Top 10 Solo Female Dance Scenes in Classic Hollywood Movies
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- When it comes to dance, you can't top classic Hollywood. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most amazing dances given by a group of ladies who don’t need anyone but themselves. Our countdown includes "Sweet Charity," "Lady Be Good," "Ship Ahoy," and more! If we missed any of YOUR favorite solo dances, let us know in the comments below!
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I’m really happy to see Vera-Ellen getting her overdue recognition. She was so talented and deserves to be among the ranks of Ann Miller and Ginger Rogers.
I have always felt that Vera Ellen may be the most underrated dancer in movie history.
Concordo. Vera Ellen está no mesmo nível de uma Ann Miller ou Ginger Rogers. Outra substimada foi Rita Hayworth
Yyaaasss!! Have you read her biography that's available??
@@mervyngreene6687 I would agree!!
Amazing dancer!
I think the number in White Christmas where Vera Ellen toe taps on a camera close-up is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.
She's marvelous in White Christmas - "Abraham", the rehearsal number, is one of my all time favourites.
Agree. All her numbers in White Christmas are awesome. The close-up of her one foot tapping is perfection.
I absolutely agree. That moment has stayed with me over 40 years since the very first time I saw it. An amazing "feet", ha! Adore her.
Rita Hayworth performing..”put the blame on Mame” is classic Hollywood at it’s best!!!!
She's breathtaking in that iconic scene, but for dancing prowess, the other number she performs, "Amado Mio" is amazing. The control she demonstrates reflects a lifetime dedicated to dance. In a heavy, beaded gown and high heels, her spins are fast and her leaps are flawless.
I just love the fashions the ladies wears! Vintage and CLASSIC Divas!!❤
Cyd Charisse will always be my favourite. She was solid in every moves she made.
Anne Miller had some serious talkent. I've never seen anyone move their feet so fast. I'm surprised a fire didn't start.
Wow, Eleanor Powell gives me goosebumps in Fascinating Rythym 😱❤️😍👌💐🎇
Thank you for including the incredible talents of Josephine Baker.
Just IMAGINE what she would have become if she had attained formal classes in classical ballett! A one-of-a-kind talent!
Total legend!❤❤❤
All of these ladies of Classic Hollywood are wonderful. But only 2 were the ones who set men's hearts racing : Rita Hayworth & Cyd Charisse. That explains why both are in MY All-Time Top 10 most beautiful ladies of the screen from 1927 to 1960. As a film lover all of my life, that both were also fantastic, versatile dancers, is just so obvious through the body of their film careers. ----- ------MJL, 76 y/o
I knew that Shake the Blues Away would be #1. My mother and I love Easter Parade.
Those women must had been exhausted doing their dance numbers, but they did it.
I’m so grateful that you included Eleanor Powell. She did not get the credit that she deserved and there are so many people who’ve never heard of her. What an incredible dancer.
Ann Miller's performance in Easter Parade was simply amazing, She was taller than Fred Astaire and danced in flats, She also had severely pinched nerves in her back and had to wear a back brace during all her dance scenes.
Ann Miller is a Dancing QUEEN! Got mention 3 times in this video? Such an honor she's given!
PS: My family nickname her "Miss Machine Gun Feet". :)
She could do over 100 taps in one minute. She definitely had machine gun feet 😭🤣🫣
@@Jess-my1go 600 pm.
I love all of these older movies. Especially On the Town. Thank you for sharing this video.
I was lucky enough to see Ann Miller in Sugar Babies on Broadway in the 80’s. Even older- when I saw her in person , l “ got it”. Incredible talent
I believe Cyd Charisse had the most beautiful legs of any dancer - ever. She couldn't strike an ungainly pose if she tried. She was never my favorite dancer, but every time I see her move, I'm in awe.
Idk why, but I was always somewhat put off by her ankles? Like even as a young teen, I’d sit and watch classic movies all night, and I just never really found the same fascination for her that others did. When I think of classic film “Perfect” legs, Vera Allen is always the first thing that pops into my mind, probably bc of the number “mandy” from “White Christmas”
She's way up there for me.
