7510 3 жыл бұрын

The finest entertainer of the twententh century.

@michaeldelia8341 3 ай бұрын

It's scary how good she was!

@hughmcinally907 4 жыл бұрын

Crazy talented, and her soul just shines through in every performance you see.

@jourwalis-8875 4 ай бұрын

Pure magic!

@nataliewilliams9741 2 жыл бұрын

That was some Fancy Footwork! Wow

@markfisher2121 4 жыл бұрын

Charm and dance perfection has a name: Eleanor Powell 💐 ! Mark

@gordonkemp1620 3 жыл бұрын

Ogh sweet Ellie. What a swell dish & the best hoofer on the planet.

@onejreaper2420 3 жыл бұрын

Just notice the routine is a big eye. That dance blew my mind. Haha first day I've heard of this woman and I was like....ok that was good. I was actually looking for something else haha and i couldn't stop watching her.

@arthurgearheard4701 2 жыл бұрын

She didn't get the recognition she deserved until after her death!

@LLewis-vu9qf 3 жыл бұрын

This woman had phenomenal balance and stamina. Just absolutely fantastic! She never seems to place a foot wrong or has to adjust to rebalance herself. Brava Eleanor Powell. 👏👏😁

@kennethgoin628 2 жыл бұрын

If you look up any interviews with her, she talks about the hours she put into these performances. There's a reason she could do her takes so perfectly!

@esmeephillips5888 Жыл бұрын

@@kennethgoin628 But the main reason is that Eleanor choreographed all her routines. She knew what her brain could imagine and make her body do. MGM to its eternal credit accepted this and gave her more freedom than any other dancer has enjoyed, plus the unrivaled resources of Hollywood's biggest studio. And she repaid them with nine profitable films in seven years.

@tfbotm 7 ай бұрын

The University of Minnesota Dance Team’s D1 Jazz Routine at the 2024 UDA Nationals brought this jazz dance history fan HERE! Anyone mesmerized by that SHOULD watch this video! Crazy how Lola (Filipino word for grandmother) Powell pulled off those a la seconde turns in HEELED TAP OXFORDS! She was WAY ahead of her time!

@maddi-son9527 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I’ve been looking for a better quality version of this number. Thank you 🙌

@JungleYT Жыл бұрын

*Just discovered this film and Ms. Powell other day thru an Insta posting... Looked like film trickery or something, she twirled so FAST! Amazing talent. Incredibly gifted. So, she was married to actor Glenn Ford? Seven years his senior... My Mom was born in 1936... So, that was a very LONG time ago! So much history between then and now... Hollywood now just a shadow of itself today*

@Hudpix16 3 жыл бұрын

Robert Taylor 😍

@BrianMorisky 2 жыл бұрын

Such a classic, I watch this film a couple times a year. Nick Long Jr. is a highlight of this film, unfortunately his career limited by prejudices of the day.

@esmeephillips5888 Жыл бұрын

What prejudices precisely?

@faustinorello4814 3 жыл бұрын

Maravillosa, que gran bailarina

@reloda 3 жыл бұрын

That's the fastest spinning I've seen!

@liberte5847 4 жыл бұрын

The best ever, merci beaucoup for sharing as usual! From Paris France

@marydougans8211 3 жыл бұрын

Love the pianos

@Quimlh Жыл бұрын

Eleanor Powell, Reina del Claqué.

@jeffnegron8845 2 жыл бұрын

Scary good

@over50dancer 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for this wonderful scene! Nowadays I'm re-discovering countless great talents thanks toy YT.

@2020Bookworm 3 жыл бұрын

It was shown on TCM and I recorded it. I'll watch it later tonight. It's too bad these movies weren't colorized.

@esmeephillips5888 3 жыл бұрын

I doubt the speed of her final spins has ever been matched.

@Reclining_Spuds 3 жыл бұрын

maybe on ice? She's brilliant.

@leonie7342 3 жыл бұрын

Except, maybe by herself. Check out the final spin sequence in the "Hula Tap"...single, double, single, etc.; those double spins are fast. I'm guessing about 4/10ths of a second for one revolution in the above clip, and those doubles seem even faster.

@esmeephillips5888 3 жыл бұрын

@@leonie7342 Yes, imagine seeing the 30-second last shot of the Hula Tap for the first time on a 40 foot screen. One of her most awesome moments- with that rapturous smile at the finish, as if she is thanking God for her accomplishment. I figure Ellie was specially fond of the sequence, since she put a joke about the Hula into her dance with Buttons and did a quick reprise at the end of Tommy Dorsey's 'Hawaiian War Chant'.

