Surely there's some sexism in that statement somewhere, isn't there ? Can't we find any ? After all, we know that everyone was sexist and racist 70 years ago, don't we !
@@mofa9745 YOU are the one bringing in negativity where no one else was. YOU are the one trying to stir problems. YOU are the one who brought up sexism (?) and racism (?!) when no one was talking about that. Everyone was having fun, laughing at the flawless humour of the dialogue and YOU brought your party pooper attitude. Yet I bet you’re the type to complain about triggered snowflakes! Pot calling the kettle black…
So much talent here! Something that also impresses me is how so much motion and action takes place in a small space. For example: the illusion of people running a long distance when they are actually dancing within a few square feet. All the dancers here and the choreographer deserve a lot of praise---and they have it from me! Well done!
Vera Ellen will always be one of my all time favorite movie dancers. She could do it all and her technique in so many genres of dance is impeccable. Astonishing. I wish she would have been given more credit. And more films. She was also tiny but so amazingly strong and athletic, yet with the ability to make it all look so easy and light. There will never be another like Vera Ellen.
Vera is vastly underrated nowadays. She was one of the greatest movie dancers ever. Very disciplined and extremely versatile, doing everything from ballet to tap expertly. Not to mention unbelievably cute. She's in the highest echelon, a peer with Cyd Charisse.
Vera-Ellen: one of only two people who could keep up with Fred Astaire (Eleanor Powell was the other). Fred was incredible, making the difficult look easy, but Vera-Ellen had a wider range of styles she could do equally well. She was simply the best.
Vera Ellen is number one, The best dancer in the world both classically trained and acrobatic, tap master Not Eleamnor Powell, sorry, I put her after Cyd Charisse, even tho Charisse never did tap, she could have and did everything else beautifully
I love discovering talents like hers pretty much by accident. She's a bit before my time and I've never explored all these great musicals. There's no denying her brilliance, that's for sure.
I am 19 yrs old. This movie is my fave movie of Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra together. But I gotta say, this scene is one of my favorites. The talent shown is purely awesome. I haven't seen anyone in my age which matches this one.
Vera Ellen was considered the best female dancer of her time; as well as the hardest working dancer by her peers. Co-stars,directors,choreographers etc have said she was a joy to work with never complained and was patient/kind with everyone. She made one more picture after 'White Christmas' and retired for good. Sadly she passed away in her early sixties.
There's "hot, and there's "sizzling hot." Vera Ellen was "sizzling hot" in this number, and in many others as well. She was the finest and sexiest female dancer I ever saw.
She makes it all look so easy!...kinda like Astaire. The very best can pull that off. Side note: that gold lamé dress nearly floored the retro-fashion geek in me. 😍
Vera Ellen was an athlete who expressed herself in dance...and what an AMAZING dancer (ala White Christmas) with the epitome of dancer's legs, no matter what size.
It seems that when a dancer really enjoys what they're doing,regardless of the role,it shows. As a result,it makes them fun to watch. When I was a teenager, I watched my first ballet (The Nutcracker) and I was a little bored (I was also a third wheel on my brother's date). But the dancer playing Fritz was having so much fun with such a minor role, he made the ballet fun to watch as well.
Vera-Ellen appeared in only 14 movies, made over an 12 year period from 1945 to 1957. She made TV appearances through the 1950s before retiring in 1959 at the age of 38.
This was awesome! But you can tell really she had been in a fight by the way she was holding her hands in her “fighting stance.” Super fun to watch tho! Such skill.
The "fight" scene of this is amazing. Equal parts humor athetisim and precision. No one was an eighth of an inch off. They couldnt be. When hwood had talent!
She is good one of the very best check her out if u not familiar with her work Obviously White Christmas and i remember dancing with the also very great Donald O Conner in ? Call me Madam ? Dancers are athletes and put in hard work to become as if by overnight magic Great thanx for posting
2:44-2:50 if you look carefully, you can see Vera-Ellen wince when her hair hits her face. lol Anyway, this is one of my favorite scenes from the movie. Thanks for the upload! ^.^
Vera Ellen was overall a very talented and versatile Ballet dancer in which she incorporated pirouetting, gymnastic movements and accomplished somersaults. She was Cyd Charisse, Eleanor Powell and Leslie Caron, all rolled into one. She had a panache like no other. Her films had some of the most ebullient dance sequences ever to be caught on celluloid.
