The Crazy Gang - Apache Dance

[moosedecumanus]

As a dance it is super violent ,I really feel for those two aces, As modern dancers I can only see bruises ,I think they are too good ,maybe one or two bruises ,really ace ,really ace

[akarpowicz]

Very impressive. Love it, thanks for posting!!

[Danzigtnt]

i was looking for Hasan Baba :D:D

[CazRaX]

Damn she kicked his ass.

[ziggycat999]

Too violent to be entertianing.On tour in Germandy,England and France as a dance of Apache Indians of the United States by outsiders is sooo wrong..

[thomasknash]

@ziggycat999 It isn't based on Apache Indians dancing. It is based on "Les Apaches" of Paris, the nickname they gave Parisian street thugs and hoodlums during the Belle Epoque period. Supposedly they would dance like this in the clubs and dance halls.

[GNTremblay]

It's an amazing number! so impressive and surprising for this time... I want to know more about them... any other information! I don't find any of those film... :(



[diddymuck]

in these dances its rare the chick would fight back.

[kwen17]

no se si agregarlo a favoritos o denunciar el video ?¿?¿?

[dyllock105]

Domestic violence to the rythm

[parradise1]

wow intense.

[Malangsufi]

Crazy inlove perhaps?!

[adhishb]

no apaci dansi?

[sodamus]

Co za asy!

[michaylo74]

clowns...

[Sgomez143]

Go grandpa Andy

[Sgomez143]

This is my grandfather Ashour in the video I have many more pictures

[parradise1]

@Sgomez143 That is so cool. Do something on reddit!!

[psychobunny32]

i want to dance like this at my wedding!!!

[wrestleme12368]

See what happens when you slap around your female dance partner. She turns the tables an whips your ass!!

[junkman19571]

i wouldn't mess with her....

[klibahn29]

The boss abuses the poor working girl and she gets back at him. I love this and the metaphor in it.

[milanblue]

amazing.. !

[evdekisesegel]

nice dance

[DPlover1]

does anyone know how to understand them when they're talking that fast? >3>

[loyangz]

WTF???!!

[yunk9]

wow i wasn't expecting that :)

[lrobe27]

they never do this on dancing with the stars :(

[Chiliarches]

...it's like pro wrestling!

[talcumpowder1000]

The poor mans' version of The Marx Brothers. Enid Stamp Taylor steals the film. Any clips of her from this movie?

[sheppaul]

let me know if you are going to post the performance from the Ed Sullivan show, it is the best I had ever seen, I collect them yours would be the jewel in my collection

[aastor78]

@sheppaul

 It'sdone. It's not the video taken at Ed Sullivan, but the same act and the same people, that means me and my first wife in 71. Search Ivane & Andre Astor

[aastor78]

@sheppaul

I post the video on the name of "Ivane & Andre Astor ". It's not taken from the Ed Sullivan show in 67, but in 71 on a theatre in Spain, same act same people( me and my first wife) with more maturity. Enjoy.

[aastor78]

There were not british or jewish, but french. Ashour passed away in 91, and Lucienne(my mother)in 2009 at 92. I personaly performed 9 years with this act before beeing a ventriloquist(see ANDRE ASTOR)We belong to a 250 years old french circus family.

[Goshdangit69]

great time!

[quetnique]

that was awesome

[musiclover21a]

they are all english and worked with flannagan and allen

[aastor78]

They were both french. Ashour became american during war II, passed away in 91 in Pasadena Ca. And Lucienne(my mother) in 2009 in Maisons Laffitte France, at the age of 92.

[SimonW]

Extraordinary

[MorrisManDanceMan]

love this brilliant thanks

[loopyallie]

I saw this movie years ago, oh god I thought I would never see this classic dance again! Thank you so much, when I first saw it I laughed so hard...

[lasalomesita]

Alguien me podria decir como se llam la cancion del baile apache que siempre utilizan??

[fatyowls]

Brilliant thanks for the short story to. Good to see they survived the war.

[dorsal08]

I just read that the Apache dance was violent towards women and that the women would sometimes fight back. So I looked up this video to check it out. AMAZING! The description did not do it justice. This is so controversial I wonder how this scene ever made it into a film. Bravo to these incredible performers!

[sheppaul]

this was a main stay in a lot of variety shows and dance recitals some very erotic

Check out these movies

Ma and Pa Kettle on vacation

Abbott and Costello meet the mummy

The Four Poster (Great Animation)

Your in the Army now(Phil Silvers)

ON you tube

Ma and Pa Kettle at a french restaurant

Danse Apash 1935(Charlie Chan in Paris)

if anyone can get the excerpts from Ed Sullivan Show with Ivan and Avatar(the best team I have seen)or the the team on the Mike Douglas show Yvonne Michel and Eric

[aastor78]

Ed Sullivan show Nov 87 staring Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations. The name was Ivane & Andre Astor. The women on the video with the crazy gang was my mother. Lucienne & Ashour became Ivane & Andre Astor. I will put this video shortly on line. Waiting for it, you can Search "Andre Astor" on Youtube.

