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 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 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.
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.)
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.
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.
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/
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.
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I'll give it to Deney Terrio.
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I'm trying to remember if they danced together.
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Yes, It, It, It, It, It..........."
uh, no...
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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.
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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.
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I looked on You Tube and there is a dance there from TE2 ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuRlZ0Mp9gw
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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/
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Re: together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuRlZ0Mp9gw
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I seriously should not LJ before caffeine.
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