I doubt it. Things like this were so common in movies back then it would be taken for granted. I've seen something like 15,000 films from the entirety of film history and had never even heard of this film before. Every average musical back then had great musical numbers buried inside forgotten or otherwise forgettable films.
Its hard to believe that Debbie Reynolds wasn't a trained dancer. She confessed that she learnt dancing on set of the 'movie Singing in the rain'. Put her in any musical and she matched the very best of them, step-for-step. In this number from Give a girl a break, she kept pace with Bob Fosse in the intricate foot work. A real trouper if there was one and what a doll to look at. Debbie Reynolds still holds a legion of fans, the world over. Those fans will never diminish!
THIS IS GENIUS!!!!! It gives me so much joy! I can't believe there are so many of these amazing films and sequences I still haven't seen yet - a boy is young, though! I'm sure much more inspiration lies ahead :)
They're not wearing tap shoes, just regular canvas. The tap sounds were added later in post-production "looping". This was standard procedure then as the floors were painted concrete to handle the weight of the cameras and the nature of filming couldn't pick up the sounds. Gene Kelley would re-dub his own taps for Singin in the Rain instead of using a chorus person (which was the usual way to save money).
Fabulous musical number from a film that deserves to be better known. Fabulous direction by Stanley Donen and musical arrangements/conducting by Andre Previn with assistance from Saul Chaplin and the legendary arranger Conrad Salinger. Warner Archive VOD Service is fantastic--a must have for everyone who loves classic musicals!
Definitely happier times I believe.. such passion and love went into so much.. and you had to be in super good shape to do this! So much skill/talent. Just amazing:)
Probably one of the most inventive dance sequences ever filmed. Rivals the football sequence in "I love Melvin". If there was ever a time when America was truly great it was probably the ten year period between 1953-1963; it is reflected in the great films churned out in Hollywood during that period.
There is an overlap with the 1947-57 golden age of American furniture design. It was a time of prosperity and hope for the average person. Art thrived in general.
All that confetti dropping, and you wonder where that confetti drop-age came from that we can now send via text...right here ...and there ...and everywhere... 🤣
@@susanpayer3472 In fact Fosse made this the same year that his cartoonish cabaret style- all somersaults, crawling and finger-flapping- got him noticed when he was one of six in 'From This Moment On', from 'Kiss Me Kate'. By comparison this number is fairly conventional, harking back to movie choreography- covering the height and breadth of the screen- rather than the Jack Cole NYC nightclub confinement in which Fosse had been reared. 1953 was the pivotal year when, from the peaks of 'Kiss Me Kate' and 'The Band Wagon', the musical genre began to wither under the collapse of the studio system and the onslaught of television. It was the year of Ann Miller's greatest routine, 'I've Got to Hear That Beat', but that closed Busby Berkeley's Hollywood career. And it was when Kelly got too big for his britches and went off to Europe, derailing his progress by becoming too arty. MGM had hopes that the Champions, together with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, would pump fresh life into musicals, but Dore Schary did not appreciate the form as Mayer had done. Esther Williams was getting stale and the Freed Unit was becoming too self-conscious, with chic European projects in the works such as 'Funny Face' and 'Gigi'. This was the bad influence of 'An American in Paris', alas.
There are some women who are just forever young like Debbie Reynolds full of energy and beans. I don't care what the media says I don't believe she's passed on. She must have tired of the lime light and besides she looks way too young to have done so she didn't look a day past 50 and a pretty 50 year old at that. She's probably hiding out somewhere secluded to get away from all the paparazi to live her own life with Cary. Debbie you will forever be everyone's younger sister while she most remember for playing a fan turned pro in Singing In the Rain. Debbie Reynolds where ever you are - you are my lucky star and we'll keep admiring you from a far!
I read Debbie Reynolds Memoir "Unsinkable". She said it took 2 days to shoot this balloon scene. She said Bob Fosse was hell to work with. She said he kept poking his large Manhood up against her. lol...... This book was funny and heartbreaking. Debbie Reynolds kept it real talking about the behind the scenes of her movies.