Jim Stark. No need for name calling. She was born with the talent to dance, and with training developed the skill to do it very well. Try using your brain and think before you write insults.
There are scores of dancers today who do the same. It's not difficult to find both talented and trained dancers pretty much everywhere. Maybe Jim Stark's name calling was unnecessary, but the original comment seemed to be without purpose.
Nothing to do with class. You cherry picked one choreographed piece from a movie to compare it to another cherry picked example today. There were burlesque dancers then and there are the same today. There are plenty of people doing the same and more than Vera did.
Nothing to do with class. You cherry picked one choreographed piece from a movie to compare it to another cherry picked example today. There were burlesque dancers then and there are the same today. There are plenty of dancers today doing the same and better than Vera did. some are just not exposed enough to know it.
Now I realize why the producers felt compelled to cast an NYC Ballet Star in the Broadway revival (which I saw BEFORE checking out the movie) and why the beefed up the dancing bits to justify the Ballet casting... great Production!
This was John Neumeir's version,so it wasn't quite the Nutcracker that most people were used to seeing. Maria is turning thirteen and it doesn't happen at Christmas,but on her birthday. Since then I've seen regular Nutcrackers and other story ballets. This was back in 1984 with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. The fellow I saw playing Fritz was Martin Schlapfer ,who is now the artistic director for the Ballet Am Rhein in Dusseldorf. (just a bit of trivia).
I am 90% certain that this film was choreographed by Gene Kelly & Hermes Pan. -------Note, Vera is most certainly NOT TOO SKINNY HERE! ------------------WolfSky9
YES!! The messaging to society that women have to be EVERYTHING to be even acceptable or average has been going on forever and still is and it never ceases to make me catch my breath in shock (though nothing should be less shocking at this point). If no one "bought it" it wouldn't matter but men expect this of women and women expect it of themselves...and I'm very grateful I do not buy it and live alone in the woods. Lol. Seriously.
So glad there's an apparently great revival of the real ON THE TOWN now, on Broadway, with all the magnificent music, songs, dances, etc., that were cut out of the movie. This is nice, but the original is in a different, much better ballpark.
+SassPrincess Of the Sassy Kingdom She was anorexic to keep her weight down. In fact it caused so much premature aging in upper body that is why she is covered in "White Christmas". I grew up watching her films and in awe by her hummingbird swift toes and teeny waist. Three Little words is my fav. with Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. RIP Vera.
That comment about her having to cover her chest in White Christmas because of premature aging due to anorexia has actually been debunked. There are photos of her at the same time wearing dresses that exposed that area and she looks just fine. Obviously, she was anorexic, just that part about her having to be covered wasn't true.
Jenn Powell I can believe that,(being debunked about the covering up that is). I don't know,(I could figure it out, if I wasn't lazy XD, as to what was going on in her life at that time?), what personal issues she was dealing with? She was married to a Rothchild and I imagine that brings a lot of pressure...but also she lost 2 children and after the second died she withdrew from public life. Can't say I blame her. She seemed like she had a kindly position/personality? Something about her face seemed like she was not a snob,(does this make sense?), at least I hope not because I really like her and was reared on her dancing....even more than Rogers, Miller or Cherise. She doesn't get the recognition for her talent as she should, IMO :) My parents would always mistake her for Mitzi Gaynor....but there is an obvious difference to me. :) Bisous!
thanks lol - saw a lot of arguments about it. i'm not saying for sure that she was anorexic, and even if she was doesn't make her a terrible person, but a lot of ppl seemed to think that's what i meant. whether she had an eating disorder or not, she was DEFINITELY thinner in White Christmas, and I personally didn't think she looked healthy. Anywho, thanks for the support :) lol
"Men 'were' in control in the culture? Wow, you have been living under a rock." "Degree" was the operative word in the sentence you got that from, and of course you know that, but when you have nothing to argue with, by all means distort the other one's statements.
dralockhart, compare the women who appear as models in men's magazines with those that appear in the women's magazines, and come back and tell us again that it is men who pressure women to be thin. Men are not attracted to overly thin women. Overly thin women grace the pages of women's style and fashion magazines, and these images are largely promoted by other women.
she definitely lost weight since this movie which was very early in her career.she was significantly skinnier in white christmas, so if she wasn't anorexic, she was definitely severely underweight.