My top two pairs of legs, despite completely different aesthetics. Cyd for elegance; Vera for joyful energy.
Only the legs?
She’s one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood History
When she takes the coat and reveals that red outfit and dances with astaire...... omg Cyd!
I’m meeting Leslie Caron this Sunday. So excited.
Eleanor Powell was so incredibly athletic she could do stuff with an ease that had my jaw dropping.
Barbara Hancock's dance in the rain in Finian's Rainbow (1969) deserves appreciation.
Yes yes yes. Love that dance
YES! That dance, and that movie in general, is EXTREMELY underrated! One of the best of the 60's for sure!
I love the dance sequences Vera Ellen did in White Christmas. Thx&see ya😁
Yeah, Vera Ellen was definitely underrated
I always love these classic Hollywood videos ^^
Same for the videos on dance sequences!
Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse perform a great dance called “Who’s got the pain?”
Ann Miller is absolutely the Queen! ❤️💃❤
Eleanor Powell is the most awesome dancer ever filmed. Not only bc of her range of skills and styles, from buck to ballet. Not only bc of her athleticism and technical perfection. Not only bc of the blend of power, control, mischievous humor and warmth that she conveyed. Not only bc of her unstrident but constant feminism, keeping men in their place without humiliating them- from Louis B Mayer to chorus boys.
She had more say over her routines- music, sets, costumes and cutting as well as choreography- than anyone else. She never did a dud number, and always made profits for MGM.
But finally what elevates Powell above other star dancers is what one historian of the musical called her 'radiance of joy'. She felt she was obliged to use her gifts to the limit to diffuse her gladness at being alive. She was the most life-enhancing performer of any kind in movies: an inexhaustible fount of inspiration and good cheer.
I appreciate and enjoy all the ladies in this collection, but the others were under orders. They needed help. After 50+ viewings of Ellie's thirty or so numbers, it is clearer than ever that she dwelt on a higher plane. During a fairly short time in Hollywood she achieved what no-one has emulated, and maybe never will.
This video is certainly Classical Hollywood Musicals at its best comprising great dancers like Gwen Verdon, Eleanor Powell, Leslie Caron. Shirley MacLaine was undeniably a gifted comedienne and dramatic actress and her dancing bordered on comedic lines in Sweet Charity. Top honors for this upload goes to Vera Ellen for the sheer diversity and neatness in her movements, never once falling into the trap of risque. She was lithe and languid and light as a feather and for her dancing was like flying through the breeze. Plain incomparable. Cyd Charisse was a renowned ballet dancer and perfected the various nuances and technicalities that went into the repertoire of ballet dancing. Cyd's various dances on celluloid involved gesture of the eyes and hands, expressions of her face, voluptuous poses of the body. She also chose to work within the vocabulary of the classical format. Ann Miller, wins hands down for the best legs in Hollywood. She was tall and possessed dancer's thighs and calves that were the envy of many a star. Her number from Kiss me Kate - "It's too darn hot" raised the testosterone levels of male audiences throughout the world; Ann also burnt up the screen - and a lot more - in "Two tickets to Broadway. Boy, was she a terrific number with very neat footwork to match.
Cyd Cherisse has always been one of my favorites. Maybe because my great-grandmother's name was Cherisse. LOL Vera-Ellen in "One the Town" (one of my favorite movies) is wonderful, both with her dancing and acting. With being a Doris Day look-a-like, I always thought she'd been in a lot more films. Ann Miller just got better with age, absolutely love her. Rita Hayworth I also love since I have a weakness for redheads. Some people tend to forget she's actually Latina.
Eleanor Powell was one of the best tap dancers of ANY time. Maybe the best of ALL time.
I absolutely love her!
She had such confidence and always had that radiant smile on her face!
And her versatility was limitless.
Eleanor Powell was likely the only dancer to intimidate Fred Astaire!