[sheppaul]

thank

The best team I had ever seen .1967 ,

[hotun]

thanks for the information - We love far out variety plus ventriloquism too!

[sheppaul]

was the team on Ed Sullivan the same team or did other family members take over

[aastor78]

On Ed Sullivan, that was me. My mother stop working in 1960, but tough me the act in 66. I did it untill 1974 on the name of Ivane & Andre Astor. It's a long story to tell how the name Ashour became Astor. Then from 1975 I work as a ventriloquist on the name of Andre Astor. The act is on youtube. I made a mistake above, The Ed sullivan TV show you saw was recorded in 67, not 87

[warped160]

that is some amazing choreographing!

[pooryorik3]

WWF 1930's style. Disturbing and fascinating.

[redredreds100]

norville, knox, naughton, gold, flanagan and allen, brilliant

[yurimorena]

i've never seen such thing it was great n funny!!!! thanks for the video, im faving it.

[birchthebirch]

WOAH ! extreme wife battery !

[jwj1471]

Classic 1930s Apache. And a big strong girl...!

[Philbisregin]

Crazy! That was more martial arts than a dance!

[Morahman7vnNo2]

I wonder how they someone a raise...

[kilahuea9]

Tambien me gusto la de cantinflas

[twannifufu]

wow... that has got to hurt.

[turnoutjim]

Leaave it to the french to come up with a dance that in the end the man get his ass kicked by a woman!...all kidding aside, it's rather quite a beautiful dance form

[wisperofdeath]

are you saying we can't kick a mans ass? I assure you we can.

[solarisqs]

Great performances - *********

[carineducirque]

HELP!!!!

who are the musicien????

i think it's creating especially for us but it's perfect in the rythm, so i want to know where can i try it?

help me please it's for a show!!!!!

[Mojosbigstick]

Excellent Apache!

[celticjimfox]

Absolutely fantastic. 70 years ago and still better than anything around today.

[jabberwock01]

How very depressing.

[WitchesCreation]

this is cool! a classic and good entertainment... yah somewhat violent.. but they are trained for it.. :D

[McPancak3s]

thats gotta hurt

and in heels as well!

[ride55304]

Amazing!  violent and sexual, gymnastic.

[regisgoat]

I've seen this show-biz trad acted out elsewhere, there's a tame version in one of Maurice Chevalier's movies. (This routine was so popular that there's a great metaphor derived from it: "The Boho Dance" in Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word). But I've never seen the woman triumph utterly in it like this, and good for her! Quite a routine--how the hell did they do it? I guess the trick was not minding that it hurt.

[sergrod1]

1 word: WOW...

[fvrrljr]

awesome, see Cantinflas version of El Baile Apache

search Cantinflas Bailando posted by Dinastiaov

when I dance the Apache within me comes out Grrr

[vrikey]

Awsome performers. Imagine living back in those squalid Paris underground zones at the turn of the century - those folks were brutal! One careless bump in a crowded bistro could end up in a knife fight!

I've used this style of performance in a stage act of my own making, and believe me: today's audience still finds it quite riveting.

Forget break-dancing, bring in the Apaches!

[scropton]

Quality, trained gymnasts. Far and above anything seen today.

[Tamborr]

The aerials and many other details (except the steps) in the excellent lindy-hop number in Helzapoppin (1941) looks a lot like this 1937 Apache Dance.

[Ultrabrut1]

Wanna dance?

[pabl65]

coslts!!

[slobomotion]

So French! I know! I have two damaged knees from this fun from a couple of months ago. Greetings from France.

[finisher77]

Heh heh. Turnabout is fair play.

[ptupper72]

Kinda like swing dancing combined with pro wrestling.

[skoebiedoe]

Huton,

thank you very much for sharing this great blast from the past.

[hoss1962]

who were the dancers?

[recneps2001]

They are Lucienne and Ashour, first recorded performing this speciality act in Berlin's Wintergarden Theatre in 1931, so presumably German. They are also in London in 1936 at the Palace Theatre, possibly after moving from Paris, since they are billed as French Boy and Girl. They appeared in this Crazy Gang film in 1937 after performing with them on the London stage, but the next mention of them is wartime, 1940-41, in San Francisco

[recneps2001]

Their other film performances are in Alan Dwan's 1943 Around the World and two Hollywood films in 1950, Chain Lightning (with Bogart) and Woman of Distinction, with Rosalind Russell. In 1952, they are billed in a nightclub in Boston with the surname Hockney. They may have signed off on comedian and chatshow host George Jewell's final TV show in 1954.

[recneps2001]

I suspect they may be Jewish, their moves suggesting they were keeping one step ahead of Hitler. If any of their surviving family or friends have further information, or anyone can trace these film titles, I'd be pleased to hear.

[hoss1962]

Thanks for the info - recneps.

[wallygreeninker]

the brute's Hitler-type moustache is a nice touch for 1937 - or am I just imagining it? it's hard to make out.

[wshepherd316]

I collect the dance and this is one of the best ones