Houston She’s still the youngest Radio City Rockette (age 16 in 1937) and made her Broadway debut in 1939. “A Connecticut Yankee” in 1943 got her a contract from Sam Goldwyn. Sang passably on stage but was always dubbed in film. Though there is a youtube reunion of her with her “By Jupiter” fellow player, Ray Bolger where she sings on his show. Definitely lost weight in the 1950’s. Fred Astaire in his auto bio commented that she was always pushing in on her cheeks. Biggest tragedy was her losing her only daughter to SIDS at 3 months in 1963. She withdrew from public life and died in 1981 at 60
@@esmeephillips5888 You know this? How? I would say the better explanation, since anorexia was unknown at the time, is that Vera-Ellen abused diet pills much like Judy Garland, hence the dramatic weight loss (plus tight corseting in some costumes) in this film and her later films. Diet pills would cause dramatic weight loss over a shorter period of time than anorexia would. Films during this era were shot over a period of weeks rather than months or a couple of years.
Unfortunately she was underrated then and I think more appreciated now. (but who knows - what goes on behind the doors back then - maybe she just said NO!)
This is MeToo bullshit. She was never under rated. She was a top dancing star back then. It's just that now, for some unknown reason, she's become interesting to people who have no idea who she was or what she did.
"She's got to be brilliant, beautiful and talented. Just an average girl." That always cracks me up.
+EvilTreeFrogs I've seen this movie many times and I never noticed that bit of irony. Thanks for pointing it out! Funny.
@@larrydirtybird yep, the whole bit is full of oxymoronic phrases, like"she's a frail, flower-like creature... but oh boy, what an athlete!" Lol. :)
Surely there's some sexism in that statement somewhere, isn't there ? Can't we find any ? After all, we know that everyone was sexist and racist 70 years ago, don't we !
@@mofa9745 YOU are the one bringing in negativity where no one else was. YOU are the one trying to stir problems. YOU are the one who brought up sexism (?) and racism (?!) when no one was talking about that.
Everyone was having fun, laughing at the flawless humour of the dialogue and YOU brought your party pooper attitude. Yet I bet you’re the type to complain about triggered snowflakes!
Pot calling the kettle black…
and "frail", although that wasn't demonstrated 🙃
So much talent here! Something that also impresses me is how so much motion and action takes place in a small space. For example: the illusion of people running a long distance when they are actually dancing within a few square feet. All the dancers here and the choreographer deserve a lot of praise---and they have it from me! Well done!
And me! There was so much brilliant stuff in this routine.
The precision required in the choreography of the 'fight' scenes, so that she doesn't kick anybody in the jaw, is mind-boggling! Bravo to all! 😮
Jo Blow
😄 💃 😆
Vera Ellen will always be one of my all time favorite movie dancers. She could do it all and her technique in so many genres of dance is impeccable. Astonishing. I wish she would have been given more credit. And more films. She was also tiny but so amazingly strong and athletic, yet with the ability to make it all look so easy and light. There will never be another like Vera Ellen.
Vera-Ellen is greatly underrated and under appreciated. She deserves a place as one of the greats of Golden Era Hollywood.
Vera is vastly underrated nowadays. She was one of the greatest movie dancers ever. Very disciplined and extremely versatile, doing everything from ballet to tap expertly. Not to mention unbelievably cute. She's in the highest echelon, a peer with Cyd Charisse.
Vera-Ellen: one of only two people who could keep up with Fred Astaire (Eleanor Powell was the other). Fred was incredible, making the difficult look easy, but Vera-Ellen had a wider range of styles she could do equally well. She was simply the best.
when i saw her hop en pointe my mouth dropped
Not many could pull off that kind of broad comedy and dance so very well at the same time.
Vera Ellen is number one, The best dancer in the world both classically trained and acrobatic, tap master
Not Eleamnor Powell, sorry, I put her after Cyd Charisse, even tho Charisse never did tap, she could have and did everything else beautifully
The entire movie is underrated
I love discovering talents like hers pretty much by accident. She's a bit before my time and I've never explored all these great musicals. There's no denying her brilliance, that's for sure.
This is one of Vera's best all-time dances. Simply marvelous. Thanks so much for posting this. Peace.
Hypnotizing.. Vera Ellen's a gem. I'm sorry for her and her baby. I'm sorry for what happened to her!
Miss Turnstiles. The modern subway systems need to bring back this tradition.
Now it would be a 300 lb ghettopotamus.
She was a phenomenon, and sparkling to watch.
One of my favorite clips of all time! I had this scene recorded on my family's VCR back in the 1980s and watched it over and over again.