Songs had actual melodies, dancing had real choreographed steps, and learning a craft (not uploading to RUclips) determined performers' success in show business
Yes, although musicals were there during 1920's but they were in low budget and they are like "filmed" vaudeville performances it was like a cash grab at that time, then during the stock market crash then the great depression came. Now, at that time, people don't like to go to theater and see the movies because they are fed up on the "filmed" vaudeville show and a lot of people who are moviegoers before were unemployed and why they would waste their money at that time and radio was there to entertain. Then the movie studios were challenged on how to encourage the people see the theater again. The solution was, they need talented performers and great artistry, they need something that the audience have never seen before. The question was, where they would get those kind of people? The answer, Broadway in New York. That's why starting from the early 1930's most of the actors, actresses, musicians, directors and etc., were mainly imports from Broadway, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland, Al Jolson you name it. And the director Busby Berkley, you need to watch his works they were all great just type his name here in RUclips. But some these actors and actresses were from vaudeville show around US. And it made a Hollywood standard of choosing talents, and they made now beautiful and memorable movies from then on. Until everything changed again.
Here's a clue to watching this: When the snow is going up, the film is running backwards. Pay attention to that and you'll understand what is going on.
I can't recall if I ever seen this movie / clip before. Maybe some here might recall, what, 50 plus years ago, an old wood structure was used to store all the old movies and salient films. two structure fire, all went up like flash paper. what a shame.
Debbie was the Fifties update in glorious Technicolor of Ruby Keeler. Technically ragged, never convincing outside upbeat routines, but surmounts her handicaps with bags of charm, enthusiasm and sweetness. Wonder how much Donen and Gower Champion had to school her for this gimmicky piece.
That's right. Louis B. Mayer cast her in that film over the objections of Gene Kelly. The latter made her dance until her feet bled to get her ready for that movie.
You're actually right. Reynolds herself admitted that prior to SINGIN' IN THE RAIN she could do a timestep and a little soft shoe, but she couldn't be classified as a "trained dancer" - definitely not on the level that Kelly expected in a costar. She also admitted he worked her hard and made life difficult for her on the set, but that didn't stop her from giving him full credit for the length of her career: "I'm still in the business 50 years later because of his teaching." And there's been debate about Mayer casting her over Kelly's objections, particularly from Stanley Donen, the co-director of SINGIN' - "We always wanted her. She'd just done a film in which she sang "Abba Dabba Honeymoon," and you just ADORED her."
When God made her He blessed us. But He broke the mold. There will be another like her. With love The United States Navy. And you Marines can look and weep. lol
Fairly good fun, but I prefer my dancing straight. There are precedents for gussying up the performance all the way back to 'The King of Jazz', but Gene Kelly really began the fad for special effects trickery, e.g. mixing live action and animation in 'Anchors Aweigh'. In his hands it could be delightful. On the whole, though, Fred Astaire had it right: 'Either the camera dances or I do.' Of course it all looks mild compared with the incessant fast cutting and CGI which tries to disguise hoofers' flaws in today's musicals. Animation is gradually elbowing human effort and skill aside.
I love the music but hate that scammer Susan Wojcicki pausing my music playlist and spamming me with endlessly long commercials to upsell us all on RUclips premium apps. Boycott RUclips premium apps and boycott RUclips advertisers.
I’m in the minority here because I think this is a dance sequence that needed an editor’s pen to cancel the confetti and the overuse of backward filming.
i love how this is basically made on reverse, and id like to see the behind the scenes videos
Only about half is reversed. See the paper either falling normally or rising depending on the sequence.
" id like to see the behind the scenes videos" ;)
keptyeti yes. Watching the editing would be a kick, too!
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This number looks amazing here in 2019...I can only imagine that the reaction in 1953 was overwhelming.
I religiously think that only Hugh Jackman and Zendaya could do this performance in a decent way, nowadays... Literaly Only that couple!!!
I doubt it. Things like this were so common in movies back then it would be taken for granted. I've seen something like 15,000 films from the entirety of film history and had never even heard of this film before. Every average musical back then had great musical numbers buried inside forgotten or otherwise forgettable films.
@@JonathanPerez-ke6lq I grant you those are two comparable music theatre experts! Hugh a triple threat. As in days if old
Its hard to believe that Debbie Reynolds wasn't a trained dancer. She confessed that she learnt dancing on set of the 'movie Singing in the rain'. Put her in any musical and she matched the very best of them, step-for-step. In this number from Give a girl a break, she kept pace with Bob Fosse in the intricate foot work. A real trouper if there was one and what a doll to look at. Debbie Reynolds still holds a legion of fans, the world over. Those fans will never diminish!
She was, however, a gymnast in high school, which would have given her some ability in commanding and controlling her body.
Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse together = Magic!
