Top 10 Iconic Vera-Ellen Dance Scenes
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2021
- We're always thinking of these Vera-Ellen dance scenes. Our countdown includes "On the Town," "Three Little Words," "Words and Music," and more! What's YOUR favorite Vera-Ellen dance scene? Let us know in the comments!
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Hello. I'd like to see a full dances compilation of Vera-Ellen performances. It is so hard to fine the material I'd like to do it by myself. Pleeeeeeaseeee....
(However, well done kid. You did a job, really...)
Her dancing is the main reason I watch White Christmas each year. An amazing icon of old Hollywood 🥰
Yep, same here, family tradition at my house. I love Vera-Ellen and my daughter loves Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. My wife doesn't understand our obsession and that's ok 😊
You have supreme taste.
It's Christmas again and have just had my fill of White Christmas and those glorious Vera Ellen routines. I will never never get tired of her genius.
BEST Legs ever.........
Vera Ellen is so incredibly underrated in our modern day. She could hold a candle to the best of them.
She was the best of them.
Absolutely!
So few could hold a candle to her.
She was never really under rated at the time she was in film musicals. Everyone knew how good she was. But from what I gather, which includes a comment from Fred Astaire who thought she was a terrific dancer 'but a very strange, somewhat difficult girl,' the eating disorder that she had acquired, also ended her career. It was painfully obvious to the studio heads and her concerned co stars, that when she made White Christmas she was dangerously thin. She still had the high energy that she always had, but the cameras - which actually added visual weight, didn't lie - and all her costumes had to be re designed with high necklines to disguise the fact that her neck was showing the full extent of her illness. Astaire thought she was the best all round dancer he had worked with. Cyd Charrise was by far the best technically, and a gorgeous dancer to watch, but she couldn't tap dance, and Vera could do most of it well. She was exciting to watch. So, unlike some of her peers like Jane Powell, Ann Miller, and Debbie Reynolds, who could also sing and act and took on dramatic roles, and Broadway, she just stopped working. You can see in her early films with Danny Kaye how she should have looked. Healthy. She's almost unrecognizable in Wonder Man. The difference is alarming.
Vera-Ellen was a gifted, elite dancer….and incredibly cute!
I fell in love with Vera-Ellen on White Christmas! *SOOOO ELEGANT and FLUID-LIKE 😍*
Vera-Ellen is an absolute dance LEGEND. As a tap dancer I admire her so much, especially the dance in the song Choreography in White Christmas. Tapping her foot against the floor so fast it looks like her foot isn't even moving, but you can hear the taps to evenly and perfectly. The control she had was ELEGANT and INCREDIBLE. We always watch White Christmas in my house at Christmas, and my school is even doing the White Christmas musical and I got cast as Vera-Ellen's character, Judy!
You do know that all film dance 'taps' are recorded on tap boards after the film and then added to the soundtrack is shot don't you? There's a bit of film trickery in filming taps. Vera Ellen and Ann MIller could do their own, and did. Other's who I won't name - didn't.
Yes!!!!! Thank you for highlighting the talents of this HIGHLY UNDERRATED dancer and artist! She deserves to be up there with Ginger Rogers and Ann Miller.
White Christmas' Choreography...when she descends with her foot tapping so fast your eye can't follow it...perfection!
That should have been shown! It's amazing!!!!
When I first saw that, many, many years ago, I got
chills that ran down my spine. “White Christmas” became my all time favorite Christmas show right then and there!
❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤
What a beautiful tribute to the best all around female dancer of the golden era of Hollywood. Vera-Ellen should be more studied and acknowledged. A phenomenal dance talent.
Vera Ellen suffered from Anorexia at the time, although they didn't know what it was at the time, her waist would fluctuate from 17 inches to 21 inches and she may have had ribs removed, so along side her slender co-stars she was so very scrawney!!!!!
@@kimberlyspence3610 Not true.
What a fantastic dancer! She was so in tuned with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She was also in tuned with Danny Kaye and all the other dancers! God Rest Her Soul! What a talented performer!
Everyone forgets Donald O'Connor. She was supposed to do more things with him, I read in a bio.
The fact Vera Ellen is finally getting recognition is awesome! She truly was an amazing dancer.
Her dancing makes you go just wow! Nothing like it today
How the heck did I miss this list? I love Vera Ellen, she was so talented and doesn't get enough credit. She complimented each of her male dancing partners so well yet could do a solo number if needed, that takes skill. I mean she danced with the best of the best, Astaire, Kelly, Kaye and O'Connor.
