The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing - Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2013
- From White Christmas (1954). Here is my most beloved performance from my favorite movie musical Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen performing an Irving Berlin classic. Their talent really shines in this performance. Having left the Army following W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, as the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General. Also starring Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney.
Just FYI. Danny Kaye, in addition to being an extremely talented actor, comedian, singer, and dancer, was also a true master chef, jet engine pilot, orchestra conductor, and first celebrity spokesman for UNICEF. He was a true Renaissance man.Also, he so stole this movie!!
I’m 21 years old and I know more about actors and movies from the golden age of Hollywood than the junk of today’s movies. I love the style, the manners, the class. Nothing crude, vulgar, or suggestive. Women were women, men were men. Both gracious
I have always adored that dress.
My gosh! Look at Vera's heavenly dress with the swirling layers of chiffon and her petite Barbie doll figure!
An era when movies still felt magical. Always a joy to watch.
I kinda feel like “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” from the Sound of Music film got inspiration from this scene.
Sure miss Danny K.
This is wonderful, as Rosemary Clooney said. I agree with her it's just a perfect dance scene. During her commentary on White Christmas she mentions how much Danny loved doing this, and how hard he worked on it. Well, it sure shows. My favorite dance scene ever, love this.
I want to recreate this dance
Does anyone have any idea what Vera Ellen's dress is made out of? It is a beautiful fabric that I can't quite place...
"I guess I got carried away."
I want to live in that world.
If I ever get married, I want this to be one of the songs I dance to at the wedding!
"We like to take care of our friends."
My Mom bought me this movie YEARS ago and I was like, "uggghhhh." She said, "Trust me...just watch it." 3 VHS copies worn out, a DVD and a Blu-Ray copy later...I think she was right! Me & my wife watch this even in July, just to make us smile! A classic, in every aspect!!!!! :)
"Forty five minutes, all to myself" LOL.
I mean how much talent did this one guy have?
Oh to be twirled around the dance floor like this... ~sigh 😊
The first time I watched this as a little girl, I fell in love with Danny Kaye!
I remember everything about the day I first saw this movie when it was in the theaters just before Christmas in 1954. When we went in, it was totally dry outside, but when we left, there was 4 inches of snow! To me this movie has always been magical, and with the two sisters, is it any wonder I fell in love with blondes? Ironically many years later, in Tacoma, WA, I helped a fellow save the remainder of Bing Crosby's items (pipes, toupees, memorabilia, etc.) that were stored in an old warehouse, in the very same city where Bing was born. Those items ended up at Gonzaga University, and were saved from being thrown on an auction block to help create a rocker's tribute in Seattle. Sure glad we got there in time!