"Slaughter on 10th Ave" from 1939 film "On Your Toes"
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The jazz/ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" from the 1939 film "On Your Toes." Choreographed by George Balanchine originally for the Broadway production in 1936 and then recreated for the film adaptation. This version starred Eddie Arnold and ballerina Vera Zorina. It was one of the first times that aspects of jazz dancing were mixed with ballet for Broadway choreography.
Now I know why the music doesn’t seem to want to end! Dancing for his life! Rogers & Balanchine - thank you.
Another great film from that seminal year in movie history, 1939! I first saw this when I was a pre-schooler, and the music so impressed me that I pestered my mom to get a recording of it! I could watch the beautiful Vera Zorina dancing to Balanchine's inspired choreography over and over. And Eddie Albert does a fine job for a non-dancer. For those who only remember him as Oliver on "Green Acres" ( which is positively, sublimely hilarious) he was a great actor- twice nominated for the Academy Award, and a decorated war hero.
Very innovative for 1939, I'd put these choreography and music in 1950s.
Really impressive ! Music seems to lead the story, dance and tap dancing !
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Can anybody explain the story to me, as I don’t get it…. Why does he keep dancing for example, why does this save him from being shot….?
The gangster planned to shoot the dancer at the same moment the dancer was going to fake shoot himself at the end note of the song, thereby masking the sound of the gunshot from the gangster. If the orchestra would keep playing and continuing the song, the end would not arrive and therefore make the gangster wait and wait for the ending of the song. They did this to stall time until the police arrived and arrested the gangster. Once the arrest happened, the dancer was relieved and free to fake his ending shot to his own head.
Thank you!!!