Doris Day in Calamity Jane sings and dances to "The Windy City." Her technique is top tier and the athleticism is mind blowing. On top of that, it's funny and entertaining. She really was a triple threat.
I love Doris Day, her films make me happy, such a talent and funny.❤
I’m at No. 2 just now, and am really hoping that Ann Miller’s Prehistoric Man from On The Town is No. 1. She’s absolutely mesmerising!
Ann Miller is the best dancer ever on screen, in my opinion. Love her now and always will💛
I agree with all your choices in this video-- they are spectacular, each in their own way. I would like to add two solo dance numbers of a non-Broadway nature, both giving me a tingle that males get watching a beautiful woman moving beautifully. The first is the technicolor version of BIRD OF PARADISE, which features an alluring Deborah Paget as a native girl performing a mating ritual dance that, though it starts out as a female ensemble, quickly focuses on Paget and stays there. The second dance scene has Sophia Loren as a Spanish peasant woman dancing a Flemenco with other women but again the camera ends up singling the vivacious heroine out until she is alone in her moves in the latter half of the dance -- at which time I went through puberty when I first saw it on the big screen.
We look forward to seeing more content like this. Keep up the good work.
Always wondered how Miller danced so rigorously without developing muscle tone.
There were hoofers like Eleanor Powell and Ann Miller. Then there were dancers, like Cyd Charisse and Rita Hayworth. For beauty, acting and dancing talent, Rita is my favorite.
Yes to Rita Hayworth.
@@sharibrennan2321 Without doubt, Rita Hayworth was the BEST ACTRESS OF ALL THE FEMALE DANCERS LISTED because she was first an actress and then a dancer.
I agree that Powell and Miller gave us some wonderful performances. However, I wished that they had picked each dancer's BEST performance. It would have given us the opportunity to see more dancers.
Leslie Caron should have been on the list. Not an "honorable mention."
I agree! She definitely should have been on the list! She is my favorite!
Great dancing 🕺💃in movies
I always admire how athletic these dancers were
I was a little disappointed that dancer Juliette Prowse wasn't mentioned. But glad Vera Ellen and Shirley Maclaine were.
Glenna Whiteman....this video was capturing top female dancers in film....was Juliette Prowse a dancer in the film Can-Can?? That is the only film performance I can recall from Juliette Prowse. Juliette Prowse was primarily stage, club and television. ??????????
You missed Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes. I prefer Ballet so Moira Shearer and Cyd Charisse are my favorite dancers. Cyd Charisse in Meet me in Las Vegas is fantastic in that movies dances.
Fantastic. I am stunned.
☝️☝️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Some awesome dance performances 🩰✨
Definitely room for a second and third part! You can't have a list like this and not include Carmen Miranda and some others!
Jon S....Carmen Miranda was not known specifically for her dancing. In her time she was known as THE Brazilian sensation and known for her musical and comedic talents. Many of these female dancers in this video were mainly dancers with other talents thrown in. Ann Miller also had a substantial singing voice, unlike Cyd Charisse and Rita Hayworth.
At 7:15 enters Hollywood's most beautiful, talented, graceful, and athletic dancer...Cyd Charisse! Her performance on "Sombrero" proves that!
So nice,beautiful seing back this dance stepsAmazing👏👏👏👍👍👍💐💐💐♥️♥️♥️🥰🥰🥰
My dad was born in 1928 and I grew on a steady diet of musicals. I have seen every performance on this list and am not shocked that Ann Miller and Cyd Charisse made it more than once. Happy to see Vera-Ellen on the list, while disappoint Rita Hayworth was only an honorable mention.
Thank you for spotlighting the ladies.
You know what they say about Ginger Rogers: She did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in heels
After he'd rehearsed those feet of hers into bleeding in those heels. She was the apprentice and he was the master.
I enjoyed your show very much I happened onto it by accident unfortunately I wish they had been a little longer there were so many wonderful dancers back in the. Day. It's too bad your shows aren't longer because you couldn't get everyone in what about Mitzi Gaynor and so many others but thank you
In "Shakin' the Blues Away", the first time I saw it, I kept expecting that yellow drapery behind the peplum to tangle up in Ann Miller's legs. Actually, I think it didat times!
how could you miss out Vera's tap scene from White Christmas?