@Reclining_Spuds 3 жыл бұрын

@@esmeephillips5888 In addition to that smile at the end she wasn't even out of breath.

@leonie7342 3 жыл бұрын

;@@esmeephillips5888 She does a bit of hula in the home movies Peter Ford included in his documentary, "A Little Prince"'. A factoid I ran across stated she bought the rights to an Andy Iona song entitled, "I'm Grateful to You", (or, indebted to you), with the thought of using it as a theme song. Esmee, do you know if she ever went to Hawaii?

@emmamurphy530 2 жыл бұрын

0:31-2:18 tap dance break

@user-wf1st5qp5o 5 жыл бұрын

1936,so 82years ago.

@songsmith31a 9 ай бұрын

Warner Bros. - home of gals, galleons and gangsters...all in the best possible style.

@vickilindberg6336 2 жыл бұрын

I think she's better than Astaire in that she had to do so many huge production numbers where so much more could go wrong. She still did all the tricks, had signature moves & had to get past some ugly costumes.

@pollutionfreeplanet Жыл бұрын

Holy smokes!

@alexkije 10 ай бұрын

Very Nice!

@nathanielhernandez8843 5 жыл бұрын

Wait did “Singin’ in the Rain” NOT originate this piece? WHAT?!?

@jackanthony976 5 жыл бұрын

Many of the songs from Singin in the Rain were recycled from earlier MGM musicals including this one.

@esmeephillips5888 4 жыл бұрын

'The Broadway Melody' was first filmed in the 1929 vintage talkie of the same name, performed by a splendid old-school vaudevillian named Charles King... accompanied by a high-kicking chorus line: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hd6HiatjnauVe40.html First sound film to win the Best Ptcture Oscar.

@vintagesubliminals3398 4 жыл бұрын

It didn’t even originate the song singing in the rain

@judekelly8324 3 жыл бұрын

It's natural. Singin In The Rain is a homage and a film about the silent era and early talkies, Especially the early musicals (musical craze wave) like the Broadway melody 1929 and The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and many many others.

@directorclarkmonroe 3 жыл бұрын

Judy performed it too before singing in the rain 1943

@esmeephillips5888 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Robert Montgomery was slated to be the romantic male lead, but (always picky) he feared that his performance would get overlooked in this mosh pit of up-and-coming talent. Mayer decided he could save on the budget by using another Robert, who was being groomed as a jeune premier and was paid $40 a week. Eleanor was getting 30 times as much.

@darinsingleton3553 Жыл бұрын

Plastering the next-video thumbnails over the end of her dance was really unfortunate, and incredibly disrespectful to Powell's talent & hard work. Pretty shameful.

@TheTeacher1020 Жыл бұрын

The incomparable Eleanor Powell, often copied, never equaled. Even Astaire was overshadowed.

@ribamarmodestodasilva3109 3 жыл бұрын

DESLUMBRANTE.

@rmcfete Ай бұрын

Who’s the dolt who has the ads come up and take out half the screen when Elinor Powell is dancing?? Not smart at all

@jamessmithe5490 3 жыл бұрын

This is why Ruby Keeler didn't last

@esmeephillips5888 3 жыл бұрын

As early as 1936, Ruby was telling an interviewer that it was absurd to talk about her and Powell in the same sentence as dancers. Keeler continued to talk herself down for 40 years. Yet Ruby's star power has not dimmed. She had a sharp edge to her sweetness that meant she never became saccharine. Her cuteness is unforced- audiences rooted for her. And she put the effort in; by the time she quit she was much lighter on her feet. Her comeback in 'No, No, Nanette' (a chance Eleanor refused) was a happy coda.

@pebrogan 2 жыл бұрын

@@esmeephillips5888 Ellie scored a mammoth success in the early 60's with her widely heralded nightclub act and multiple television appearances. However, by about 1965, she chose to walk away. I know she could have scored in "Nanette" or headed one of the touring companies had she chosen, but I think, on a personal level, she made the choice that suited her. I interviewed Ruby when "Nanette" tried out in Boston prior to heading to New York, and she was charming, gracious and self-deprecating. I assured her that the ovation she'd received the night before from the audience I was a part of, was about more than nostalgia. She kissed me on the cheek and thanked me.

@esmeephillips5888 2 жыл бұрын

@@pebrogan Agreed about EP. In her absence, Ruby's comeback was a happy outcome. She may have been eclipsed technically and artistically by the dance stars who followed in Hollywood, but she blazed a trail for them. And she proved her mettle by returning after so long an absence- showing there was life after Jolson. The sad thing about the 'Nanette' revival was how Keeler's old dance master, Berkeley, was paid for his billing but allowed little input.