The dance starts at 01:12 Before the dance she has sung with Danny Kaye "Two of a kind". The video is here: • Gwen Verdon, Danny Kay...
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@amyralls62185 ай бұрын
Truly timless and absolutely beautiful! In 1963, I was 2 years old. It is now 2024, and I am 62 years old. It is still extraordinary!!
@wildfireintexas4 ай бұрын
Right there with you girlfriend.
@lynnelovesroses44853 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness for KZfaq so I can see gems like this for the first time....just fabulous.
@amyralls62185 ай бұрын
I agree 100%!!
@AussieKim426 ай бұрын
Not bad for a woman who had ricketts as a tiny child & spent her early years in calipers. ❤️ Dance classes were/are so important. 💙
@anniejuan18175 ай бұрын
I agree. I think swimming lessons are a top priority, because that can save a child's life. But dance classes are a close second. Dance is a life skill!
@songindarkness5 ай бұрын
That’s amazing!
@silky043910 ай бұрын
Lord, I remember this! My baby brother was just born and I was 5 years old! Holy Cow!
@lynn69jackson23 күн бұрын
My big brother would have been around 2 months old when this was made.
@g2bk3 жыл бұрын
Gwen Verdon was among the best and too often not mentioned. Plus she endured marriage to Bob Fosse. One of my favorite MASH episodes is the one with her.. Sherm.
@bluemountainmornings25445 ай бұрын
I came here to say that!
@kmm24423 ай бұрын
Endured? Was he hard to live with?
@sassymess71113 ай бұрын
Never seen the MASH episode but for some reason I was never a big fan. She was and will always be amazing. I LOVED her on the episode of FAME dancing with Debbie Allen!
@sassymess71113 ай бұрын
@@kmm2442 Yes. Professionally he was an absolute perfectionist. Privately he was a womanizer. Anne Reinking ( another talented dancer IMO) was his longtime mistress and there were others besides her. Basically watch ALL THAT JAZZ. Roy Scheider's character is based off of Bob Fosse down to the ginger haired wife who was a former dancer and Anne Reinking herself starring as the mistress.
@kmm24423 ай бұрын
Thank you so much. Everything I wanted to know.
@donnariley28313 жыл бұрын
I loved Danny Kaye and his TV show when I was a kid. Such wholesome entertainment. I miss it.
@melissaferguson58923 жыл бұрын
How could anyone not like Danny Kaye. Look at that face!
@gullwingstorm8573 жыл бұрын
And now little Nicole is nearly sixty. Wow.
@abbatrouble3 жыл бұрын
Her ballet training really shows!
@pam06263 жыл бұрын
These clip is priceless. Truly the Golden Age of television.
@libertygiveme19873 жыл бұрын
That was quite LOVELY Gwen. I'm sure your daughter appreciated it when she got older.
@juliedepaolo99713 жыл бұрын
Wish they would still produce shows like this.
@figmo3973 жыл бұрын
She's in such good form, it's hard to believe that she'd just popped out a baby six months earlier.
@Elizabeth-rq1vi3 жыл бұрын
She’s a dancer who didn’t stop dancing or moving. She probably only gained a little over the baby, amniotic fluid & placenta.
@Bubblesrv816 ай бұрын
How is it hard to believe. The lady was basically walking and moving her hands.
@irmar4 ай бұрын
@@Bubblesrv81 There was running and jumping too. And it needed rehearsals, doing the same routine many times, which needs stamina.
@nonosays5 ай бұрын
The artistry of Gwen Verdon is awe-inspiring.
@marytheresejacksonlutz25333 жыл бұрын
I can hear my mother singing these nursery rhymes to me. Mom loved this type of dance, music and choreography. Miss Verdon is marvelous
@johntucker70636 ай бұрын
Nicole Fosse grew up to be an actress and a dancer.
@cynthiad44433 жыл бұрын
Nobody moves like Verdon💙
@libertygiveme19873 жыл бұрын
Cynthia, with the exception of Donald O'Conner, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, etc,etc....
@keishamorris55713 жыл бұрын
@@libertygiveme1987 How about the Nicolas Brothers???
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
None of the male dancers here commented on had Gwen's sylphine feminine body, early ballet training, nor exquisite grace. Every dancer is a unique terpsichorean instrument.
@bonnizajac89163 жыл бұрын
She was beyond talented and a wonderful person 💕
@Bubblesrv816 ай бұрын
What?
@rejoyce3184 жыл бұрын
I came here after Fosse/Verdon. Thanks for posting. Clever movement canon during "3 Blind Mice."
