How neat! There are 2 sax players - is he the one on the left or right side? Just curious! Your post made me smile!

Oh nice, please tell us more about your Dad. I love it when we can share and reflect on other's life stories. Everyone has their own story to be sure.

Oh, a wonderful comment indeed! The great Fred Astaire was able to maintain a very high level in the "Art of Dance" for years - well into his sixties, in fact. His 1958 "television spectacular," called, "An Evening With Fred Astaire" ("live and in color") won a boatload of awards. He was brilliant - and his young co-star, Barrie Chase (who is still with us at age 90) became an overnight star. Congratulations, to you, Michael (and your partner) on your own happy achievement.

I was surprised to see that the trumpet player for this song is still going strong😯

@@Tora-Tora-Tora- is he? Wow, must be mid-90's !!!

How amazing! As of today, March 28, 2024, the internet shows he's still going strong and 102. Bless him. :-) Birthdate: January 20, 1922

@@LL-oc1xw Yes true, thanks for your comment! As a fun aside, the very handsome and talented Mr. Anthony was once married to the beautiful actress Mamie Van Doren (who is now 93 and still going strong herself). The couple had a child together (Perry, born in 1956) who recently turned 68. Ray Anthony remarked to his son (in the last couple years) that "your parents" have close to 200 years of (combined) life experience. What an amazing thought!

That's really wonderful!

Because he practiced til it was perfect that's why it always looks effortless he was great

beautiful comments. Thank you. Fred showed so much courage. He must have been so hard for him but you wouldn't know watching😢

Yes she was classically trained, but she does look stiff in the neck here in this dance. Compare her to the ballerina Plisetskaya [whose neck was supple as a cat's [same era almost], and it's a night-and-day difference, .... Maybe it's just that this choreography is all set up to make Astaire look cool, but in fact it's not grateful for Caron. The color scheme tells us that she's the girl Astaire's gonna get, and there's a lot of attention to the surly guys who're miffed that the old man has outshone them.... and that's the point of the scene -- Astaire is forever young. so she has to look like one of the kids who just ended up by a fluke dancing with him. It's not a "star is born' set-up for her, and frankly, if I were her agent I'd have lodged a complaint about her choreography. She DOES look great in all the pictures from her days with Roland Petit's ballet company.

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Yes. Fred Astaire was a good actor. He was very gifted and had so much charisma.

I didn't know that. He was a true professional.

Excelent,yery beautiful!!!!!!

Hello Mary, How are you doing today?

Leslie is in her 80’s now and she still moves like the ballerina she was

@@sheilarough236 go to her recent interview with Michael Portillo. Great interview. She's still stunning.

Hello Christine, How are you doing?

Take a look at him dancing at the 1970 Oscars. Sure, not as good as when he was younger, but he was 71 years old and still a better dancer than anyone today that I can think of.

Love Fred Astaire. He was an extraordinarily talented dancer, who could also sing and act. Leslie Caron vibrant & graceful. ❤

I'm just shy of middling and born way after these films were already old and they're still iconic. Absolute legends

I’m 82yrs. and this is one of my favorites. I was 16 when this came out and to this day this is still my favorite scene of any film. 💕🥰💕🎶💃🕺🎶😎

yep, they broke the mold.

Loved Leslie Caron. She was magnifique

They sure don't make them like that any more. What a fantastic dance. I am 61 and have loved the 50's all my life. My favourite is Gene Kelly, but I do love Fred.

I DIDNT KNOW BUT ONLY THE TRUE ARTIST COULD DO THAT

Excelente recuerdo. Las peliculas eran para disfrutarlas ahora son para alterar la presion y el sistema nervioso.

+Bernardo Martinez I wouldn't watch a movie where a young twenty-something sponsored by a fifty-something ends up marrying him under dubious circumstances with your grandchildren... but that's just me.

Agreed.

That's a good observation. And it's too bad, too. Assuming fans of Fred Astaire's are automatically old fogies. Tsk, tsk.

Better than watching Stacey Abrams

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@@christinemusselman5499 LOVE IT --TODAY GARBAGE MUSIC

I just got an ad about how you can lose a foot to diabetes.

Well, Baryshnikov thought so. That's good enough for me.

A symphony of wit, musicality and line. Yes, surely the greatest.

Yes, but don't forget the Nicholas Brothers.

Girvan Paterson Great to see Fred still performing, but he's much too old to be involved with Miss Caron.

grafter kind of the point of the whole movie

@@grafter8337 I would say the same if it weren't for the fact that she loves him too. She was so broken up over him when he left her be.

You're right! Great among the best ever! What a number! Emmanuel from Paris France

YOU ARE ABSOLUTLY RIGHT BUT NEITHER US

The guy wasn’t even breathing hard. Amazing.

IF YOU DIDN'T SEE HOLIDAY INN, HE BROKE ALL RECORDS IN THIS FILM.THE SNAP &POP TAP DANCE WAS PHONEMAL!!

