"The Sheik of Araby" from the movie "Tin Pan Alley" - Alice Faye, Betty Grable & Nicholas Brothers
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- "The Sheik of Araby" from the movie "Tin Pan Alley" with Alice Faye, Betty Grable, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Billy Gilbert, and the Nicholas Brothers. It's rare to Alice Faye and Betty Grable kicking their heels in black and white when so much of their musical work at 20th Century Fox was in technicolor. Rarer still is to see them nearly nude with their butt cracks showing. The Nicholas Brothers steal the show with their lightning as usual, with skimpy Amazonian outfits that reveal little body fat. This number was later covered by swing master Dick Jurgens with a fabuoso over-the-top semi-parody which I hope to make available on CZcams in the near future. Enjoy! Another thing you will enjoy is the new eBook by Brian S. Alexander "Waiting for the Real World to Catch Up," now available for the Kindle ,Nook, iPad, and more! Winner of the 2013 Pursis Prize!
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The Nicholas Brothers are amazing.
The Nicholas brothers. Oozing with talent. ❤❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
One of the best! Loved the Nicholas Brothers...amazing!!
It's amazing how many don't appreciate this "art" for its greatness. The great Hollywood musicals of the 1930s and 1940s... We'll never see the likes of this again. We are fortunate indeed that all this talent has been preserved on film.
The Nicholas brothers were AWESOME!!!!!!!
From a time when art trumped - gotta love excess to revel in this grande splendour and riotous fun. Nostalgia warranted!
An incomparable and incontournable jewell !!!! Thanks so much for this incrediblle historical outstanding archive EVER VERSION ! Merci beaucoup from Paris France. Emmanuel
Who would have guessed that Billy Gilbert was a song-and-dance man in addition to being a great comedian?
i adore all Alice Faye movies :-) the Queen of Hollywood Musicals
I couldn't agree more .
Folks if you like dance and Hollywood , american culture, the Nicholas brothers (who inspired all Amerlcan dancers) this is a treat. Should be watched every time you wan to remember what life is all about. Basically the meaning of life.
Absolute perfection!
The old TV show "That's Hollywood" claimed that this scene was the favorite musical number of GIs during WW II. I don't doubt that for a minute.
I've seen this film and sequence so many times never tire of it how could I, Alice has the smile that lights up the screen, Betty has the million dollar legs, Billy Gilbert is a gem in this routine and the fabulous Nicholas Brothers, who could ask for anything more :)
+Phil Binstead
I agree - isn't this just wonderful! x
+Chandrabali Sattir One thing that added so much to those production numbers at Fox was the Studio Orchestra and Chorus they never get a mention always taken for granted. Just listen to that orchestra swing it had a fabulous sound all its own and the chorus (always refered to as 'The Heavenly Choir') added an embelishment that completed the Fox 'sound'. The chorus always was heard from nowhere as was the orchestra but as Alice says in The Gangs All Here " Where's Your Imagination". Alexanders Ragtime Band, The Sonia Henie musicals, Coney Island, Pin Up Girl etc all feature the 20th Century Fox Orchestra and Chorus the whole package, the stars, the songs, the music all a legacy from a time when they didn't swear and curse etc to entertain, and that's entertainment with a capitol T :)
Wonderfully put Phil!
MGM may have had the class but FOX had the sass and the razzmatazz. I defy anyone of any age to sit still when music this good starts to play. The girls were stunning, the production was top notch, in other words POW! x
+Chandrabali Sattir I'll take a double helping of sass and razzamatazz every time and so here ends this meeting of the 20th Century Fox mutual admiration society :)
I courtsey to and then salute Betty, Alice, & the divine Carmen Miranda.x
Sure Alice Faye Betty grable Nicholas brothers billy Gilbert were great in this but so we're those pretty young women in the background too I certainly noticed them
I can, of course, look it up, but it would have been nice to have posted the year of this great scene. I looked it up; 1940, over 80 years ago!