@annic79953 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this beautiful video! Nighty night everybody! 🥱😴
@cherylrichards89515 ай бұрын
I hope Nicole has been able to share this with her children. What a family treasure.
@mottawa16 ай бұрын
So talented and charming. When I was young in the ‘60’s I saw her in Sweet Charity in NYC.
@Jettypilelegs5 ай бұрын
So jealous!
@mottawa15 ай бұрын
So playful and talented.
@maryrosekent82233 ай бұрын
YOWZA!!!
@Texaslawhorn3 ай бұрын
That must have been amazing!
@antonmarino65683 жыл бұрын
Saw her in Sweet.Charity. fantastic
@rutheliz753 жыл бұрын
Beautiful choreography ! Thanks for posting.
@sheilapasquini62323 жыл бұрын
What a marvelous talent she was. I hope she knew how much we will loved her and appreciated her. RIP, Gwen.
@LauraS15 ай бұрын
She did this 6 months post-birth. That's amazing by any standards, you know.
@inketc.presents5584 Жыл бұрын
I love her work. It's no wonder Bob Fosse worked with her.
@elizabethmurphy93843 жыл бұрын
Imagine dancers this great with a great choreographer on staff week after week to creat dances this good.... every week.
@desireea.thomas24196 ай бұрын
How Beautiful 🥰🥰🥰 What a Blessed little girl to whom was going to receive this video.
@elizabethclaiborne64613 жыл бұрын
She did that barefoot in tights on a glossy surface. I used to fence, in shoes, on a floor like that, a basketball court. It took years not to slip around. She’s way more amazing than you think.
@googlyeyedcat3 жыл бұрын
She has shoes on you can't tell very much because they match her tights. They kind of look like what male ballet dancers would have on.
@marygoodson49203 жыл бұрын
She has ballet slippers on.
@nicolajaynehodson92233 жыл бұрын
looks like she's got black canvas ballet flats on
@elizabethclaiborne64615 ай бұрын
@@googlyeyedcatAm familiar. Effectively barefoot. No traction.
@Gualtinho3 жыл бұрын
Imagine dancing like that six months after giving birth!
@RedRooster1233 жыл бұрын
She was already a dancer, it wasn't hard. Runners keep running when pregnant and get back quickly as well.
@originalredneckgirl3 жыл бұрын
They didn't do heart surgery or anything.. she just had a baby.. women are amazing like that ,
@abigailwrigley64623 жыл бұрын
@@originalredneckgirl the last Relaxin would be leaving her body after six months so this dance should be done with extreme care. For an elite athlete this is acceptable, for an average, healthy, fit woman, not yet. There is a huge amount of background knowledge and experience necessary to make this possible, never mind safe. These days hernias, piles, prolapses of more than just discs are much less common, because we know what all the processes are.
@RedRooster1233 жыл бұрын
@@originalredneckgirl right?!
@carolinemodenbach3 жыл бұрын
6 months is a very long time to heal after birth. Most women jump right back into their normal duties in very little time.
@cherylmcnutt99053 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, graceful, enchanting!
@teijaflink2226 Жыл бұрын
Quite amazing to be the daughter of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse.
@jmb59245 ай бұрын
Geesh…six months postpartum and she looks like that! Amazing dancer.
@AvalonMorley3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the chance to see more artistry from this marvelous woman. They really had some great stuff on TV back then. (There's some good stuff now too, but different.)
@ggrother5393 жыл бұрын
gorgeous dancing!- the choreography feels fresh. Another one not to miss is ' What Lola wants '. funniest thing! genius. Thanks for this great post.
@Sincere82503 жыл бұрын
Loved Gwen Verdon!
@patriciamartinez58363 жыл бұрын
Love her. A great talent
@amystephenson47193 жыл бұрын
What a lovely gift to Nicole.
@rrreverb Жыл бұрын
I love Danny Kaye so much.
@Twinzma5 ай бұрын
Nicole was in the movie A Chorus Line. Bob Fosse is her dad 🥹 What a legendary family!
@susie23662 жыл бұрын
What a sweet gift to children everywhere.
@EyeLean52803 жыл бұрын
Aw this is sweet!
@CarrienotScary4 жыл бұрын
This is sweet.
@leeboriack80543 жыл бұрын
Six months after having a baby, wow!
@meglocklear3 жыл бұрын
So classy!
@augustgirl3 жыл бұрын
Oh my God!!! That was phenomenal. Damn. And just precious af.
@wildflowerwind6941 Жыл бұрын
Dancing and music was magical.
@anaflaviapincernopouza92183 ай бұрын
Wonderful !
@mycatisabastard23613 жыл бұрын
I adore Gwen Verdon
@heidifluteatl3 ай бұрын
That was really wonderful!!!!!
