This is my favorite Christmas movie. This singing and dancing is classic Hollywood at it's finest. The best Christmas movie moment is when general Waverly sees all of his men at the end of the movie come out and he is trying not to cry but he's just so moved. Gets me every time
I just laughed out loud! My mom watched this movie every year since I was little so naturally it’s one of my favorites. A lot of my friends have never seen it and aren’t interested. I’m 29 and know every line of this movie. I just watched it with my 4 year old and she liked it!
@@CearaIvory It's a Christmas movie in the same way that Home Alone and, to an extremely lesser extent, Die Hard, are Christmas movies. Christmastime is the setting, if not the theme.
@@rosscarpenter5604 Minsters shows were, but the production decided not to put them in blackface, which I'm sure we're all grateful for. As a kid I never saw it as any different from the other dance numbers.
I’ve been watching this wonderful movie for 45 years since I was 5 years old and I never get tired of seeing it. Vera Ellen was my absolute favourite female dancer. There was no dance move she couldn’t perform. She was the best ♥️👍
I learned in special features that Rosemary Clooney couldn't dance and Vera Ellen couldn't sing, so Rosemary sang both parts in the Sisters number and camera tricks helped improvise Rosemary's dancing.
Yes she was a good person who never talked bad about anyone and was liked by everybody. She had some misfortune in her life two husbands that were not too swift and a child that died in infancy. She is a class act and always will be.
I know exactly what you mean! Had a crush on her since the 60's and now I'm nearly sixty and still do. Beauty and amazing dance skills...... but, oh my word, those legs.
Wow the amount of trust falls Mandy had at the closing of that performance gave me so many mini heart attacks I had to take a moment and check my pulse afterward! 😥
2:37 The dancer that takes Vera’s hand is George Chakiris. He played Bernardo, leader of the Sharks, in the original West Side Story from 1961. I knew he was onscreen during “Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me,” but I never noticed him in this number.
Great number in this film.....a lot of talented dancers deserve some credit also, but the best of the best are Vera and John.....nothing less than spectacular.
Some of the greatest musical numbers ever put on film were influenced by minstrel shows. This number, Franklin D Roosevelt Jones from Babes on Broadway and Bojangles of Harlem from Swing Time. You people need to grow up and realize these shows were an important part of America's entertainment history. No matter how many people tell you they were politically incorrect. Think for yourselves for once instead of parroting others.
Has anyone else noticed that this number seems to be chopped into three sections? The first seems to be cut at 2:10 and the second 'act' seems to cut off at 4:55 and we suddenly have Bing and Danny and Rosemary back on stage.
Marvelous all around; really amazed at Vera Ellen & see how tiny she is w/o a large dress on:) but that gal on the right toward the end, woo-ee! Lastly, all ya little whiners crying racism can go sit on a BIG tack in da hood, shee-it..
Notice the cut around 4:55? I believe this is where her solo tambourine segment was cut out. In some versions this whole number was cut mostly for that as he was considered overtly suggestive.
The minstrel show wasn’t a black show. And of course they didn’t show the most racist parts of it. But minstrel shows in general we’re just variety shows or vaudeville.
Parts of this have been cut out. There was a moment where Vera is tapping with one toe almost like a telegraph- Or am I thinking of another moment in the movie?
George Primrose, the guy who they mention right before the dancing section was initially a blackface performer who was known for having ditched blackface later in his career, so I think that is how they skirted around that issue. The number is still problematic AF tho.
03:35.......I think the women of the 40's and 60's had much nicer fuller figures than the rail thin Stars of today ! Today doctors would all tell these beautiful women that they are obese, and need to lose 25 lbs.
Did you comment on the wrong video? Because I can hardly watch this number due to how unhealthy and thin Vera Ellen looks. This 100% looks like dead Linda dancing around in Evil Dead 2.
@@FreshSpecimens I wasn't commenting on Vera Ellen. yes, she is way too thin. I was commenting on the other beautiful background dancers with the beautiful legs and beautiful figures, whom all of which, would all be told by todays medical doctors , that they are obese. One need only watch a Marilyn Monroe or a Jane Russell movie to see what was considered sexy back then. I think my point being, a sexy woman back then , was built more like Mae West, or a young Doris Day, and not bag of bones Jennifer Aniston.