Maybe it's because none of those were solos?
IIRC, all of her dances were either with a partner (The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing, Abraham) or part of an ensemble (Mandy, Choreography).
Still GOAT routines though!
great video
1:53 for a moment there I thought I was watching Get Me Bodied by Beyonce 😂
Can't disagree with any of these, but Catherine Zeta-Jones had a fantastic number in CHICAGO, when she was demonstrating a dance to Renee Zellwegger
How come Hollywood does not make dance numbers like they use to?
Thank God for streaming and DVDs.
No one could come close to those female dancing stars from the 20's to 70's. I wish commercial programs would delight us one night,each week,with reruns of Hollywood musicals of the past;time to educate the newer generations, of the older ones of the past!!!
Kim Price....a bigger question would be: why isn't Hollywood making films like it did during its Golden Era? For once Hollywood really did have it all in the mid-20th century: the quality, the class, the film genres, the fashions, the talent, the caliber, the prestige.....definitely now a place which can barely reveal in the 21st century what it was in mid -20th.
Gwen Verdon and Ann Miller, yes!!
What's your favorite solo dance scene? Let us know below, and be sure to also check out our video of the Top 10 Best Classic Hollywood Movies of All Time - czcams.com/video/n6HoyAJSye0/video.html
I appreciate partner work more, so I lean toward that. Solo work, you gotta feature Fred Astaire singing "You're All The World To Me" from "Royal Wedding", then dancing to the song -- up and down the walls, then upside down on the ceiling. Very inventive.
Absolute solo dance scene? Of course, Gene Kelly, "Singing in the Rain".
I can never stop watching and smiling when I see Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain. Love both him and Astair for the different styles. Kelly was more of a tapper and one of the gang. Altair was more ballet and ballroom and a real gentleman in the parts he played. Love them both and their gifts
Ann Miller was amazing.
Delighted to see my two favorites, Ruby Keeler and Ginger Rogers, included in this compilation.
Love 💘 the CLASSICS 💎💎💎
Fabulous !!!!
Eleanor Powell ❤️❤️❤️
Excellent list. Very well rounded. I’d add to the Honorable mentions:
The Music and the Mirror from A Chorus Line
And Mein Herr from Cabaret
How about Top 10 Best Ann Miller Dances on Screen?
You have point with your comment. I like Ann Miller. I like them all. Creating a rank video like this is far too difficult for a particular genre. There are such stellar performances from the vast amount of talent.....
Anne Miller- one of my favorite dancers of that time.
Eleanor Powell!
Wow wow wow! Ace performers back in the day, never see the likes of this again! ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊
Moira Shearer, The Red Shoes (1948)
FortheShyGirl......since when has Hollywood or, for that matter, film in general been known to showcase the ballet???? Practically never. Leslie Caron's honorable mention was the closest. Remember Vera Zorina in some of those Hollywood films. She was never recognized either.
@@brianoyler706 Gene Kelly movies. 1930-50 Hollywood. I love Leslie Caron and you have the hip hop nutcracker by DJ Run and hot chocolate cracker by Debbie Allen. It's out there...Vera Zorina. I'll have to do my research... Thanks for replying:)
I really enjoyed how a lot of these movies affirmed the Senior Citizens claims that during the 1930s-1960s dance was modest and demure.
😂 Oh wait…..
Nice! 👏👏👏
Ann Miller had a long career. I introduced my kids to her when she was on Home Improvement
Love Ann Miller and Vera Ellen.
Gene gave her more than an introduction, he choreographed and directed the dance.
These movie dancers were all spectacular. Apart from the movies the two women that competed for my admiration were Juliet Prowse and Tina Turner.
Eleanor Powell was the female Astaire and Kelly! Ann Miller had the fastest taps! Rita Hayworth was in a league of her own!