@3:35 the Nicholas Brothers - what a leap!
“So that is why my heart belongs - my heart belongs to Baghdad Daddy!”
recently liquidated I understand
Great clip, thanks for uploading
when the absurd becomes wonderful , so much fun !
Fabulous legends the likes of never will be seen again
Gotta love the tap slippers.
Betty had a very talented caboose!
wow isn't this a window into the past ,, thanks mate
Makes me long for the days passed in Africa watching my neighbors tap dance and play xylophones.................but I really miss the scat......
Really nice-looking, talented, half-dressed guys. If only all those women weren't getting in the
way lol.
Billy Gilbert
The Nicholas Brothers! Surely they should be mentioned in the list in the title of this video.
Hum Ding Thanks to you I made their name fit - It's something I should have done a long time ago Thanks, Brian Alexander
The Nicholas Brothers are always good value but the show was stolen, nay hijacked at 6.29 when Alice Faye decides to unleash her killer smile.
In the cold and brutal world of 2015 the visual splendour of Faye reminds one of the glorious masterpieces that Nature only too rarely conjures up.
Very well said!
James Dimasi Thanks. I was wondering who the two incredible hoofers were.
Alice had a super rack.
Actually, when this movie dropped, people asked theater's to rewind the tapes so they could see the Nicholas Brothers so, in reality Alice Fey didn't hijack anything.
Very enjoyable.
Those two male dancers sure have some huge 'packages'!
For benefit of others that might have expected this information to be provided, this film is from 1940.
I'm surprised that the censors approved this number considering the costumes that Alice Faye and Betty Grable wore.
According to imdb, what we are seeing here was actually a reshoot, because what was originally filmed for this sequence didn't get past the censors due to the harem girls' outfits being deemed too revealing.
I heard that if it wasn't for the Sheik played by Billy Gilbert, I think. the censors wold have banned it
Oh man!
I wish i had some grapes at least...
You need only a turban... ;)))
BjavaBbotBme There goes the top-hat....here comes the towel!
RadioInuit Good morning Jorgelito:)
Wishing you a fabulous weekend! ;D
FANTABBY~
the dancer in the beginning is a treat to the eye, so talented, wish I could have her name!
the Nicholas brothers? no comments to add! they get better and better each time i watch a new clip of their dancing. the ladies around had to be impressed by what they were witnessing; i sure would break character on the stage and open my mouth so wide my jaw would hit the floor😭 these brothers are the best dancers in all Hollywood's history. period. don't come with fred astaire bullshit to me.
they're absolutely dashing and wonderful in this peculiar costume too, although i do prefer the suit they most often wore lmfao. more charming and less offensive. also, quite the comedians in here! the faces they made are just priceless!
Alice Faye lits the screen, as always. even bette page can't quite get up her charms, although she still has a very pleasing voice and tbh dances way better than al.
ngl these skimpy outifts shocked me, given tin pan alley is a 1940 picture💀 i guess they had to argue with some people to get this movie up.
well, it sure is one of my favorites. can't get enough of alice+johnny romantic duo, they were made (cinematically) for each other!
And you would have been out on your ear. Imagine an entire shot ruined because some dress extra couldn't get their shit together. You know how much time, money and energy goes into filming a complex musical number like this? You'd never work again.
Leon Redbone does it best
Was this the reshot sequence when the studios objected to the costumes? Or is this the original?
Wanting to watch the movie
Who is the girl that does the puckish dancing intro to this memorable number? She's very talented and quite appealing.
I was thinking the same thing! Because of beautiful movement quality and her facial features it makes me think it is a young Maria Tallcheif, or maybe her sister Marjorie. I wish I had a way to know for certain.
There's someone called Princess Vanessa Ammon listed as a "specialty" alongside the Nicholas Brothers ?
www.imdb.com/title/tt0033167/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
And today's society claims no freedom of expression like this was allowed....
