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Cyd Charisse Falls and Shows Off Her Legs
In the movie "Meet Me In Las Vegas" Cyd's character plays a spoiled ballerina performing in Las Vegas. She walks out, falls and shows those million dollar legs. Cheesy but effective for the time. Jim Backus plays the hotel manager in this musical from 1956.
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Cyd Charisse "The Gal With The Yallar Shoes" - 1956
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This scene is on a ranch outside of Vegas. Listen for the reference to "7 Brides for 7 Brothers."
Cyd Charisse Dances to Tchaikovsky - 1956
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In the movie, "Meet Me In Las Vegas" Cyd dances to a musical number by Tchaikovsky. Choreographed by Hermes Pan and Eugene Loring.
Cyd Charisse - First Dance in "Meet Me In Las Vegas" 1956
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Cyd Charisse dances her first number from "Meet Me In Las Vegas" in a red leotard and ballet shoes. Cyd's character, Maria Corvier, is rehearsing in the Copa Room at the Sands Casino.
The Four Aces sing "Meet Me In Las Vegas" - 1956
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The Four Aces sing the opening song "Meet Me In Las Vegas." Cyd Charisse, Dan Dailey, Agnes Moorehead, and Jim Backus star in this musical from 1956.
Operation Petticoat Preview
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Operation Petticoat is a 1959 comedic film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, and Dina Merrill. Operation Petticoat follows the adventures and tribulations of the sub's skipper (Grant) and his crew (including Curtis as a deviously mercenary supply officer), as they first try to repair the sub and then reach Australia for the necessary refit. The voyage includes var...
Elle a fait ça toute seule, sans doublure, Nathalie Portman a eu une doublure pour Black Swann et on lui a donné un Oscar : le niveau a baissé
anyway im insane so here Yippie yi, yippie yay Everyone's heading for Nevada today So here's an invitation from the Four Aces Inviting you to come out to the wide open spaces If you wanna have fun in the sun out west Here's what we suggest Meet me in Las Vegas Just take a tip And pack a grip And make the trip today Meet me where the people play Play in the sun Meet me in Las Vegas The price is right And day or night It's quite a sight to see Hate(?) to find you'll soon agree We'd rather be there than anywhere we know They (?)wear brighter stars even the bars(?) are showing Meet me in Las Vegas It's not too far Come as you are You're welcome any way By car or plane By bus or train They're meeting in Las Vegas It's in Nevada Nevada, USA If you can dream The world's a better place by far If you can dream You're anyone you dream you are Castles and kings are everyday things There's no extreme If you can dream And just believe the things you dream
❤
this woulda been perfect in fallout new vegas...
Wow. Wish she had more recognition. She was one of the best.
Сид Чарисс! Брависсимо!!! Светлая память! С уважением, Валерий Романов.
Which male dancer is Robert Fuller?
Most elegant dancer, absolutely gorgeous!
beautiful, simply beautiful
An incredible dancer and a beautiful woman as well.
My favorite scene in the movie, when they were stealing the pig, putting some clothes on it and bringing it to the submarine🤣
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The crowd scene is fun, full of bits of business within the main action's well-co-ordinated company. It reminds me of a Frederick Ashton ensemble piece such as 'Patineurs'. But the level of skill drops in the pas de deux; it reminds one how classical European ballet had become fossilized into a string of lifts, contorted poses and superfluous gyrations. It carries that irritating 'look at me, aren't I limber?' air, inviting applause for technique which does not conceal the over-familiar sleeping beauty/liebestod vibe. How much one prefers Cyd to apply her beauty and virtuosity to Americana such as 'Dancing in the Dark', 'Baby You Knock Me Out' or 'Silk Stockings'. One must salute the camerawork, with its unobtrusively fluid tracks and dollying. It fulfills Fred's stipulation that the lens must not upstage the dancers, while giving one a sense of being inside the routine that one could never get from a flat, unmoving view from the front stalls. The DP was Robert Bronner, a newcomer who shot Cyd in four Scope films between 1956 and 1958 and did her proud.
