- Description
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Dancing Lady / Fred Astaire [film]
- Title
- Dancing Lady [Film]
- Performers
- Astaire, Fred
- Crawford, Joan
- Published/Created
- 1933-11-27
- Genre
- Film
- Note
- MGM
- Abstract
- Full-length sound film featuring Joan Crawford as Fred Astaire's first movie dance partner on film dancing to "Heigh-Ho, The Gang's All Here" which used hard-driving, floor-slamming steps and "Let's Go Bavarian" a fast and jazz routine with a sophisticated sense of rhythm and with an interesting ending: while pivoting on one foot, the dancers repeatedly stomp the floor heavily with the other, seemingly coaxing the music to slow down. This film also launched Astaire's film career.
Crawford was under contract to MGM for four years when the studio put her in its all-star "Hollywood Revue of 1929." She had one number, "Gotta Feeling for You" which could easily have headed her her toward a career as a dancing star, except that is not what she wanted which was to be a dramatic actress. Her dance style was assertive, labored and heavy (similar to the style of Ruby Keeler), opposite of the swift lyricism of Astaire. - Source
- Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015