It's Always Fair Weather (motion picture) - Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Cyd Charisse (performers) (trailer) (1955)
Title
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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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).
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
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)
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Date
1955 September 2
Citation
“It's Always Fair Weather (motion picture) - Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Cyd Charisse (performers) (trailer) (1955),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed September 16, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/321.