The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1180232]

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[powersalad.livejournal.com]

Major toughie. In a way it's apples & oranges (but then again so is Kirk/Picard) While Astaire exemplified grace and sophistication and Kelly re-energized things with the "technical" side, acrobatics and jazz, they frequently crossed into each others "territories" quite well.

I'll give it to Deney Terrio.

[ericcoleman]

I thought so too. I like the tough ones like this. For me I just like Kelly's movies better, and his style better. But they were both top of their game.

I'm trying to remember if they danced together.

[ericcoleman]

By the way, every morning when I set these up, I have a little tune going through my head. Can you guess which?

[powersalad.livejournal.com]

"It's the Most Important Question of the Day
Yes, It, It, It, It, It..........."

uh, no...

[ericcoleman]

I will have a list of the songs that the WSPA has insisted on having on CD in my car soon. At least two of them will be Power Salad songs ... maybe three.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

But the deciding factor for me was a 60s TV show where he didn't even dance.

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a very close call, but "Puttin' on the Ritz" edged it out just enough for me! (Any version, really ... although this morning my brain insists on running Young Frankenstein together with the one by Taco.)

[ericcoleman]

That's a remix waiting to happen

[celticmom1967.livejournal.com]

WOW THIS WAS A HARD ONE! Way to stump me controuble.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Gene Kelly, if just for the goofy smile on his face when he danced.

And the way he modified his dance style when dancing with, for instance, Donald O'Connor, in Singing in the Rain.

I don't believe Kelly and Astaire ever danced together on film, however.

[ericcoleman]

I seem to remember, but I can't find a verification, that there was a mention when That's Entertainment came out, that it was the first time they had appeared in the same film.

And now that I look, it seems that they do dance together in That's Entertainment part II. I'll have to take a look tonight when I get home.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Do they actually dance together? Or is it clips of them interspliced?

[ericcoleman]

I don't remember. I have this image in my head of the two of them dancing though. They are separate in the first film, but I think that the second has them together some of the time.

[erik]

I don't know if they danced together in those films, but they did dance together:

[ericcoleman]

You are one of two folks who posted this. I knew I remembered something.

I looked on You Tube and there is a dance there from TE2 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuRlZ0Mp9gw

[alymid.livejournal.com]

for me it was really a no contest - but I've really like Gene Kelly for a long time.

[ericcoleman]

It wasn't much of a contest for me, I have generally always preferred Gene Kelly

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Gene Kelly but only barely. "Singin' In The Rain" was one of my "comfort films" in film school.

IMDB.com has a function where you can find all productions where two different people's names were listed. Most of what comes up with these two notables seem to be compilations like THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT and various tributes. However, "Ziegfeld Follies" [1946] appears to fill the bill with their only known joint number, "The Babbit and the Bromide." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039116/

together

[controuble.livejournal.com]

Yup here it is

Re: together

[ericcoleman]

and in TE2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuRlZ0Mp9gw

[wyngarde.livejournal.com]

Gene Kelly stared as a drunk in a movie with Evel Kneivel. Can't beat that.

[singlemaltsilk.livejournal.com]

In this, I am Switzerland.

[ericcoleman]

I dunno, you strike me as much more of a Gene Kelly sort of person ... dunno why

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Can I be Sweden?

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

And Danny Thomas as Captain Sisko!

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

Argh, Danny KAYE, not Danny Thomas.

I seriously should not LJ before caffeine.

[ericcoleman]

Ok, it still doesn't make any sense in this context

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't. But it made perfect sense to me this morning, when I had just woken up from five hours of sleep and no caffeine... it had something to do with The Court Jester, that much I remember.