Amazing, simply amazing!
Fantastic.....great choreography!
I see a very young Robert Fuller (dark blue shirt) in here.
Right after this, Cyd's character falls flat on her face and waxes indignant when told that people will be eating dinner as she dances. As in 'The Band Wagon' before and 'Silk Stockings' after, Charisse is cast as a cultural snob who has to be brought down to earth. It was the studio's way of warning her that a classically trained ballerina must not high-hat her Hollywood colleagues. Cyd, alas, was often haughty and distant on set.
@@suffisance Maybe, but IIRC Cyd's part in the earlier movie was typical of the nothing ones she got when Metro was still trying to figure out how to use her. But what a fascinating character Lennart was. She deserves a biography. In and out of the CPUSA Heaven knows how often, a self-taught screenwriter who began in the mailroom, somehow avoiding the odium of being a fink... then killed at the height of her success with 'Funny Girl'. Not having read the novel, I don't know if the vamp in it was named Isabel, like Ava Gardner, or if that was Ms Lennart's joke.
@@suffisance By all accounts Cyd loosened up a good deal thanks to Tony Martin, who taught her how to work the room in night spots. But on her movie shoots the crew was often told she must always be addressed as 'Miss Charisse'. Maybe it was nerves, since her routines were demanding and between them she had to act. I would cut her some slack for being by 1952 perhaps the most breathtakingly beautiful woman in pictures, but this was a handicap when thesping; you need to be watched and listened to, not just drooled over. MGM had sweated to get acting performances out of her as a sympathetic character in 'The Unfinished Dance' and 'Tension', but the former had too much ballet- and she was never going to prevail against Margaret O'Brien, or Audrey Totter in a Lana Turner sweater. Her late roles in 'Silk Stockings' and 'Party Girl' were her best IMO, bc her reserved nature, with her joie de vivre funneled into dancing, are best exploited. She did not get on with Nick Ray, but he saw it. Oddly enough on the surviving evidence, Cukor- supposedly the maestro at coaxing actresses- could not do that in 'Something's Got to Give', where she is back to woodenness. But he had his work cut out with Marilyn. Dan Dailey is an interesting might-have-been. He was considered for Eleanor Powell's next 'Broadway Melody' after Kelly ran away, and despite his lack of training he ciuld keep up with the other three in the balletic numbers MGM and Freed were promoting as the appeal of tap and revue waned. Dailey and Ellie were warmer personalities than Cyd and Gene.
@@esmeephillips5888 We'll have to agree to disagree about her performances, then. I think she's funny in Something's Got to Give, just drier than the prevailing fashion. I think she was just a certain way: a bit of a throwback and kind of mannered. Two I'd cite are Black Tights--no speaking, just a lot of security as far as what she seemed to have been going for--and Twilight for the gods where once I read the book I was shocked how little credit I'd been giving her for fidelity to the character, that early on . Like Silk Stockings ... it's kind of a dry effect. I don't have inside knowledge of her behavior on set. FWIW both Marge Champion and Nanette Fabray had sympathetic things to say about her aloofness, I felt, with the former making the more basic point that she did portray character *in her dancing.*
donna e ballerina stupenda!
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Swan Lake, but beach volleyball and a happy ending (I know the music isn’t Swan Lake, but the girl in black totally had Odil vibes)
the girl is black is here the evil fairy from Sleeping Beauty, and yeah, she's got definitely Black Swan vibes(;. I would definitely love to see a full length mash up of this with Swan Lake, there should be also a Lilac Fairy for happy ending (just as the Fairy Queen in the Barbie version (; )
Referring to the choreography credit in the description, this piece is obviously all Eugene Loring, not Hermes Pan. Perhaps Pan choreographed other dances in this film. Loring choreographed quite often for Charisse. Pan, basically a self taught dancer, would not have knowledge of ballet technique and choreography to make this piece. The ensemble movement is typical of Loring's character driven choreography that can be seen in so many of his film and concert dances.