As a huge Vera-Ellen fan, and always loving the arrangement of Mandy she danced to here, now I look back and breathe a small sigh of relief they didn't end up going with the usual blackface route and stereotypical racist dialect that defined so many such Hollywood numbers. Yes, it's the most blatantly racist entertainment form in our history, but at least they boiled it down to just great music and dance. Yeah, the watermelon theme is a subtle racist relic, but I actually didn't realize they were watermelon tambourine faces til now. I just thought they were glamour faces with glitter. Kind of looking like John Waters' Divine more than anything else. And I always thought the red and green outfits were because this was a Christmas film. But at least the woke era cringe factor is lower than what you'd expect. Try watching the 'wholesome' Mickey and Judy films....half end on a minstrel show, with Mickey's hammy over the top pickaninny character alone making you want to squirm til your soul bursts. And it's mixed with the most amazing singing and dancing talent that could be assembled. And you just shake your head, wondering how or if you can enjoy the venerable and hate the deplorable, mixed so tight.
JeromeGotGame I used to love this scene as a kid clueless to the connotation with "Minstrel Show" .....they are singing bout it like "the good ol days" when they were blatantly racist in their dry smuck lame slapstick humor
@@aemiliacarolphonetube9749 look up minstrel music and see how it was overall the use of black ppl for entertainment for white ppl. Most minstrel songs degrade African American and the performances were worse with blackface and mockery,. This performance wants it back because how good it was back then.
Eh yes and no. Of course something like wouldn’t be allowed today as minstrel numbers pretty always had blackface in them. But they just they didn’t use blackface in this so. But yeah I see what you mean, it’s risky especially for today. But at the same time we can’t ignore what happened in the past, it happened, and we gotta learn from it. Please someone correct me if I’m wrong on any of this information I would hate to have any wrong information on a subject as sensitive as this
@@rhondabitler2461 minstrel shows are known for many being racist shows with a lot of blackface and performances showing stereotypes of blacks with some of the songs in this piece having a history being in those shows so the lines talking about missing minstrel shows can be not very good knowing this There are multiple videos and articles on it you can search online
Why oh why did they have to do a whitewashed version of a minstrel show? There are obvious references to the reacist parts of the show including the song "Mammy" and the watermelon colored outfits on the men and red sequin dresses on the woman as a racist stereotype of blacks eating watermelon. If you are going to do a minstrel show, then do a minstrel show blackface and all. Offensive yes, but this whitewashed version is more offensive. Think about it.
Ha! Watermelon never entered my mind. I just took the red and green as "Christmas colors." Meanwhile, all the well-tanned, curly-haired, Italian-looking guys seemed quite the casting coincidence. (I wonder if that "look" was specified in the script for the "minstrel show" scene.) It's sick and sad how fifty years of Hollywood kept tipping its hat to the fifty years of blackface "minstrelsy" entertainment that came before vaudeville and movies, without admitting that it was being nostalgic about overt racism. Fortunately, this weird whitewashed number was about the last gasp of that bit of "nostalgia" in Hollywood productions, although British (!) TV kept its "Black and White Minstrel Show" going through most of the 1970s.
This is my favorite Christmas movie. This singing and dancing is classic Hollywood at it's finest. The best Christmas movie moment is when general Waverly sees all of his men at the end of the movie come out and he is trying not to cry but he's just so moved. Gets me every time
It's not Christmas 'til I see Vera-Ellen come out of the floor!!!
I just laughed out loud! My mom watched this movie every year since I was little so naturally it’s one of my favorites. A lot of my friends have never seen it and aren’t interested. I’m 29 and know every line of this movie. I just watched it with my 4 year old and she liked it!
This movie isn’t a Christmas movie either. The only Christmas song is white Christmas.
@Nathan Freundl facts
@@CearaIvory It's a Christmas movie in the same way that Home Alone and, to an extremely lesser extent, Die Hard, are Christmas movies. Christmastime is the setting, if not the theme.
She so wife goals 💘 & i so better get some " white Christmas " like her this year 🐰 i swear 🎄 🎅
One of my favorite Christmas movies! Love the costumes for this movie!!!
Angela Corso this is racist bullshit but I wouldn’t expect racist morons to see that
@@rosscarpenter5604 Minsters shows were, but the production decided not to put them in blackface, which I'm sure we're all grateful for. As a kid I never saw it as any different from the other dance numbers.
I have a weird crush on Danny Kaye. I have no idea why lol one of my absolute favorite movies of all time, and my favorite scene in the movie.
Why would you wonder why? Girls have always loved humor. And he's very talented all around.
He was handsome too!
I love tall kinda nerdy guys. Also he’s a ginger. So I understand the appeal.
