Trixie Firschke Juggling with Fred Astaire

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Trixie Firschke Juggling with Fred Astaire

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16 жыл бұрын

Trixie Firschke juggling with Fred Astaire in the audition scene from the 1940 movie "Broadway Melody of 1940".

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@dannowman5761 3 жыл бұрын

Trixie was a great friend of mine. Her youngest son was a college buddy of mine. I even went on a vacation with the family once and she gracefully performed at one of my shows. A really sweet lady.

@gregoryalbert379 Жыл бұрын

What an absolute delight. Trixie is so highly skilled that her performance is as if she is performing right this moment. What an incredible woman juggler. Thank you for showing this scene.

@manipool 9 жыл бұрын

Just watched it. She was magnificent! Great eye hand coordination. Brava!

@stankimer9980 Жыл бұрын

I loved this scene from the movie! Trixie is fantastic

@vladtepes97 15 жыл бұрын

i'm watching this movie on tv at this moment. this scene just ended. i missed the beginning of it, so i felt compelled to try and find it. amazing skill.

@divadgivin369 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. She rules.

@Darmesis 15 жыл бұрын

Loved how the old movies would have scenes with skilled vaudeville-types in them. Modern filmmakers should take note and place these performers more often in their comedies to give us nifty little things to talk of after the credits roll. Thanks for posting AW720.

@esmeephillips5888 5 жыл бұрын

Even for a comedy interlude between the dances and songs, a studio such as Metro always hired the best of their kind. Value for money every minute. The audience coming out of the moviehouse must have been burbling with excitement and satisfaction-- or did they take it all for granted and at the price of a few cents? This is an extended example of Fred's fabled 'nonchalance' and modesty: his heck-I'm-only-human-after-all side. You keep expecting him suddenly to fight back with some brilliant juggling move, but no... he's willing to play the patsy and be upstaged by a maestro. He never looked more like a young, better-looking Stan Laurel than in this scene. But as always he triumphs in the end, if only by the grace with which he let his screen persona of effortless supremacy be undercut. That's charm.

@devwegvweyvfgedvyhwe 13 жыл бұрын

legend!!! inspiration for me.Trixie Firschke

@mandydax 12 жыл бұрын

Oh, wow, she's amazing! :D

@timothybassey2039 4 жыл бұрын

What amazing skill. Just wow!

@esmeephillips5888 Жыл бұрын

Search 'Cineviews in Brief No. 14' for a glimpse of Martha 'Trixie' Firschke doing the ball-and-mouthstick routine in 1937, the year before the family emigrated from Austria to the States.

@keristly 5 жыл бұрын

😍😍😍😍😍

@KevinAxtell 16 жыл бұрын

Holy Crap! Now thats skill - Trixie rox!

@Fuliginosus 5 жыл бұрын

Some of those tricks would be difficult even for me!

@deanevans2505 3 жыл бұрын

The man sitting beside Fred Astaire was Mickey Rooney's father, Joseph Yule.

@scottcain7856 4 жыл бұрын

An excellent book on TRIXIE can be purchased here: app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/trixie-child-prodigy-skating-star-and-juggling-icon/55f15ba8-2213-4e0f-9bf0-4042230369aa?isbn=9781947136502

@gfitz6001 2 жыл бұрын

Did she really do what I thought I saw her do? 🤣

@esmeephillips5888 4 жыл бұрын

As an interpolated cameo, she's certainly preferable to the guy who lectured on sneezing and snoring in the previous 'Broadway Melodies'. Trixie came from a circus family in Vienna and took up juggling at 11 because she got dizzy on the high wire. She was under 20 here but was already so good that colleagues would bet on how many mistakes she would make in a season- normally they could be counted on one hand. She went on to feature in the Ice Capades until the mid-Fifties. She married a Native American fellow trouper and retired to the Middle West, where she had six kids. Eventually she got a Lifetime Achievement award from the jugglers' trade body. This was her only Hollywood credit, but I have seen amateur video of her doing incredible acrobatics on skates, such as backflips. Maybe the screen missed a combo of Eleanor Powell and Sonja Henie.

@hebneh Жыл бұрын

By 1940, she was very lucky to have left Vienna for the USA - for having left all of Europe, in fact.

@esmeephillips5888 Жыл бұрын

@@hebneh The family went to the USA in 1938 for commercial, not political, reasons. Trixie as a teenager performed at the Scala in Berlin when Hitler was in the audience. He congratulated her and gave her a box of candy.

@hebneh Жыл бұрын

@@esmeephillips5888 Regardless of why they left, it was a lucky choice.