Fred Astaire - I Wanna Be A Dancin' Man (The Belle of New York, 1952)

[Tahkaullus01]

Two viewers obviously grew up in a box

[Renatinharicci]

How is it possible ??? 2 crazy people ! this is amazinggg! this is divine ... an inspiration,a bless from God !

[mamadoenut]

Fred Astaire and Bob Fosse the best dancers to grace the earth

[donyawker1020]

All the great ballet artists from Balancine to Nureyev to Baryshnikov have said the same thing: that Fred Astaire is the greatest dancer in the world. I prefer Bryshnikov's line best of all: " Fred Astaire is a dancer. The rest of us are doing something else."

[joaonazz]

Are You OK, Annie ?!?!?!?!?

[SignorThomasino]

Love that great suit and those spectators too!

[jtbell04]

What's this edited stuff? Where's the original?

[pngebhardt]

blue socks for the win.

[a07002]

He was 53 years old when he did this. I couldn't dance that good when I was 23!

[dancer4evera]

loveeeeeeeeeeeee

[123Rockchild]

INCREDIBLE!! The Master at work.

[zheimach]

Astaire really hates the janitor of this stage, re: :00-:17.

[TwoUselessLegs]

I despise these overproduced things from the 1950s. Christ, just have this guy dance and let the cameras roll. No need for editing! No need for this lard-laiden music. Bigger is not always better.

[MoonEyes2k]

The consummate professional. There are two different shoots of this scene. In the original, Fred was wearing much more threadbare and 'common' clothes. The studio heads, however, decided that that wasn't good enough, and so quite a while later, the entire scene was re-shot. The amazing thing, though, is that discounting camera placement, and of course the clothing, the two scenes are identical, down to the last step and gesture. Incredible dancer, actor, artist and genius.

[fredginger2009]

This is a fabulous dance. It's too bad you had to cut it. I love the combination of the interview clip and the dance thought.