Danny and Vera really held this movie together
Absolutely!!!! ❤
I love Danny Kaye. You can tell just by looking at him that even off screen he loved to smile, and joke around 🥰
I’ve been watching this wonderful movie for 45 years since I was 5 years old and I never get tired of seeing it. Vera Ellen was my absolute favourite female dancer. There was no dance move she couldn’t perform. She was the best ♥️👍
I learned in special features that Rosemary Clooney couldn't dance and Vera Ellen couldn't sing, so Rosemary sang both parts in the Sisters number and camera tricks helped improvise Rosemary's dancing.
I first saw this movie as a child, and I've had a crush on Vera Ellen ever since.
Yes she was a good person who never talked bad about anyone and was liked by everybody. She had some misfortune in her life two husbands that were not too swift and a child that died in infancy. She is a class act and always will be.
I know exactly what you mean! Had a crush on her since the 60's and now I'm nearly sixty and still do. Beauty and amazing dance skills...... but, oh my word, those legs.
Vera Ellen and her dance partner (idk his name) were amazing throughout the movie 😍
Indeed
John brascia i believe
@@MalloryNewcomb correct
Wow the amount of trust falls Mandy had at the closing of that performance gave me so many mini heart attacks I had to take a moment and check my pulse afterward! 😥
2:37 The dancer that takes Vera’s hand is George Chakiris. He played Bernardo, leader of the Sharks, in the original West Side Story from 1961. I knew he was onscreen during “Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me,” but I never noticed him in this number.
Great number in this film.....a lot of talented dancers deserve some credit also, but the best of the best are Vera and John.....nothing less than spectacular.
John M what type of dancing is this call?
JuJu: My best guess is a mixture of swing, acrobatic and some foxtrot steps with a lot of tempo changes throughout.
NO ONE could dance like Vera Ellen!!! ❤
Vera Ellen defines the word sassy. Look at her moves and facial expression from 4:25 - 4:28
She knew she was the bomb!
I still like that little wink at 3:22. I couldn't say no to that face. 😂
*WHAT* facial expressions? All I saw was an amazingly gorgeous pair of legs! 😜
Great Actress and Actors
She is stunning!
The best Christmas movie ever made! 😍🎄
Amazing dancers and movie❤
One of my favorite acts of the movie I 😍
Every song in this movie is so obviously padding, but it's GOOD padding.
My parents watched this movie all the time through December when I was growing up. I'm 39 now. Why am I interested in this suddenly??
The foot work is amazing
Oh my gosh, I JUST realized that she's wearing bangles, not long gloves
Vera-Ellen is perfection💝💝💝
RIP Bing Crosby (1907-1977)
4:27-4:55 C'mon Vera - do those legs ever quit?!?
Did everyone know that Rosemary Clooney is George Clooney's Aunt...? Isn't that cool???
pegleg09able She was also Debbie Boone's mother-in-law.
pegleg09able Wow
SJ Cohen wow.
Just wow
And in my opinion, George looks like a spittin' image of Rosemary. Wow.
The outfits 😍😍😍
Happy Early 70th Merriest Anniversary White Christmas! (1954-2024)
Some of the greatest musical numbers ever put on film were influenced by minstrel shows. This number, Franklin D Roosevelt Jones from Babes on Broadway and Bojangles of Harlem from Swing Time. You people need to grow up and realize these shows were an important part of America's entertainment history. No matter how many people tell you they were politically incorrect. Think for yourselves for once instead of parroting others.
Has anyone else noticed that this number seems to be chopped into three sections? The first seems to be cut at 2:10 and the second 'act' seems to cut off at 4:55 and we suddenly have Bing and Danny and Rosemary back on stage.
You figured that out all by yourself? 🙄
This song, Choreography, and I wish I was back in the Army appeal to my ADHD sensibilities so splendidly
Thank you for the lead-in too!
Отличное шоу. Лучшее позади.
She was so pretty, what a pair of legs! And love her shoes!
DD- I think those are the same shoes she wore in the "Best things happen while you're dancing" number.
geniales los dos sobretodo dany kaye, un artista completo en todo sentido
Marvelous all around; really amazed at Vera Ellen & see how tiny she is w/o a large dress on:) but that gal on the right toward the end, woo-ee!
Lastly, all ya little whiners crying racism can go sit on a BIG tack in da hood, shee-it..
Vera Ellen by far the best lookin legs...EVER!!!
I agree, she is a superb dancer a total professional.