I love watching her dance in White Christmas. And that waist, was so tiny. Also fun fact from White Christmas was that one of the dancers was George Chakiris who played Bernardo the leader of the Sharks in the 1961 movie of West Side Story. Thx&see ya😁
They left out two of my favorite dances from "Call Me Madam". Nothing is better than what she did with Donald O'Connor in that film!
My favorite dance has always been the duet with Danny Kaye in White Christmas. JUST WONDERFUL!!
The scene from White Christmas where Vera-Ellen is slowly lowered down and you first only see her feet doing an impossibly fast toe tap was/is the most fascinating thing I always looked forward to seeing in the movie. I think it's during the Choreography number. Also, the dress in The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing! Legendary!
Vera Ellen was a fantastic dancer. She was also very fortunate to have danced with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly two all time great male dancers. Thank you for this fun video!
I love Vera in; On the Town, but White Christmas is a classic! It's such a colorful, beautiful movie to watch during the holidays 🎄💖👍
I watch it year round.
@@juanitadaleslusher9628 Im going to make it a tradition! 🤣👍❤️
How could number one be anything else?! I remember a few years ago White Christmas came on tv. I had never seen it before and I was entranced by the whole film, but this scene especially!
White Christmas is a must when December rolls around.
100% agree!! 👍👍👍
@@SamanthaN92 🤗
I would love to see another top ten for Vera Ellen. Call me madam has a dance or two that are definitely worthy of a top ten list. Happy to see a list of her in general though.
I agree and think both those numbers belong in this list. Both performances were impeccable in that movie.
@@ShelleyWantiez-bq3fh agreed!
Lots of female dancers, this one was the best! So very under rated.
How could you NOT mention ONE dance from "Call Me Madam"?!? :-( Vera Ellen and Donald O'Connor are sooo good and the chemistry there is incredible.
Thank you, I said the exact same thing!
Vera Ellen di.d every type of dancing and brought them to the highest level.....ballet, tap. acrobatic, ballroom, and just the most energetic of dancing moves with or without dancing partners. She really was one of a kind being so multitalented plus a beauty to watch and did justice to every costume she wore in all her films......Nice collection shown in this video......very well done tribute to her.
Vera Ellen was the very Best!!
I'm 70 now, but i've always had a crush on her. Still do. I think she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.
I can't believe you slighted the entirety of Call Me Madam. She has some really good dances in it, once again paired with Danny Kaye.
Donald O'connor...she is with Danny Kaye in Wonder Man & Kid from Brooklyn
@@Cesteth OOps, I guess it's been a while since I've watched it!
Both their dances in Call me Madam were flawless and beautiful. Yes, that definitely was slighted.
She is the reason I took tap as a kid. I wanted very much to dance like Vera.
You also need strict ballet training to dance like Vera.
Wow, just wow! Vera Ellen was the best female dancer/performer of all time. Thank you for compiling these incredible highlights of her extraordinary talent, enjoyed SO much!
OMG this made me so rediculously happy!! My mom raised my sister and I on movied like these, and all those old classics. Vera was a legend!!
Fun little story: in high school history class, my cousin and I were able to answer questions based from old classics that were meant to totally stump our class. We got them all right! I remember the look on my teacher's face when we each gave the correct answers. He asked how we both knew, and my cousin and I just shared a quick smile and replied "we're related, our moms both raised us on the good old classics."
Anything Vera was in was magic. She past away 2 years before I graduated high school. By that time I had already seen all but two of her movies. I had been involved with dance for most of my years by then. I love to dance love to watch it. Vera Ellen was always breath taking. A joy for the eye's to watch.
"The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing" and "Mandy" from White Christmas.
That Mandy, what a gal!
Everybody just loves Vera-Ellen! She was a real Dancing Queen. I saw her first in "White Christmas", - of course! - and got totally charmed. She was amazing everywhere, - in this classical Chrismtas musical, in "Belle of New-York", - and, naturally, as en elegant European princess in "Call me Madam".
That one leg, overhead swing in the “Papa” number…Oh. My. God.!!!
She's one of the best if not the best hollywood dancer, my fav is when you walk down main st with me from on the town followed closely by the best things happen when your dancing ,& not to forget most of her dances are with male legends ,fred, gene, danny kaye ,& she's in total sync with all of them whether its ballroom, tap or other dances ,& of course not to mention she's a total babe & my all time celebrity crush lol 💃💃🤗🤗😍😍
I watched White Christmas for the first time today, and couldn't wait to get home and google the cast. I was astonished by Vera-Ellen, just amazed at how good a dancer she was and yet how slender compared to other stars of that era. Now watching this, merry christmas everyone x
She was so slender because she was anorexic.