Gee, she's wonderful. That my heart melt😍😍😍❤️
Genius choreography. I never heard of her before this video. Enjoyed every second of this
She’s literally so adorable 🥺🥺
I am 19 yrs old. This movie is my fave movie of Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra together. But I gotta say, this scene is one of my favorites.
The talent shown is purely awesome. I haven't seen anyone in my age which matches this one.
Oh my is she real?!! I loooove this!
Definitely one of my all-time faves....visited her grave a few years back...high in the mountains above L.A.
They pick a NEW Miss Turnstiles EVERY month. What a town!!!!
LOL
She's amazing, and those fellows are doing a great job keeping up with her.
Her variety shows are just pure TV gems!
wow what a great dance number, vera-ellen is adorable!
she is such a great dancer!
Great choreography.
vickbond008 Gene was the choreographer
She was incredible
Vera-Ellen was too cute in that movie... and she danced beautifully!
I want to watch all her filmography.
Vera Ellen was considered the best female dancer of her time; as well as the hardest working dancer by her peers. Co-stars,directors,choreographers etc have said she was a joy to work with never complained and was patient/kind with everyone. She made one more picture after 'White Christmas' and retired for good. Sadly she passed away in her early sixties.
I once read that Vera-Ellen is one of only two ladies who could keep up with Fred Astaire! (Eleanor Powell was the other)
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 such an incredible lady (and dance team)
Very good Vera. Love Her in White Christmas. R.I.P.
There's "hot, and there's "sizzling hot." Vera Ellen was "sizzling hot" in this number, and in many others as well. She was the finest and sexiest female dancer I ever saw.
She makes it all look so easy!...kinda like Astaire. The very best can pull that off.
Side note: that gold lamé dress nearly floored the retro-fashion geek in me. 😍
Vera Ellen was an athlete who expressed herself in dance...and what an AMAZING dancer (ala White Christmas) with the epitome of dancer's legs, no matter what size.
It seems that when a dancer really enjoys what they're doing,regardless of the role,it shows. As a result,it makes them fun to watch.
When I was a teenager, I watched my first ballet (The Nutcracker) and I was a little bored (I was also a third wheel on my brother's date). But the dancer playing Fritz was having so much fun with such a minor role, he made the ballet fun to watch as well.
Vera-Ellen appeared in only 14 movies, made over an 12 year period from 1945 to 1957. She made TV appearances through the 1950s before retiring in 1959 at the age of 38.
This was awesome! But you can tell really she had been in a fight by the way she was holding her hands in her “fighting stance.”
Super fun to watch tho! Such skill.
Bless Vera forever. I love you
"what a girl!" I love Vera!!! :) :)
Amazing performance 👍👍👍
This was great!!!
The "fight" scene of this is amazing. Equal parts humor athetisim and precision. No one was an eighth of an inch off. They couldnt be. When hwood had talent!
That was so much fun!🎉🎉🎉
Simply fantastic
What a routine! Superb.
She is good one of the very best check her out if u not familiar with her work Obviously White Christmas and i remember dancing with the also very great Donald O Conner in ? Call me Madam ? Dancers are athletes and put in hard work to become as if by overnight magic Great thanx for posting
cant take my eyes off her...she's brilliant!
Bravo!
Sensational scene
In White Christmas (which I watch every year) I’ve marveled how small her waist was. She was amazing and highly underrated.
Fred Astaire once said that Vera-Ellen was the only one of his dance partners with a waist smaller than his, LOL :-)
Oh yes. So delicate.
fantastic
2:44-2:50 if you look carefully, you can see Vera-Ellen wince when her hair hits her face. lol
Anyway, this is one of my favorite scenes from the movie. Thanks for the upload! ^.^
Vera Ellen was overall a very talented and versatile Ballet dancer in which she incorporated pirouetting, gymnastic movements and accomplished somersaults. She was Cyd Charisse, Eleanor Powell and Leslie Caron, all rolled into one. She had a panache like no other. Her films had some of the most ebullient dance sequences ever to be caught on celluloid.
Yes, that was Gene Kelly, along with Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin. This is from the film ON THE TOWN which Kelly directed and starred in.
Vera Ellen was just plain great- a born dancer and athlete. Compare her to the pathetic twerkers of today.
Jim Stark. No need for name calling. She was born with the talent to dance, and with training developed the skill to do it very well. Try using your brain and think before you write insults.