5:32, right hand side.... The lady's dress rode up and she isn't wearing panties. 😂😂😂😂
I-fuckin-conic!
unbelievable
They all made this special.
Notice the cut around 4:55? I believe this is where her solo tambourine segment was cut out. In some versions this whole number was cut mostly for that as he was considered overtly suggestive.
I mean when you have a wife as a dance partner and she looks stunning in that outfit, I can’t really say I blame him. 😅
I like to think I can dance as well as Vera-Ellen could. Unfortunately, I have no rhythm or dancing talent, but one could dream.
2:26 "...And it sure will be dandy!"
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Hello Hens
This is a guilty pleasure of mine. They literally whitewashed the minstrel show. Watch for George Chakiris who's one of the dancers in Mandy.
The minstrel show wasn’t a black show. And of course they didn’t show the most racist parts of it. But minstrel shows in general we’re just variety shows or vaudeville.
The very least they could have done was cover the vulva on the dancer in red on the right side nearest the name characters (~5:58-5:39)
👍👍🤩😍😘💖💕💕💕💕👌
Parts of this have been cut out. There was a moment where Vera is tapping with one toe almost like a telegraph- Or am I thinking of another moment in the movie?
You're thinking of another part in the movie. It's where Daniel Kaye sings,
🎶The theater
The theater
What's happening to
The theater?🎶
@@geoffwilliams4478 Yes- "Choreography". Thank you.
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I just noticed that she loses an earring at the end.
how have i always missed that! can't unsee now... Nice catch! :D
I adore this number from start to finish, but I swear there's something sinister about those red tambourines...
best !!!
Era demasiado, delgadita y como tenía tanta energía...
❤️❤️❤️😉
At least they didn't use blackface in this scene, which was the case with the Abe Lincoln's Birthday number from Holiday Inn.
George Primrose, the guy who they mention right before the dancing section was initially a blackface performer who was known for having ditched blackface later in his career, so I think that is how they skirted around that issue. The number is still problematic AF tho.
Cancel it all! Including the chicken crossing the road jokes... racist!
She was a tad thinner than I like my women but even still she had curves. Incredibly beautiful woman and outstanding dancer.
She seemed to lose weight as she got older sadly, she looks even better in her earlier movies
I am almost 16 why am I watching this?
Did you get to grow up watching this movie for Christmas?
@@jackoff1826 no but I did watch Charlie brown Christmas and Grinch 1966
You know what's good. That's why.
Who cares how old you are? Just enjoy ❤
@soulserenade.kcn1992 ironic because I turn 20 today.
Having the dog's teeth pulled out?
Awful and inhumane.
Killing the dog?
Perfectly fine.
When people were less sensitive...so fewer allergic reactions to life.
She meant it was a bad joke
03:35.......I think the women of the 40's and 60's had much nicer fuller figures than the rail thin Stars of today ! Today doctors would all tell these beautiful women that they are obese, and need to lose 25 lbs.
Did you comment on the wrong video? Because I can hardly watch this number due to how unhealthy and thin Vera Ellen looks. This 100% looks like dead Linda dancing around in Evil Dead 2.
@@FreshSpecimens I wasn't commenting on Vera Ellen. yes, she is way too thin. I was commenting on the other beautiful background dancers with the beautiful legs and beautiful figures, whom all of which, would all be told by todays medical doctors , that they are obese. One need only watch a Marilyn Monroe or a Jane Russell movie to see what was considered sexy back then. I think my point being, a sexy woman back then , was built more like Mae West, or a young Doris Day, and not bag of bones Jennifer Aniston.
I adore this movie, but the continuity in this scene is a joke.
Me too I just bought the dvd last year I watch it all year long.
As a huge Vera-Ellen fan, and always loving the arrangement of Mandy she danced to here, now I look back and breathe a small sigh of relief they didn't end up going with the usual blackface route and stereotypical racist dialect that defined so many such Hollywood numbers. Yes, it's the most blatantly racist entertainment form in our history, but at least they boiled it down to just great music and dance. Yeah, the watermelon theme is a subtle racist relic, but I actually didn't realize they were watermelon tambourine faces til now. I just thought they were glamour faces with glitter. Kind of looking like John Waters' Divine more than anything else. And I always thought the red and green outfits were because this was a Christmas film. But at least the woke era cringe factor is lower than what you'd expect. Try watching the 'wholesome' Mickey and Judy films....half end on a minstrel show, with Mickey's hammy over the top pickaninny character alone making you want to squirm til your soul bursts. And it's mixed with the most amazing singing and dancing talent that could be assembled. And you just shake your head, wondering how or if you can enjoy the venerable and hate the deplorable, mixed so tight.