@kathleengillespie59834 ай бұрын
What a talent this woman!
@beverlybarnes31223 жыл бұрын
Very ethereal Perfect
@RIXRADvidz3 жыл бұрын
no wonder my mom had a crush on her. such grace and elegance
@JamesBrown-ij1px3 ай бұрын
Magic.
@smokechub6 ай бұрын
SMOOTH! 🤗
@lisastuart70933 жыл бұрын
Classic!
@erixxxblue26984 ай бұрын
that is art
@hanssolos36993 жыл бұрын
the origin of twerking cos she woke up like this 🤣🤣🤣
@slothsluethe1773 жыл бұрын
Wow!!
@mizkel46043 жыл бұрын
This is so precious!!!!! ❤❤❤
@m.theresacarozza81733 жыл бұрын
Good choreography
@user-mb8uz7fi8g5 ай бұрын
SHOW OFF!!! YEAH!!! YOU GO MAMA!
@AuntyM664 жыл бұрын
Wow.
@phileasfoxx2006 Жыл бұрын
Спасибо!! Какая пластика...!!
@MarkMastrocinque4 жыл бұрын
Not bad for a kid that had rickets.
@cherylmcnutt99053 жыл бұрын
Really?
@MarkMastrocinque3 жыл бұрын
@@cherylmcnutt9905 Yes. As a child Gwen Verdon suffered from rickets.
@cherylmcnutt99053 жыл бұрын
@@MarkMastrocinque Oh! Poor thing! She certainly overcame that adversity!
@fagerokun41526 ай бұрын
Muito bom!
@glomacari33069 ай бұрын
The Best x
@honeyjbc15 ай бұрын
Fabulos
@esmeephillips58883 жыл бұрын
In its youth TV knew it could never compete with the cast-of-thousands spectacle, fancy settings and costumes of Broadway or Hollywood, and why try on small b&w screens? Economics and aesthetics both conduced to the unadorned chiaroscuro of studio floors such as this. It was the right environment in which to mainstream modern dance as interpreted by Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, as well as the world-music fusions of Jack Cole. Back to basics: focus on the figures, not their trappings. The big Middle American audience ate up the likes of Fonteyn and Nureyev on Sullivan. Why not introduce them to post-classical movement? And so, courtesy of Fosse and Verdon, another phase in the eternal melding of the avant garde and sssshowtime! was achieved, to their mutual benefit. Some folks wanted high and low culture to keep their distance, and today many would like the artistic inheritances of different races to dwell under separate bell jars. But naughty old traditions keep escaping and mating. Promiscuity breeds novelty.
@user-qf5uy8xj3w5 ай бұрын
Love this... just want to mention Danny Kaye's family was from Ukraine. I don't know where Gwen's family is from but she was so talented also!
@TheBOG34 ай бұрын
Danny Kaye pronounces Gwen’s daughter, Nicole(‘s), name as “Neecole.” I’ve never heard anyone pronounce the name Nicole that way.
@ROBYNMARKOW3 жыл бұрын
Fosse had to have choregraphed this ; it has signature moves .. 👌
@cherylmcnutt99053 жыл бұрын
She collaborated with the shows choreographer. She could have put those moves in.
@elizabethmurphy93842 жыл бұрын
Didn’t Tony Charmoli work as Assistant to Fosse?
@kellyalves7564 ай бұрын
@@elizabethmurphy9384Gwen was a talented choreographer in her own right- and handed the credit off to Fosse a lot of the time. I guarantee you nobody’s shortchanging Fosse by crediting the other two.
@paulashe615 ай бұрын
Imagine being a professional dancer.
@leeanneyoungman8028 Жыл бұрын
I’m guessing her daughter has seen by now.. 😁✨
@suzannerossiter16824 жыл бұрын
Nice post
@johnpjones1829 ай бұрын
Gwen had gams!
@cvet_nastroeniya3 жыл бұрын
Сейчас даже как-то смешно на это смотреть))) ещё так талия неестественно утянута...
@oliviastar3812Ай бұрын
Is her little girl around now and did she ever comment on this performance done especially for her?
@lynnmiller39374 жыл бұрын
Go to 1:13
@brianmcmillan74263 жыл бұрын
childhood crush since Damn Yankees
@wookinooki90236 ай бұрын
music arranged by Aaron Copland?
@mikenoble70053 жыл бұрын
Bob Fosse choreography?
@haroldgodwinson59813 жыл бұрын
A different time
@thebiscuitrose3 жыл бұрын
11 million dollars??
@henrimatisse74813 ай бұрын
soo Gwen just gave birth?!
