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.

[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.)

[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.

[alymid.livejournal.com]

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

[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/

[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.

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

And Danny Thomas as Captain Sisko!