This makes me remember a movie from the 1950s, set during World War II, where a bunch of military guys are watching this film and the projector slows down and then stops at about 4:30, just after Alice and Betty start singing. These leads to a lot of angry catcalls. Of course I can’t remember what movie this is.
Might be 'Dive Bomber' or 'Wing and a Prayer', which both featured soldiers watching Tin Pan Alley?
@@tropicalcatdetectiveNow I'm wondering if the scene I remember was on a ship - ?
how on earth did this get past the censors?
It looks to me like their bras are connected to their panties by panels of sheer flesh-colored material, so their midriffs are not actually exposed. Also, there appears to be a thin dark seam running up their backsides, which also are not actually exposed. _In other words, it's a trick to make them look less dressed than they really are._
It didn't get past the censors. Fox had to reshoot parts of this number because the costumes were judged to be too revealing.
wow the Ottoman Empire was crazy
i am glad rock n roll came along , imagine being stuck with this stuff ya whole life
idk i dig these musical numbers way more than rock
Is this the guy who owns Manchester City?
I’m offensive and I find this Arabic
I wonder why they put Alice Faye in a HUGE bra... But Betty Grable in a really skimpy brief one? Perhaps Alice Faye was larger endowed or something?
LMAO! Well, think about it, David. Why would Faye need a larger bra? LOL It wasn't due to the size of her feet.
Because Alice Faye was very BUSTY!!!
Alice Faye was very self-conscious about her chest yet many of her outfits emphasized that particular area.
Strange really. The sheik of Araby and a Balinese dancer in vaguely middle eastern setting singing a big band band tune. Very post modern. I’m here because of THE BEATLES
Alice Fay ...compared to Betty Grable looked like she was wearing an
over the shoulder boulder holder bra!!
That is one very picky Sultan. Flicking his head, at such a beauty... Nvm the Sultan, I´d rather have the Sun*Maid.... Dribble dribble....
COME ON!!! That is comedy GOLD, right there!!!
Thailand ,India and Middle East in the same country,only americans do this.
Das passt nun gar nicht mehr zu dem Afghanischen Desaster!
if we choose to ignore.
This would be funnier with Carmen Miranda
At the beginning i thought he was gay!
hardly Egyptian...but Thai.
I see after that black women did her dance after she introduced the Nicholas brothers she disappeared from the scene completely
The costume & dance doesn’t look Arabian AT ALL. Let alone the Tap dance...
Although funny, this number is full of cliches about "arabia" an arabic people. There is very little resemblence with reality, both in clothes, dances, music, behaviour and props, etc. This is Hollywood, in and out, from start to finish!
Grable had way more pizazz than Faye. Alice Faye almost looks "maternal", dancing here. The Indonesian dancer in the beginning was interesting. Was it a biological female?? No reason, just wondering- and anyone familiar with SE Asia may bring up the same question. Anyone remember the 40's cartoon with the dancing female cat that its animation was modeled after this dance routine, complete with the see-through harem outfit? I cannot remember which character the cat was dancing for, or whether the character was having a mirage- but I distinctly remember it, those days when they aired very old cartoons on in the weekend mornings.
Most would agree that Grable was the better dancer, but Faye the better singer. Composers Porter, Berlin and Warren lauded Faye as a singer who guaranteed the success of any song she introduced. The two ladies made a successful team and were friends until Grable's death in 1973. Faye was known for her graciousness and generosity. Grable admired her and often remarked that "Everyone loves Alice."
wtf do u mean "it"? the lady in the beginning is clearly a biological woman. how yall manage to get this racist when watching such a wonderful piece of media baffles me. honestly at this point just shut your mouth permanently before you get arrested for commiting a racial crime and don't get near poc when you get out of your home. weirdo.
This is so racist lol
Well, this didn’t stand the test of time. So offensive in 2022 on sooo many levels!