Loring was masterly at drawing small vignettes together into an organic whole. IIRC his first, or one of his first, such projects was 'Limehouse Blues' in 'Ziegfeld Follies', the 'pantomime' in which the framing street scene and the gorgeous willow-pattern chinoiserie are all of a piece. Loring frames duets by Astaire and Lucille Bremer, here and in the eerily desynchronized 'Coffee Time' in 'Yolanda and the Thief', which are quite unforgettable.
Cyd прекрасна партнер великолепен
божественные исполнители и хореограф
divina
Her training originally was ballet. She always had my attention!
Soy de Argentina y es maravilloso ver a una gran actriz y ver a una gran bailarina Hoy no existe esto de ver a una figura como ella actriz y bailarina Mis padres me llevaban siempre al cine se puede decir que crecí en el cine y hoy recuerdo tantas películas que he visto Creo que en mi país. Tendrían qué pasar muchas películas de todos los actores y actrices esas sí que eran películas Felicitaciones x este recuerdo tan hermoso
Cyr Charisse had it all ! Pure talent ! ❤❤❤
I wonder what Eugene Loring contributed to this. He is credited only as 'soundtrack' and there is no doubt that Hermes Pan was the big man on the choreographic side, as he had been the year before in 'Hit the Deck'. That too was helmed by Roy Rowland- who knew nothing about musicals and was noted mainly, if at all, for westerns. As the musical lost appeal, the versatile Pan was increasingly hired to rescue projects. However Loring and Rowland did combine fruitfully on that fabulous weirdie, 'The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T', in 1953. 'Meet Me in Las Vegas' is better when Hermes is not being boxed in by ballet- take Cyd's 'Frankie and Johnny', where she is slinky and balletic in apache fashion: slithering all over the shiny floor and toting a gun in an obvious echo of 'Girl Hunt' in 'The Band Wagon'. PS: It seems Loring was indeed the main begetter of this number. IDK if Pan helped out as he did in other passages.
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Like only Cyd can!
What an athlete! She could have been a world-class gymnast, IMO.
Just...wow.
WOW !!!!
Charisse had the natural grace and statuesque figure of a ballerina! Beauty and grace combined!
Beautiful!
Sleeping Beauty - lovely
Cyd Charisse vs Vera Elan in universal dance.... VERY difficult choice as both were exquisite. Would have like to see them perform side to side. Only way to determine the best. Both supreme!!!!!
Прекрасные кадры, спасибо! Дружим, лайк, подписка
Oh, good heavens...
Love her en pointe.
Modern sleeping beauty. Cool!
Imagine a film or a television show doing this now? What has happened to our culture? Anyone can appreciate a thing of beauty like this.
Sad, isn't it? Bernstein and the NY Phil actually did prime time broadcasts. Those days are long gone. :(
Liberals destroyed our culture. And replaced it with a monstrosity we have today.
Gorgeous Syd. Brains, talent, beauty, she had it all.
She was an incredibly talented dancer and exceptionally beautiful woman; however, classical ballet as well as the body of a classically trained ballerina have changed a lot in the last sixty years. Today this extraordinary dancer would probably have to lose about ten kilos, for a start, at least in Russia.
No need ...such an athletic person
Agree. Modern ballerinas must be anorexic. Not have a female figure but stay as children.
Carabosse's minions are the best part!
Cyd Charisse was not your typical tap dancer, she seemed only to prefer ballet type dancing, and boy did she do it well, an outstanding ballet dancer she was, I love watching her prowess, she was pure perfection!!!
she danced ALL genre! Jazz, Mexican, Scottish, etc.
Fortunately today we have Diana Vishneva and Natalia Osipova- marvelous contemporary Russian prima ballerinas who embody music and dance all by herselves. Oh boy oh boy. However, I love Cyd as well... very much so... and her epic dance numbers along with Gene Kelly in Singing in the rain particularly. Cheerio ! Aloha !
What a beautiful scene.