There are scores of dancers today who do the same. It's not difficult to find both talented and trained dancers pretty much everywhere. Maybe Jim Stark's name calling was unnecessary, but the original comment seemed to be without purpose.
No, it's about class. Something missing in today's "performers". Twerking is just a bunch of hoes.
Nothing to do with class. You cherry picked one choreographed piece from a movie to compare it to another cherry picked example today. There were burlesque dancers then and there are the same today. There are plenty of people doing the same and more than Vera did.
Nothing to do with class. You cherry picked one choreographed piece from a movie to compare it to another cherry picked example today. There were burlesque dancers then and there are the same today. There are plenty of dancers today doing the same and better than Vera did. some are just not exposed enough to know it.
what a smile, what a gal.
Now I realize why the producers felt compelled to cast an NYC Ballet Star in the Broadway revival (which I saw BEFORE checking out the movie) and why the beefed up the dancing bits to justify the Ballet casting... great Production!
Jadore
I want her athletic shorts
Hmm,that's a tad vulgar. But she was very cute,so the attraction is understandable,lol.
Me too. I was trying to watch her dance and figure out how her shorts were made at the same time.
Watching this asking myself how her knees never gave out. So much respect
Vera-Ellen had the best legs in Hollywood.
Vera Ellen is the Best!! What a Women!
Wow!
She's spectacular, however my ❤🔥 is towards June❣
この時代のミュージカル映画は本当に良い物が多い。本当に面白いし、最高。
This was John Neumeir's version,so it wasn't quite the Nutcracker that most people were used to seeing. Maria is turning thirteen and it doesn't happen at Christmas,but on her birthday.
Since then I've seen regular Nutcrackers and other story ballets.
This was back in 1984 with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. The fellow I saw playing Fritz was Martin Schlapfer ,who is now the artistic director for the Ballet Am Rhein in Dusseldorf.
(just a bit of trivia).
She can hurdle too! She should be signed up for a Hertz commercial.
Isnt that gene kelly in the beginning.
CelineElla123 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I am 90% certain that this film was choreographed by Gene Kelly & Hermes Pan. -------Note, Vera is most certainly NOT TOO SKINNY HERE! ------------------WolfSky9
I feel like this film was subtly commenting on how women had to be absolutely everything at once. but idk.
Consider the beliefs of the times in which it was made.
YES!! The messaging to society that women have to be EVERYTHING to be even acceptable or average has been going on forever and still is and it never ceases to make me catch my breath in shock (though nothing should be less shocking at this point). If no one "bought it" it wouldn't matter but men expect this of women and women expect it of themselves...and I'm very grateful I do not buy it and live alone in the woods. Lol. Seriously.
Spot on in and not ever complain while doing it all. I am the end of that era. What a pain to constantly act like “you got this”
So glad there's an apparently great revival of the real ON THE TOWN now, on Broadway, with all the magnificent music, songs, dances, etc., that were cut out of the movie. This is nice, but the original is in a different, much better ballpark.
Vera Ellen was a lot skinnier in white Christmas!!!
+SassPrincess Of the Sassy Kingdom She was anorexic to keep her weight down. In fact it caused so much premature aging in upper body that is why she is covered in "White Christmas". I grew up watching her films and in awe by her hummingbird swift toes and teeny waist. Three Little words is my fav. with Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. RIP Vera.
That comment about her having to cover her chest in White Christmas because of premature aging due to anorexia has actually been debunked. There are photos of her at the same time wearing dresses that exposed that area and she looks just fine. Obviously, she was anorexic, just that part about her having to be covered wasn't true.
Jenn Powell I can believe that,(being debunked about the covering up that is). I don't know,(I could figure it out, if I wasn't lazy XD, as to what was going on in her life at that time?), what personal issues she was dealing with? She was married to a Rothchild and I imagine that brings a lot of pressure...but also she lost 2 children and after the second died she withdrew from public life. Can't say I blame her. She seemed like she had a kindly position/personality? Something about her face seemed like she was not a snob,(does this make sense?), at least I hope not because I really like her and was reared on her dancing....even more than Rogers, Miller or Cherise. She doesn't get the recognition for her talent as she should, IMO :) My parents would always mistake her for Mitzi Gaynor....but there is an obvious difference to me. :) Bisous!
Yeah, she looks much healthier here.
Here she is perfect in shape, energy and moves; and emotes blithely, with sprezzatura.
Vera Ellen looks so healthy here.
Lovely legs.