Agreed!
debbie made really fun musicals
I had never seen this gem! Old Hollywood never ceases to amaze us!
Me too! OMG! Young Bob Fosse!
Senyora Santibañez exactly! Who dreams watching today’s movies? Nobody.
Boy their super athletes!! Can you imagine doing all that in one take ?! 🤣
Props to whoever had to choreograph this. Must have taken an insane amount of work!
Tess Crelli tower Champion, probably mentoring Bob Fosse.
@@susanpayer3472 I believe that you meant to type Gower Champion.
Tess d'Urberville yup. Stupid autocorrect!
So clever and inventive. Came here after Debbie described shooting this in her last book.
THIS IS GENIUS!!!!! It gives me so much joy! I can't believe there are so many of these amazing films and sequences I still haven't seen yet - a boy is young, though! I'm sure much more inspiration lies ahead :)
Warner! Do a Blu-ray release, please. Or a Blu-ray box set with musicals from your archive!🎉
Is anyone else super anxious at them tap dancing all over that loose confetti. Tap shoes are slippery enough as is
Good point! And in heels! It's good thing she didn't break her leg!
@@jennhoff03 Funny since the film is called "Give a girl a break!"
They're not wearing tap shoes, just regular canvas. The tap sounds were added later in post-production "looping". This was standard procedure then as the floors were painted concrete to handle the weight of the cameras and the nature of filming couldn't pick up the sounds. Gene Kelley would re-dub his own taps for Singin in the Rain instead of using a chorus person (which was the usual way to save money).
@@lohphat cool fact for us nondancers!
Oh that dress!!! beautiful!!
The dress! 💛 OMG! 💛
Fabulous musical number from a film that deserves to be better known. Fabulous direction by Stanley Donen and musical arrangements/conducting by Andre Previn with assistance from Saul Chaplin and the legendary arranger Conrad Salinger. Warner Archive VOD Service is fantastic--a must have for everyone who loves classic musicals!
Her dress is so beautiful! Looks like it was almost frozen at the bottom.
Love love love this musical number. Thank you!!!!!!
This is one of the best musical scenes I’ve seen in my life.
I didn't realize this was Debbie Reynolds. Never saw her that young, I guess. She was beautiful.
Yes, she was stunning! You should watch Singing In The Rain sometime. It's amazing.
This is genius. I love Debbie Reynolds.
Never seen this before. Its fantastic. Love the music and the dancing. Big Debbie and Bob Fosse fan.
RIP Debbie Reynolds ... ❤❤❤
Definitely happier times I believe.. such passion and love went into so much.. and you had to be in super good shape to do this! So much skill/talent. Just amazing:)
Probably one of the most inventive dance sequences ever filmed. Rivals the football sequence in "I love Melvin". If there was ever a time when America was truly great it was probably the ten year period between 1953-1963; it is reflected in the great films churned out
in Hollywood during that period.
There is an overlap with the 1947-57 golden age of American furniture design. It was a time of prosperity and hope for the average person. Art thrived in general.
Totally right on that one: it was THE GREATEST AMERICAN DECADE,...and a few years before the Vietnam disaster.🎯
Shades of LA LA Land..but better!!!
Yeah . . . better dancing, thanks to Debbie Reynolds and Bob Fosse.
No, LALA Land was shades of this and "Singing in the Rain". :)
I thought same thing when I saw La La Land! I wasn’t sure anyone else would see the reference
All that confetti dropping, and you wonder where that confetti drop-age came from that we can now send via text...right here ...and there ...and everywhere... 🤣
It's amazing to me that they didn't slip and fall on all of that confetti! And those upper ledges looked so high and small. 😳 Fantastic!
Oh my, did not realize Deb had the talent to keep up with the iconic Bob Fosse!!??!!l??
Roxane Mathis he was just a pup, here! I’m sure few people knew yet what he would grow into.
@@susanpayer3472
In fact Fosse made this the same year that his cartoonish cabaret style- all somersaults, crawling and finger-flapping- got him noticed when he was one of six in 'From This Moment On', from 'Kiss Me Kate'. By comparison this number is fairly conventional, harking back to movie choreography- covering the height and breadth of the screen- rather than the Jack Cole NYC nightclub confinement in which Fosse had been reared.