I never thought it was a watermelon theme. I always thought it was red and green because this is a Christmas movie.
Stop making crap up that doesn’t exist. It’s red and green for Christmas
Also, Georgie Primrose was the leader of one of the first minstrel troupes to reduce and later do away with blackface altogether. So... partial win?
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Not tryna sound stupid, but WHY do women have to wear such revealing clothes like this?
Have you ever seen women on the streets? This isn’t even half as bad as what I see women wearing today. You’re kidding
Believe me I love Rosie, but I believe this film would be AMAZING with Doris Day in that role.
Nah Vera Ellen KILLED it.
Who was Doris Day going to be? I can’t imagine anyone else aside from Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen. They’re iconic in this film. ❤
Some pretty problematic shit here. But I hate to admit, it’s still a great musical number.
Go cry about it on Twitter. Or Reddit
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One of the most racist scenes ever
JeromeGotGame I used to love this scene as a kid clueless to the connotation with "Minstrel Show" .....they are singing bout it like "the good ol days" when they were blatantly racist in their dry smuck lame slapstick humor
JeromeGotGame At least they didn't use blackface in this scene, otherwise it would've been a whole lot worse!
Mia If they used blackface, it would've been more blatantly racist.
🤦♂️ ENOUGH with the racism JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!
@@aemiliacarolphonetube9749 look up minstrel music and see how it was overall the use of black ppl for entertainment for white ppl. Most minstrel songs degrade African American and the performances were worse with blackface and mockery,. This performance wants it back because how good it was back then.
Ummm, this song is about black face, why is no one addressing this?
Can't we just enjoy the movie? It too late now to address this...it isn't that bad.
It's not about blackface. Your childish lizard brain is just getting triggered by the words "minstrel show"
Eh yes and no. Of course something like wouldn’t be allowed today as minstrel numbers pretty always had blackface in them. But they just they didn’t use blackface in this so. But yeah I see what you mean, it’s risky especially for today. But at the same time we can’t ignore what happened in the past, it happened, and we gotta learn from it. Please someone correct me if I’m wrong on any of this information I would hate to have any wrong information on a subject as sensitive as this
How is someone getting married racist and how is Mr Bones racist? Educate me please.
@@rhondabitler2461 minstrel shows are known for many being racist shows with a lot of blackface and performances showing stereotypes of blacks with some of the songs in this piece having a history being in those shows so the lines talking about missing minstrel shows can be not very good knowing this
There are multiple videos and articles on it you can search online
I NEVER REALIZED THIS SCENE WAS RACIST UNTIL I READ THE COMMENTS OMFG MY FAV MUSICAL NUMBER HAS BEEN RUINED VERA WHY
Why? They aren't blackface?
I am so sick of RACISM
@@rhondabitler2461 so are the victims of it.
@@michaellasfetto5810 So are the ones accused of being racists who AREN'T
This scene isn’t racist, you’re just an idiot for believing everything you read
Why oh why did they have to do a whitewashed version of a minstrel show? There are obvious references to the reacist parts of the show including the song "Mammy" and the watermelon colored outfits on the men and red sequin dresses on the woman as a racist stereotype of blacks eating watermelon. If you are going to do a minstrel show, then do a minstrel show blackface and all. Offensive yes, but this whitewashed version is more offensive. Think about it.
Ha! Watermelon never entered my mind. I just took the red and green as "Christmas colors." Meanwhile, all the well-tanned, curly-haired, Italian-looking guys seemed quite the casting coincidence. (I wonder if that "look" was specified in the script for the "minstrel show" scene.) It's sick and sad how fifty years of Hollywood kept tipping its hat to the fifty years of blackface "minstrelsy" entertainment that came before vaudeville and movies, without admitting that it was being nostalgic about overt racism. Fortunately, this weird whitewashed number was about the last gasp of that bit of "nostalgia" in Hollywood productions, although British (!) TV kept its "Black and White Minstrel Show" going through most of the 1970s.
Watermelon never entered my mind and the name is Mandy not Mammy. Good lord!
It’s the 1950s. Do you think they gave a shit? Besides, regardless of the racial history behind it, it’s still a good number.
It’s the 1950s dude. You can’t compare today’s standards to long, long ago.
This number and movie suck
We disagree. ❤
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