Daddy Long Legs (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron (performers) (1955)(no video link)
Subject
Ballet dancing
Swing (Dance)
Musicals
Description
Content description from Wikipedia.org (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Long_Legs_(1955_film)) :
Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, Julie Andre (Leslie Caron). He anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Her nickname for him, "Daddy Long Legs", is taken from the description of him given to Andre by some of her fellow orphans who see his shadow as he leaves their building.
Several years later, he visits her at school, still concealing his identity. Despite their large age difference, they fall in love.
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Two small clippings from Under Cover magazine with program description and captioned photos. Handwritten notes on folder: Under Cover 11 August, 1985 KAET. First few minutes missing.
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Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Jean Negulesco (director)
Samuel G. Engel (producer)
Fred Astaire (actor)
Leslie Caron (actor)
Terry Moore (actor)
Thelma Ritter (actor)
Fred Clark (actor)
Flying Down to Rio (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Gene Raymond (performers) (trailer) (1933)
Subject
Musicals
Motion pictures
Airplane wing dance
URL
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Description
Content Description from WorldCat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Down_to_Rio):
Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 American pre-Code RKO musical film noted for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, although Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond received top billing and the leading roles. Among the featured players are Franklin Pangborn and Eric Blore. The songs in the film were written by Vincent Youmans (music), Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu (lyrics), with musical direction and additional music by Max Steiner. This is the only film in which Rogers was billed above famed Broadway dancer Astaire.
The black-and-white film (later computer-colorized) was directed by Thornton Freeland and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Lou Brock. The screenplay was written by Erwin S. Gelsey, H. W. Hanemann and Cyril Hume, based on a story by Lou Brock and a play by Anne Caldwell. Linwood Dunn did the special effects for the celebrated airplane-wing dance sequence at the end of the film. In this film, Dolores Del Rio became the first major actress to wear a two-piece women's bathing suit onscreen.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One small clipping from Under Cover magazine with program listing and brief description. Handwritten note on folder: Under Cover KAET, 18 August, 1985.
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Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Dolores del Río, and Gene Raymond (performers)
It's Always Fair Weather (motion picture) - Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Cyd Charisse (performers) (trailer) (1955)
Subject
Motion pictures
Musicals
Swing (Dance)
URL
Trailer
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Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Always_Fair_Weather):
It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM musical satire scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, with music by André Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, and dancer/choreographer Michael Kidd in his first film acting role. The film, co-directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, was made in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor. Although well received critically at the time, it was not a commercial success, and is widely regarded as the last of the major MGM dance oriented musicals. In recent years it has been recognized as a seminal film because of the inventiveness of its dance routines. It's Always Fair Weather is noted for its downbeat theme, which may have hurt it at the box office, and has been called a rare cynical musical.
Ephemera: Availabale throught the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Two pages from Arizona Republic TV guide. Handwritten notes by JWK: 3 men - Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kid. Cyd Cherrise, Jane Meadows. Two especially noteworthy dances. Beginning - 3 men dance w/trash can lids on their feet. Near end - Gene Kelly dances on roller skates in the street. (one sequence not recorded - Dan Dailey dancing drunk & turning point of plot).
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Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen (director)
Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Cyd Charisse (performers)