A marvellous dancer and a very pretty Lady. ❤️
Vera-Ellen was so cute and such a terrific dancer. Always enjoyed watching her. There's one person who comes close to her dancing skills: Paula Abdul.
That routine must have been a blast. XD
zowie!!!👏👏👏
I'd like to see Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande attempt to recreate this video. This Vera-Ellen is incredible. One of the cutest ever!
It wouldn't work. No one can dance like Vera-Ellen. No one ever could.
they aren’t dancers so why would they? use your head.
What a delight she was! And such a tiny waist! :)
Yeah, but kind of too bad, after all. Sad.
Gene Kelly was beautiful.
thanks lol - saw a lot of arguments about it. i'm not saying for sure that she was anorexic, and even if she was doesn't make her a terrible person, but a lot of ppl seemed to think that's what i meant. whether she had an eating disorder or not, she was DEFINITELY thinner in White Christmas, and I personally didn't think she looked healthy. Anywho, thanks for the support :) lol
❤😊❤
quickly narrator say something else before she defeats all the boys that are expected to go to war
Well, I'm convinced. I wouldn't mind a turn at that turnstile!
"Men 'were' in control in the culture? Wow, you have been living under a rock."
"Degree" was the operative word in the sentence you got that from, and of course you know that, but when you have nothing to argue with, by all means distort the other one's statements.
dralockhart, compare the women who appear as models in men's magazines with those that appear in the women's magazines, and come back and tell us again that it is men who pressure women to be thin. Men are not attracted to overly thin women. Overly thin women grace the pages of women's style and fashion magazines, and these images are largely promoted by other women.
Does anyone else think she looks a little like ellen pompeo? Meridith from Grey's Anatomy?
look up her "So in Love" number from Wonder Man and then tell me she's not a good dancer.
Órale.
🙂
*I Never Knew How to( PICK UP a-S-L-U-T ) as a ReSuLt I Never got Married!*
Lol. When you are good at most things, you don't have to be perfect at anything.
Its got the Tom and Jerry Vibe to it
She looked so great in this movie......
Whoever told her she was too fat and caused her anorexic future should have been stoned!!
Studio heads most likely :(
She did not have anorexia. This is a retro-rumor.
she definitely lost weight since this movie which was very early in her career.she was significantly skinnier in white christmas, so if she wasn't anorexic, she was definitely severely underweight.
Houston She’s still the youngest Radio City Rockette (age 16 in 1937) and made her Broadway debut in 1939. “A Connecticut Yankee” in 1943 got her a contract from Sam Goldwyn. Sang passably on stage but was always dubbed in film. Though there is a youtube reunion of her with her “By Jupiter” fellow player, Ray Bolger where she sings on his show. Definitely lost weight in the 1950’s. Fred Astaire in his auto bio commented that she was always pushing in on her cheeks. Biggest tragedy was her losing her only daughter to SIDS at 3 months in 1963. She withdrew from public life and died in 1981 at 60
@@esmeephillips5888 You know this? How? I would say the better explanation, since anorexia was unknown at the time, is that Vera-Ellen abused diet pills much like Judy Garland, hence the dramatic weight loss (plus tight corseting in some costumes) in this film and her later films. Diet pills would cause dramatic weight loss over a shorter period of time than anorexia would. Films during this era were shot over a period of weeks rather than months or a couple of years.
So good to see Vera-Ellen's legs looking well muscled and beautiful. They became so thin later.
That was my thought too. She was so thin in White Christmas!
Wonderful extension and amazing in here, she can do ballet and act with funny expressions, she can do it all.
Miss Turnstiles, Tammie.
She was very effective in the ballet sequence without being a Balanchine pinhead. Really, just lovely.
God bless Vera-Ellen in her best years the Best Hollywood dancer the world has ever seen !!!!! Thank you Vera
One of the best dancers ever. She was great.
Unfortunately she was underrated then and I think more appreciated now. (but who knows - what goes on behind the doors back then - maybe she just said NO!)
This is MeToo bullshit. She was never under rated. She was a top dancing star back then. It's just that now, for some unknown reason, she's become interesting to people who have no idea who she was or what she did.
Vera-Ellen is really an amazing dancer!
The only person who comes close is Paula Abdul. She has a lot of similarities with Vera-Ellen in her dancing.
1:45 If a man don’t propose to me like that I don’t want it
Didn’t know I needed to see Vera Ellen beat a bunch of men up in white shorts via dance sequence today but i definitely did