T.Y. Eleanor Powell was in a league of her own. Even Fred Astaire said Eleanor "put them down like a man", referring to her taps. Gene Kelly really did not dance with Eleanor. If they had danced together, it definitely would have been an acrobatic, athletic event!!!
You don't see many people who can dance as good as those classic actresses did anymore.
There's lots of them, but they don't make musicals any more.
I agree but there is beauty in some of the new styles. Yet give me Cyd Chairsse and anything by Fosse. I can still get moved to tears but great dancing.
Rita Hayworth in Gilda…put the blame on Mame
Loved Ann Miller! Even when she was being "awful" in Can't Take It With You. 😏
Ann Miller didn't get her start in Radio City Revels. She'd already appeared in 6 films by the time she made that film, including her costar turn in the fabulous Stage Door.
Ann-margaret is another great one!
How about Ann Margaret in Bye Bye Birdie
I thought the same thing! I adore Ann-Margret! Debra Bader
I wish Carmen Amaya was included. She was a trailblazer in the world of flamenco dancing.
What about Rita Hayworth's "Dance of the Seven Veils" in Salome? I think that one was amazing.
As is the case with all Mojo compilations, this one is probably best enjoyed with the narration off.
I love that choreography in If My Friends Could See Me Now, but I protest including Sweet Charity as a classic hollywood movie.
JewelTears...I agree with your comment. Sweet Charity was never considered a classic Hollywood musical, neither was Saturday Night Fever or Grease. These musicals were made well after Hollywood's heyday of film musicals.
I worked with Shirley, not in this class of artists. We will never see this kind of genius again.
Two words: Ann Miller!
Ginger Rogers is only an honorable mention!?!?
She did a lot more work with others than solo routines. But it doesn't seem fair to dismiss her, either.
You should put in Ginger Rogers when she does the the Charleston it's stunning
Dorothy Malone's solo mambo in "Written on the Wind" and Sophia Loren's show dance to "Tu vuo fa L´Americano" in "It Started in Naples."
I want to see a sequel of this video. ❤ #sexydancers #classicmovies
I must be the only one who found the Shadow Dance and The Band of Hands numbers, rather unsettling, maybe even creepy.
I did not like Shadow Dance at all. Actually in today's world it seemed racist.
How about including Doris Day, Liza Minelli. Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno
All I can say is cabaret better be on here
Maniac!
Sorry not to see Mitzi Gaynor here. She was quite an amazing dancer!
Leslie Hunter.....you are right on. Until I saw your comment, I did not even think of Mitzi Gaynor. She sang and danced in many Hollywood films. Thanks for mentioning her. And she is still with us.
Any dancer who ever danced with Fred Gene or Danald has my vote so Vera Allen def Cyd Charrise yes and yez Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse too so yeah theres loads Dancing rewuires study work dilliegance i laugh at some of the so called Celebs on shows like Strickly come Dancing ? The Pro Dancers are the true celebs its all good good pozy to remember the greats of the past cheers
Don’t forget Vera’s teeny, tiny waist and strong beautiful legs
Doris Day numbers should've been included as well as some Judy Garland & Juliette Prows and Vera Ellen had some much better numbers that should've been higher up the list.
Adrianne Spring.... Judy Garland was not specifically renowned for her dancing. Garland was noted for being an all-around all-star. The only film I can recall from Juliette Prowse is possibly Can-Can????? Juliette Prowse was mainly stage, club and television. Doris Day was not specifically renowned for her dancing. She was an all-around all-star like Garland. Vera Ellen was mainly a film dancer.
There is a video around of Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire dancing in a nightclub (in a movie) in this circle. It was unbelievable. She was an amazing tap dancer.
The first Broadway show I saw. Unfortunately I believe she came across better on stage than in movies she was a magnificent thing on stage I saw her and so many shows she was wonderful and that odd voice of hers didn't seem to come across in the movies for some reason. Not unlike Ethel merman really didn't come across in her later films if you're that she did but onstage she was a magnificent thing to see.