Francais

Love that, Maxmiliano! Keep dancing!

I wish you had filmed it!!!

If you like this cinematography, there's some great use of CinemaScope and spread out choreography in the musical Brigadoon (1954).

Gabriel Coronado is

Yeah, best buds with Hugh Hefner until Hugh's death. I'm sure he used his looks well, lol. May still be doing so, at 98 and counting...

Who wouldn’t be?

Hmmm - may have to argue a little there - the greatest dancers of all time were the Nicholas Brothers. But Fred did a pretty good second place.

@@philipmeckley5154 I DO agree with yu about the Nicholas brothers, of course ! You're right.

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@@AnaMaria-vz6px I think you may have accidentally dropped something on your keyboard.

You´re probably not a dancer yourself, are you? “fred Astaire and Leslie Caron were among the greatest dancers in cinema history and certainly prove it here!.“ I could agree on that. There´s always the question of taste right? But... “There just isn't anyone of their calibrer working today.” That is simple not true. Just because you don´t know them, doesn´t mean they´re not there. ;-) I personally know dancers who could do this and a lot more, they just don´t get the attention and recognition Mr. Astaire got. In my days, about 30 years ago I, myself would probably have been able to come up and do a routine like that. Sure, in his days he was one of the greatest, he was also one of the first. Wich gave him an advantage. But there were hoovers who were better than him. Their problem was; They were black. Just saying...

@@peteraschaffenburg1 Sorry, 30 years ago i didn't see your name on any Marquee on the three continents i lived on..! About the POC dancers from the past the greatest was Mister Bojangles Bill Robinson...! He was more than a match for Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire...

@@dominiqueschaffner308 I‘m not quite sure what you’re saying with the first part of your comment but what I meant was that even I, as a nobody, could have performed a routine like that. For the second part we seem to agree. Am I right?

@@peteraschaffenburg1 hoofers not hoovers lol

@@robertmudrow8034 thank you 🙏! I’m not a native English speaker. I do speak 3 more languages though.😉

keocntsy They were 200% correct. Look how stiff she looks! She doesn't move her arms or shoulders well at all! Rita Hayworth would have nailed this dance!

@@jordanbaker1647 I think Caron does just fine -- she was a far more technically skilled dancer than Astaire's most famous partner, Ginger Rogers was. Astaire apparently thought Caron was just fine too, as he specifically wanted her for the part, and 20th Century Fox had to borrow her from MGM (Darryl F. Zanuck had originally meant to cast Mitzi Gaynor). Rita Hayworth was too old, given the whole plot revolved around a rich older man falling for the young orphan girl he's sponsored through college -- and Hayworth was 37 when this film was made.

Jordan Baker don’t agree ballet is all about posture she matches Fred step for step he told I can’t do what you do Leslie Caron recalled meeting Fred Astaire after being cast as his co-star. About her ballet training he said, "Kid, you're going to have to do what I do, because I sure don't do what you do." I saw Leslie Caron repeat the above quotation on a television show about Fred Astaire; which one it was, I've forgotten.

Sorry, I just don't see the "upper body stiffness". (Speaking as the (former) husband of a dance teacher). She constantly matched Astaire, not only step=for-step, but in "fluid movements" as well. As a matter of fact, during the closing moments of this particular dance sequence, when the "backup dancers" lifted them both to their shoulders, you can see Astaire lean over and say something to Caron. What he reportedly said was "...you were/are beautiful" !! High praise from the Master !!

Certainly there is some tension in her shoulders, but she just wasn’t as well matched energetically as Hayworth was. She a better dancer than Hayworth just not a better partner to Him. Hayworth connected with him better but had sloppy hands.

In one way at least, it was the other way around. He told her, during filming, that she'd have to learn to dance in his style, because he couldn't dance in the classical ballet style she was trained in. But that said, there's no doubt Fred Astaire was a true genius in his field: he drew upon some ballet with ballroom dance, tap, and more, and combined it with a natural gracefulness that no one else had, to become one of the greatest of all time, and as much as his partners are complimented for doing it "backwards and in high heels" the truth is that Eleanor Powell is probably the only one who could match him step for step.

Another superlative partner of Fred Astaire's was Lucille Bremer in "Yolanda and the Thief". Their "Coffee Tiime " dance number can be seen on You Tube on the Broadway Classix channel. If you haven't seen this yet you're in for something special.

Nemmeno io!!

Hello Valerie, How are you doing?

While Fred Astaire did not dance in a ballet - he did take ballet dance lessons.

Aden -- because men don't want to learn to really dance. Go into any ballroom dance studio and you'll see plenty of women but not so many men. 😞

The fact is that Fred Astaire brought warmth and happiness into so many people's lives is a tribute to his talent as an actor and entertainer.

It's been at least a year now since you posted this comment. Did you ever learn the dance?