1953 was the pivotal year when, from the peaks of 'Kiss Me Kate' and 'The Band Wagon', the musical genre began to wither under the collapse of the studio system and the onslaught of television. It was the year of Ann Miller's greatest routine, 'I've Got to Hear That Beat', but that closed Busby Berkeley's Hollywood career. And it was when Kelly got too big for his britches and went off to Europe, derailing his progress by becoming too arty.
MGM had hopes that the Champions, together with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson, would pump fresh life into musicals, but Dore Schary did not appreciate the form as Mayer had done. Esther Williams was getting stale and the Freed Unit was becoming too self-conscious, with chic European projects in the works such as 'Funny Face' and 'Gigi'. This was the bad influence of 'An American in Paris', alas.
Old Hollywood was Genious !!! 👍👍👍👍
Wow, this is fun!
Magnifique démonstration de danse acrobatique
Big "movie kiss" at the end.
Best reverse with music harmony😀
Incredible and triple-double fantastic!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The dress 😍
There are some women who are just forever young like Debbie Reynolds full of energy and beans.
I don't care what the media says I don't believe she's passed on. She must have tired of the lime light and besides she looks way too young to have done so she didn't look a day past 50 and a pretty 50 year old at that.
She's probably hiding out somewhere secluded to get away from all the paparazi to live her own life with Cary.
Debbie you will forever be everyone's younger sister while she most remember for playing a fan turned pro in Singing In the Rain.
Debbie Reynolds where ever you are - you are my lucky star and we'll keep admiring you from a far!
You might want to read her daughter Carrie Fisher's book Postcards From the Edge for an insight on why she managed to look only 50
great dancing and balloons
I neeed that dress
I read Debbie Reynolds Memoir "Unsinkable". She said it took 2 days to shoot this balloon scene. She said Bob Fosse was hell to work with. She said he kept poking his large Manhood up against her. lol...... This book was funny and heartbreaking. Debbie Reynolds kept it real talking about the behind the scenes of her movies.
It only takes a few seconds to know by the way he moves, that that is Fosse.
Awesome!!!
Que talentos , hermosa dupla.Seria bueno conocer sus nombres , hay una nueva generación que no los conoce ? ...🙋♀️😘2020
The real Queen Amidala.
?!?!?!?!?!...............BRAVO!........But how did they DO IT?!?!
Wait a minute, you mean celebrities used to be talented?!?
First I laughed, then I was sad... so true.
celebrities are still talented. the media just likes to push the not so great ones. Though even kim K has her strengths!
@@phi1105 Yeah very true sadly.
Songs had actual melodies, dancing had real choreographed steps, and learning a craft (not uploading to RUclips) determined performers' success in show business
Yes, although musicals were there during 1920's but they were in low budget and they are like "filmed" vaudeville performances it was like a cash grab at that time, then during the stock market crash then the great depression came. Now, at that time, people don't like to go to theater and see the movies because they are fed up on the "filmed" vaudeville show and a lot of people who are moviegoers before were unemployed and why they would waste their money at that time and radio was there to entertain. Then the movie studios were challenged on how to encourage the people see the theater again. The solution was, they need talented performers and great artistry, they need something that the audience have never seen before. The question was, where they would get those kind of people? The answer, Broadway in New York. That's why starting from the early 1930's most of the actors, actresses, musicians, directors and etc., were mainly imports from Broadway, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Judy Garland, Al Jolson you name it. And the director Busby Berkley, you need to watch his works they were all great just type his name here in RUclips. But some these actors and actresses were from vaudeville show around US. And it made a Hollywood standard of choosing talents, and they made now beautiful and memorable movies from then on. Until everything changed again.
in the 50s, such shows were popular
Going backwards...back in time when "please, be kind, rewind" meant something!:)
back when Hollywood used to have big budget on the studio production.
They have much bigger budgets now, they simply waste the money on super hero movies and the overuse of CGI.
ايام زمان كان الفن له معنى
Wow that dress I with we can wear this days
Really cute number-thanks
is that fosse in the yellow? wow.
was this scene made in reverse?
A solid 75% yea
Just certain parts. See the falling or rising paper depending on if it is forward or reverse.
Noo
Here's a clue to watching this: When the snow is going up, the film is running backwards. Pay attention to that and you'll understand what is going on.
I think the whole thing is running backwards. Am I wrong?
Gotcha!
@@saraatkinson8023 it stops running backwards at 1:48.
Bob Fosse!!
Tenet before Tenet exist
Wow I like it
ok but that dress!
Just noticed the annotation says 'Click here to watch GIVE A GIRL A CHANCE' rather than Give A Girl A Break which is what I assume you intended! :)
I can't recall if I ever seen this movie / clip before.
