Gene Kelly at the age of 47, in a 1959 TV program from the NBC Burbank CA studios.
Listen to the Musicality… Watch the Choreography and the footwork… Simplicity is Beauty… It is all about Musicality….
Preserving and Advancing the Art of Tap Dance.
By Tap Legacy
Gene Kelly at the age of 47, in a 1959 TV program from the NBC Burbank CA studios.
Listen to the Musicality… Watch the Choreography and the footwork… Simplicity is Beauty… It is all about Musicality….
By Tap Legacy
ay Bolger began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called Sanford and Bolger.
He, like Gene Kelly & Fred Astaire, was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor.
He was signed to a contract with MGM in 1936 and his first role was as himself in The Great Ziegfeld 1936.
This was soon followed in 1937 by a role opposite Eleanor Powell in Rosalie.
His first dancing and singing role was in 1938 Sweethearts, where he did the wooden shoes number with red-headed soprano/actress Jeanette MacDonald.
This got him noticed by MGM producers and resulted in his being cast in his most famous role, that of the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, 1939.
Surprisingly, even though the film was a success, Bolger’s contract with MGM ended. He went to RKO to make Four Jacks and a Jill , 1942.
After this, Bolger went to Broadway, where he received his greatest satisfaction.
In 1953 he turned to television and got his own sitcom, Where’s Raymond?, later changed to The Ray Bolger Show.
After his series ended, Bolger made frequent guest appearances on TV and had some small roles in movies. In 1985 he co-hosted That’s Dancing! with Liza Minnelli.
Enjoy…. the humor of the acting will put a smile on your face, and his Tap dancing will brighten your day. Listen to the taps…marvel in the rhythm.
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Ziegfeld Follies the film by MGM is a 1945 musical comedy.
It had seven directors including Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth.
The stars line up was many of MGM leading talents, including Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
The clip shown The Babbitt and the Bromide features both Kelly and Astaire, the only time on the silver screen.
Producer Arthur Freed wanted to create a film along the lines of the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway shows, the film is a sequence of
unrelated lavish musical and comedy sketches released 1946 to critical and box-office success.
Sit back and Enjoy!!!
By Tap Legacy
Yes, Truly a Yes for Yet Another Great Reason to Celebrate Kelly and O’Connor.
Watch these Two Tap Icons on the same stage again, having fun and playing,
Enjoy… Is all we need to say!!! Watch and Listen to the Clarity, Rhythmic Musicality and the overall Artistry…
It’s Time to Bring it Back…. And Yes, Do Have A Big Smile – WOW!!
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Yes, it has been another day that the joy of Moses Supposes is needed!!!
It is from Singin’ in the Rain released 62 years ago in April of 1952.
A musical love story of actors and their movie studio caught in the transition from the silent movie era.
Gene Kelly Don and Donald O’Connor Cosmo have fun with the diction coach of Jean Hagen Lina in a memorable number Moses Supposes“.
Watch their feet, listen to the Musicality of the Rhythms. Triple Threat Masters. Really Really Playing!!!
Enjoy and May it put a smile on your day!!! Week… And so on!!!
By Tap Legacy
Somehow there always comes a day that needs this…. From Moses Supposes with Gene Kelly to Good Mornin’ with Kelly and Debbie Reynolds.
Comes Donald O’Connor in his most infamous routine of physical comedy, song and dance from the 1952 movie Singin’ in the Rain“.
Enjoy this HD clip highlighting this Triple Threat Master really really playing at work!!!! Making us all laugh for decades in his Make ‘Em Laugh signature routine.