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.
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Wow. Wish she had more recognition. She was one of the best.
Charisse had the natural grace and statuesque figure of a ballerina! Beauty and grace combined!
Gorgeous Syd. Brains, talent, beauty, she had it all.
I've just recently discovered Cyd Charisse. I had heard her name before, but I didn't realize what a great talent she was. R.I.P.
I blown away, Cyd was just an incredible dancer and so elegent
Lovely. Ballet is the basis for all her beautiful lines in her other numbers (oh and those legs don't hurt either!). She was very talented.
An incredible dancer and a beautiful woman as well.
Very nice classic ballet dance by Cyd!
Oh! What a beautiful lady !!!! Dancing on a cloud.
Cyd Charisse you were a Goddess! Vibrant, superb, splendid perfect! If only I could have met you... i would have told you all this and much more!
What a classicist, No wonder she partnered GK so well
Cyd, You were one of a kind and Tony Martin was the luckiest man on earth.
Amazing, simply amazing!
Cyd was amazing and pretty!
Прекрасные кадры, спасибо! Дружим, лайк, подписка
Just...wow.
amazing...!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is Cyd in classical style, very different from her style in most of her films.
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WOW !!!!
Прелесть! Красавица!!!
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!!!!!
donna e ballerina stupenda!
Ela é realmente maravilhosa, parece que nasceu com a sapatilha de ballet. Não consigo tirar os olhos dos pés dela.
True !!!! I think...….
What an athlete! She could have been a world-class gymnast, IMO.
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.
they're called pointe shoes @EdgeServer fyi)
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.*
las vegas money grows on trees
Th music is of Mendelssohn, right?
Back then leotards were made of 100% nylon and they were uncomfortable and itchy.