@bbibidee82333 жыл бұрын
01:45
@bbibidee82333 жыл бұрын
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@bbibidee82333 жыл бұрын
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@bbibidee82333 жыл бұрын
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@AdeleRafael-uc8ve4 ай бұрын
Someone, ANYONE.... please HURRY and tell BEYONCE to WATCH this VIDEO....will TOTALLY go GREAT with her "country" (as real as her blonde hair) "music".....🤥🤥🤥....🤠
@marktombazian64903 жыл бұрын
I always wonder who the miserable, disenchanted people are who don't like this? ...and everything else that is about joy, happiness and love....who are they in their miserable lives of nothingness? Frankly, who cares?
@bobtaylor1703 жыл бұрын
I have a cousin like that. 66. Humorless. Lifeless. Vicious.
@bobtaylor1703 жыл бұрын
Mark, we have to keep trying to introduce people to the great things.
@marktombazian64903 жыл бұрын
Remember, we all become more or less of who we are. More? then happier, fulfilled, joyous, etc etc...Less? Sadder, angry, unfulfilled, etc etc. We become the way we are by choice. Regardless of what takes place, we choose how we will react, respond, respect, process and conclude and then carry-on. Our life is based on our choices. Choose the life you want. Live the results.
@critchley9994 ай бұрын
Bizarre .. lol.
@andycahill9005 ай бұрын
Verdon is the perfect Fosse dancer. The dancers with her are very good but not Fosse-trained.
@janeflip14 ай бұрын
All she does is shake her hips and run in place!
@paules34374 ай бұрын
Ya know.. watching these three figures in black against a spare background reminds of Beyonce and All the Single Ladies. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atNheKl-1Liqpo0.html
@Lola-Blue5 ай бұрын
Wait....what? No twerking!?!?
@PatriciaCrabtree-wm8xd5 ай бұрын
Bending over and looking through the legs at the camera isn't so nice dancewise.
@Agent.995 ай бұрын
What is wrong with her hips? Her waist is cinched in so weirdly just above giving a square shape to her hips. 3:21 Looks extremely uncomfortable
@debbieking51713 жыл бұрын
I am surprised she was able to dance like that, due to the fact she was a smoker.
@laurelbehles70196 ай бұрын
Everyone (almost) back then smoked!
@lindacarruthers34233 жыл бұрын
He has a huge nose . It looks as if we’re watching a clip from Pinocchio.
@maryshaffer84743 жыл бұрын
People even the movie stars used to be normal looking.
@lindacarruthers34233 жыл бұрын
@@maryshaffer8474 how true . That’s why I enjoy British films . All the good bad and ugly of them , normal . In fact often I can’t tell the difference between some actors in American films because certain types seen to be preferred by the casting person , so duplicate people appear in the same film . I shouldn’t have mentioned the nose , but it did give me a shock because somehow I didn’t know he had such a prominent one .
@rabidsamfan3 жыл бұрын
@@lindacarruthers3423 Those old tv cameras were notorious for distorting the image slightly. If you have ever heard someone say that the camera adds ten pounds, that is the camera being talked about.
@NewYorker-vo4lc5 ай бұрын
Gwen Verdon was a woman of talent. However, she was unkind and known for her racism. A dear Latino friend of mine, who was a brilliant dancer, auditioned several times for a Bob Fosse Broadway musical but Gwen turned him down because there was already a Black dancer in the show. My friend wasn't or looked Black. He clearly looked Latino. At that time (1980s) one minority cast member was enough in a majority white cast show. During his last audition Bob Fosse showed up to everyone's surprise and when Gwen told my friend again that there was already a black dancer in the show, Bob intervened and say that my friend was one of the most talented young men that he had ever seen. It turns out, that on my friend's first evening performance, the principal dancer got sick and there was no one to replace him. Gwen asked if anyone would volunteer. But no one volunteered because they hadn't memorized his routine. Hesitantly my friend raised his hand, but Gwen ignored him. The cast started shouting give him a chance. Visibly annoyed; she turned to my friend and said: I hope you are not going to waste my time and embarrass yourself. He took to center stage and performed the routine flawlessly. Besides being an extraordinary talented dancer, he was also gifted with an incredible photographic memory. He had auditioned so many times that he had memorized all the step variations of the show. The whole cast stood up screaming and showering him with applauses. Gwen was forced to move him from the last row to front row, elevating him to principal dancer. But she never acknowledged his presence with a simple hello during the entire season. His was preparing to be the next Raul Júlia. He could dance, act and sing. But he left us too soon. My unforgettable friend was among the enormous number of super talented people that we lost to AIDS.