Maybe some here might recall, what, 50 plus years ago, an old wood structure was used to store all the old movies and salient films. two structure fire, all went up like flash paper.
what a shame.
Is that Bob Fosse? 😮
Such fun! Classy dancer! Was that Bob Fosse dancing with her?
Yes, Suzanne, it's Fosse!
Debbie and Bob Fosse...…...great! Wonder if he choreographed this number.
Don DiFonso so much of his style already shining through, I’d guess the answer is yes, under tutelage from the famous Gower Champion.
I have a suspicion this is in reverse
Now I want to buy a '52 Studebaker, adjust the carburetor on it and then rake the leaves and burn them.
The original lip dub ❤️
...I don't think they ever sang! ;'D But it was very original. :)
Debbie was the Fifties update in glorious Technicolor of Ruby Keeler. Technically ragged, never convincing outside upbeat routines, but surmounts her handicaps with bags of charm, enthusiasm and sweetness. Wonder how much Donen and Gower Champion had to school her for this gimmicky piece.
Do we have to put the dumb ads on even before the clip ends ?!
0:13 They reversed the footage. Clever.
they must be airbenders, you can tell by the yellow attire
she had no dance training till singing in the rain . if she had 0.o
That's right. Louis B. Mayer cast her in that film over the objections of Gene Kelly. The latter made her dance until her feet bled to get her ready for that movie.
Thsys not quite true. She had sone in thst movie with carlton carpenter
She had gymnastics training in her youth, which is why that cartwheel was so clean.
You're actually right. Reynolds herself admitted that prior to SINGIN' IN THE RAIN she could do a timestep and a little soft shoe, but she couldn't be classified as a "trained dancer" - definitely not on the level that Kelly expected in a costar. She also admitted he worked her hard and made life difficult for her on the set, but that didn't stop her from giving him full credit for the length of her career: "I'm still in the business 50 years later because of his teaching." And there's been debate about Mayer casting her over Kelly's objections, particularly from Stanley Donen, the co-director of SINGIN' - "We always wanted her. She'd just done a film in which she sang "Abba Dabba Honeymoon," and you just ADORED her."
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🌺🎈🎀🎊🎉🌈‼️彼女は、やたら！、、可愛いい🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎀🌈🌈
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これなんていう映画だろ………(無知)
All before computers...
read UNSINKABLE Debbie Reynolds' book for more risque BTS details on filming this (and other of her movies)
100% bet Christopher Nolan was inspired by this to incorporate the reverse look to his movie Tenet.
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Waooo
Is that Bob Fosse?
I'm pretty sure that's the amount of garbage I've recycled in my entire lifetime... feels futile. ....Anyway, I loved this dance! So clever!
A scene from Tenet.
美しい beautiful
Tenet: The Musical
Great, but strange they didn't give her a heavier dress or a more close-fitting garment.
When God made her He blessed us. But He broke the mold. There will be another like her. With love The United States Navy. And you Marines can look and weep. lol
1:40 theyre making cryptocurrencies lol
TENET ?
That big clown balloon looks like Donny trump
It's a pitty Warner Archives hides part of the final scene with advertising. It happens in all Warner videos.
Watching the dress move in reverse is weird
Fairly good fun, but I prefer my dancing straight.
There are precedents for gussying up the performance all the way back to 'The King of Jazz', but Gene Kelly really began the fad for special effects trickery, e.g. mixing live action and animation in 'Anchors Aweigh'. In his hands it could be delightful. On the whole, though, Fred Astaire had it right: 'Either the camera dances or I do.'
Of course it all looks mild compared with the incessant fast cutting and CGI which tries to disguise hoofers' flaws in today's musicals. Animation is gradually elbowing human effort and skill aside.
Tenet be like:
I love the music but hate that scammer Susan Wojcicki pausing my music playlist and spamming me with endlessly long commercials to upsell us all on RUclips premium apps.
Boycott RUclips premium apps and boycott RUclips advertisers.
But isnt that Gene Kelly ?
Bob Fosse.
I do not enjoy tv or movies like I used to.
The way her skirt acts during the reversed sections is incredibly distracting.
I’m in the minority here because I think this is a dance sequence that needed an editor’s pen to cancel the confetti and the overuse of backward filming.
...odd
This is awful, I can't believe its Stanley Donen.and Warners ain't MGM.