Thanks for posting this great list of Vera-Ellen dances. I only wish you had included two dances from Call Me Madam -- It's a Lovely Day Today and Something To Dance About, both with Donald O'Connor. Vera-Ellen and Donald were a great underrated team in these two underrated numbers. I would have enjoyed seeing them together in more films but this was their only movie together. EDIT: Okay, now time for a list of Donald O'Connor dances!
I just said the same thing, didn't see this post until later. Agree both with the evaluation of the Cole Porter film, and O'Conner's work. There is a YT video of several male stars showing what I hadn't realized, which was his influence on the work of Bob Fosse, which makes sense but I had missed the crossover somehow. And we do still have excellent dancers and choreographers still working, some recreating previous work and others doing new work, inspired by, consistent with, and pushing the boundaries of the expected, just as these pieces did in their own time. Gotta dance!
Agreed! Those two duets from Call Me Madam were brilliant.
Which one of these was the number where she wore the long sleeve pink dress with purple gloves? It was maybe one of the most beautiful dresses ever and her dance in it should have been a top 3. I have the portrait of her in it hanging in my home.
@@jackoff1826 Was the dress from Call Me Madam? The two numbers I mentioned had Vera-Ellen wearing a long sleeved white formal gown and the other a red jacket/plaid skirt daytime ensemble. I have only seen one other daytime outfit and one other formal from video clips, but they are not pink either. I'm guessing her most famous pink dress (no gloves) was in White Christmas when she was dancing with Danny Kaye.
@@suebob16 I believe someone mentioned a water scene dancing with O'Connor. I believe that's the one with the dress I recall...I'll see if I can find it
Vera Ellen was amazing!!
Vera Ellen is an amazingly talented dancer and one of my favorites!
What a fun list! It brought back memories of watching old movies with my dad.
Same but with my mom ☺️
ABRAHAM is my absolute favorite. Even today, I've never seen nothing like it. It's AMAZING‼⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My favorite has always been Mandy😉
She was super unrated she is outstanding in her skill of dancing I love her in White Christmas one of the greatest dancers of all time
Like many others I fell in love with Vera-Ellen when I first watched White Christmas, which is still one of my favorite films as an adult…..actually my family only lets me have it the day after Thanksgiving and I have to turn it back in New Years Day 🤣
This is adorable, real testament to how much you love the movie. It’s also my favorite Christmas movie!
What?!? No "Choreography"? She's a master class on tap in that one.
Love that one as well.
A lot of these were before I was born, but saying that! White Christmas is a big favourite but also when she played Shehezarade. Nowadays you have actresses or musicals, not quite sure how to express it. But then they were expected to do everything! Vera Ellen was a character, which means she will be remembered!
Love the White Christmas dances the most, especially "The Best Things..." but wow that TOSS forward, then backwards down the staircase in Mandy took so serious guts! And trust of her fellow dancers to catch her.
Rosemary Clooney said Vera-Ellen was the hardest working and the most professional of all the Hollywood dancers. Considering, Judy Garland, Anne Miller, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron etc., were her contemporaries that is great praise. Ballet, tap, ballroom, Vera-Ellen did it all. Even that simple sequence in On The Town where, in a black leotard she does excercises at the barre is entertaining. The music is so grand and the way it is filmed. That is a classic piece of vintage, dance cinema.
So glad to see Vera Ellen get some dues. Love this lady!
Mum and I watched Vera-Ellen All the time, so beautiful and elegant and so talented. I am now 60 and still watch Beautiful Lady and think of Mum XXXXX
White Christmas my favorite movie- The Dances-The Music - The Costumes- it doesn’t get any better!
My sister performed "Main Street" for a televised production of "On the Town" for her dance schools showcase and it was incredible!!
How could you forget to include "So in Love" from Wonder Man?! Insane!
All of her dancing is absolutely beautiful... truly 😍💕
At about one minute into the "Miss Turnstiles" dance, the narrator says that the lucky lady to be Miss Turnstiles could be you. She turns to the camera blares, "'Who, me?" he says, "Yes, you," and her reaction is the moment at which I fell deepy and hoplessly in love with her.
gotta love Ivy Smith
Well Done!! I just Loved all these Marvelous clips! Mandy is my Absolute Favorite!! Vera-Ellen was such a vision of Loveliness! Thanks so much. 😊
Doing all that in high heels . . . She had it all. Grace, beauty, strength, smarts, and dance chops.
So In Love from Wonder Man. You should do a video on Danny Kaye's musical numbers.
Loved Vera Ellen. She was one of a kind.
On The Town is my all time favorite movie! Senior year of HS i watched it everyday I got home from school cause it makes me happy! My grandma raised us on these movies and I love them all!
I love the Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen dance in White Christmas. It's my favorite.
Vera-Ellen was a fine dancer and I think she was the best dancing to Thinking Of You in Three Little Words. I always enjoyed her style
She was just AMAZZZING
I was recently watching “White Christmas” and noticed how athletic she was to be doing those dances. She was really talented.
Sweet and sexy and one of the most talented dancers in motion picture history. Those legs just went on forever. I love classic film. Hollywood doesn’t know how to make pictures like this anymore. Truly talented performers.
The commentator is right, they don't make em like they used to anymore. It's a hit and miss when you find anything amazing on tv or movies anymore.
I love watching her move.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Vera Allen was amazing. She was a great dancer in a time of very good dancers.
Just love her!! Don't know that I agree with your sequencing, but she could do it all - might have been the most versatile dancer of all the MGM gals!!!
An Dancing Star, so much power, poise and fulidaty
My favorite is #3. Love the singing and dancing with Danny Kaye.
I would add when she did the cane twirling dance with Fred Astair. The best cane dancer on film.
What a beautiful dancer, we love her in White Christmas!
Well you got it right on Vera Ellen. Terrific beautiful talented my favorite old Hollywood dancer. She was a former Rockette and has the most incredible legs. Thank you for the video!
ahh, Miss Turnstiles. Haven't watched all your clips but I hope "Hey! What's Your Name?" from The Kid from Brooklyn is included...still watching, oh her and Fred are tossing the baby! My ABSOLUTE is when she comes down from the sky in White Christmas with her foot tapping! Merry Christmas Ms.Mojo.
Adore her
Day in New York with Gene Kelly but I'm a sucker for anything with Gene Kelly or the best things happen when you're dancing are probably my favorites Vera was amazing
I love Vera Ellen in many of her performances. But Miss Turnstiles from On The Town remains my favorite. From ballet to virtual fighting in one performance.
Vera-Ellen as Ivy Smith would be my favorite too.
So flawless and effortless 😍😍😍
So many! But "Choreography" from "White Christmas" when she speed-taps...unbelievable!
SHE WAS GREAT!!!!!
I agree Vera was a Legend! She could preform with the best.
I went into this thinking “if Mandy isn’t #1, imma lose it”
When I went to kindergarten in the morning I was supposed to nap in the afternoon. But I would hear music and singing and dancing and come down the hall to sit on the floor and watch. Till Monday got up one time and saw me. Then I got to sit on the couch with her and watch. Vera Ellen I wanted to be her. So glamorous and boy could she dance.
They say the original Barbie doll was made in her likeness.
Yes, leaving out her work in Call Me Madam and the early Danny Kaye/Goldwyn films is unfortunate. But her versatility was never equaled in the number ‘You Make Me Feel So Young’ from Three Little Girls In Blue. Vera-Ellen could do ballroom, tap, ballet, and athletic gymnast style dancing. No other film dancer did it all.
Belle of New York and Call me Madam were my 2 favourite movies of Vera Ellen
The best of the best!
My favorite is “Mandy” from White Christmas. I like one that wasn’t on here. Where she wears pink & brown & kind of taps while she does ballet! It’s awesome.
I alway loved her !! Talent and beauty and moves like liquid mercury
She was the best.
Not only Vera-Ellen is GORGEOUS and SUPERSEXY, dut she's imho the greatest dancer of the history of cinema. She's so far greater than Ginger Rogers and all the other great dancers of all the time. What a tragedy we have only a handful of movies with this fascinatig hummingbird. She brings true joy in the dance, something that is so real that everyone can perceive it.
One of the greatest dancers of the time, one of the most beautiful women of the time.
You missed all of her earliest numbers from "Wonder Boy" and "The Kid from Brooklyn". She did some amazing tap dancing on her toes. Also, I liked the number she did to "Willow Weep for Me" in "Love Happy", her only black and white film in 1949. However, your picks are excellent.
Vera-Ellen is great in white Christmas
I first saw Vera-Ellen in Love Happy with the Marx Brothers. (Naturally none of those scenes made the list.) What a doll! So sad she died young at 60.
She was Beautiful, Like A Real Life Barbie Doll
My thoughts exactly!
"London Town" from the British/American movie musical "Happy Go Lovely" She is a vision.
Her most underrated film has to be the British musical Happy Go Lovely. The quality you can find today looks washed out, but Vera is simply charming in the dance numbers, especially the fantasy-themed “One Two Three”
Legend!!! And ....wow!!!! White Christmas!!!!
I loved her as. Princess with Donald O’Connor.
You forgot her excellent dancing numbers with Donald O Connor in Call Me Madam