Take A Look At Her Now (1929)

[ssarahlabadinii]

The little dancing guy is my grandpa!! He died though:(

[blacsouljah]

Does anybody know the lyrics to this song? I'd appreciate seeing then.

[FarnhazenBrep]

From now on, I'm going to call George Raft Mr. Snakelegs! Wow. I don't know that I've ever seen anyone dance like that. He's doing moves that (dare I say it?) remind me of Michael J.

By the way, for anyone who doesn't know. George Raft is best known for playing well-dressed gansters in the movies of the early thirties.

Be sure to check out Night After Night: ckxDwZA8b5Y

It was Mae West's 1st film, but she was already so popular in NY she got to write her own dialogue. Really.

F Brep

[yayoineko]

He's so cute when he starts dancing! X3

[blacsouljah]

Wow! That George Raft sure could dance!

[phillippatterson1]

All of the dancing ladies would be over 100 years old today.

[RobinPratt]

Oh that George! He was too hot!

[rockgor]

Well, I had read that Raft was a dancer early in his career. (So was

Clifton Webb.) Never saw the dancin' Raft before.

Tnx 4 the interesting post.

[glawsny]

Lets not forget George Raft's big dance number"Sweet Georgia Brown" in the 1944 film "Follow The Boys"

[Streamline09]

At 1:25 it looks like he was watching James Brown :-)

[Onlymusical]

Fred Astaire, in his autobiography "Steps in Time," said Raft was a lightning fast dancer and danced "the fastest Charleston" that Astaire ever saw.

[MsKoali]

I just had to see him do this again. I'll be back, I think I won't be able to get enough.

[tomitstube]

wow great stuff, 1929. i knew george raft did gangster parts, but he was obviously a very good dancer too. wikipedia says this is the oldest surviving raft movie.

pre-code movies were the best, it's been said some 50% of them have been lost. thanks for putting this on.

oh, another trivia fact. this movie was released one month before the stock market crashed and the depression began.

[MsKoali]

George Raft amazes me with his moves. Wow! Cutie.

[CoreysOldLady]

man that guy sure can get down and boogey....break dancers would even be impressed

[gomezesmorticia]

gorgeous dames

[VANEXAHP666]

recopadoo relindoooo...sensacional,la rola esta reloka pive

[dukesgal39]

Love this! I get such a kick out of seeing these old clips where Cagney and Raft are dancing .... and they ARE GREAT! Then they became "gangsters" ....?

If you enjoy George Raft, take a look at the 1937 film, Every Night at Eight" where George plays a bandleader and can't resist a little dancing "on the side" while Alice Faye sings.

Why can't we have more movies like that?

[TheRealBobbyChase]

mae west said that Raft was a great actor but not ambitious. before Hollywood he worked for the mob in New York. mae said he was all man in everu sense of the word.

[MarkEdwardSpeer]

I am amazed. Raft is incredible in this clip. I'll have to rethink my opinion of his screen persona now and wish they'd put him in a few vehicles that showed off this side of him. He was great.

[jennifer1003]

Ok lets see if if anyone can do these moves Raft made on "Dancing With The Stars" .... I doubt it! Raft was an amazing dancer & just all around nice guy! Yea he had his bouts with gangsters & had temper...but hell ...who hasn't???!!! He was one sexy guy...read his bio...WOW, some juicy stories there! A real ladies man!! Oooooo how I wish I knew him! LOL :) Thanks for this fantastic clip!!

[flan453]

Fantastic clips on stjn000's website. Thank you !

[IdaSputum]

George Raft, i always knew he was special & here's the proof - a multi-talented dancing gangster.

Cheers for getting this together for YT

[nicodagger]

The quality of the film is AMAZING for 1929, then put onto YouTube!! Very impressive.

[4Topwood]

George Raft is so light on his feet he makes all those lovely ladies really look like "hoofers", if not heifers.

[blacsouljah]

@4Topwood

Hoofers if not heifers . . . lol!

[TheGranule]

Lots of see-through dances and leg kicks with short skirts.

"I can see up high" indeed.

[RealEstateInABQcom]

He's my third cousin - what a great guy! i love the stories my grandmother would tell about him...his real original name was "ranft"

[Onlymusical]

@RealEstateInABQcom Yes, I understand George Raft spoke fluent German. He strikes me as having had one of the most fascinating lives of anyone in the 20th century.

[TheMoviefan1996]

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[TheMoviefan1996]

That men is a good dancer.

[TheMoviefan1996]

My cousin done that.

[TheMoviefan1996]

Katie

[TheMoviefan1996]

George Raft was actually born, 1901.

[fnorkle]

@TheMoviefan1996 No he was born in 1895. Check IMDB and a variety of sources

[peplumz]

wow, amazing dancing from George Raft.

Love the era. It's timeless.

[jennifer1003]

Wow-look at him move, what a dancer!!

Thanks for this wonderful upload- I always like to see Raft dancing! He's amazing!

[empressoffrance]

@jennifer1003 I never knew he was a dancer. Wow, he was great. Not hard on the eyes either. Class and dignity back then. Today pfffff

[gingerrogersfan]

@jennifer1003 - finally found this clip, oh my goodness, George Raft is soooo cute when he's dancing, and what a great dancer too, love this video! thanks for letting me know.

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

This was when the music was really music and when the dancing was actually good today the movies movies actors singers and dancers are junk and most of the people today don't even realize lots of people think that the old movies are junk but actually the old movies is the best movies ever made

[blinko656]

Could not have made this video if you had not posteed this rare footage which I borrowed. Than You.

Mike

[ChristophePhilippe]

What's amazing is how well he moves. He really had the chops of a dancer.

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

Oh well I was going to ask you if you could put a clip of Hard Boiled Rose (1929) (part talkie) starring Myrna Loy on YouTube cause I've always been curios to see how that movie looks.

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

I just want to know one more thing were did you get this from cause this movie is a rare movie it sadly ain't even on DVD

[stjn00]

I don't believe any of the films I show clips from are available on DVD. Sometimes great films are shown on TV.

[KrazyKartoonKid]

Have you tried Warner Archive?

[blinko656]

Can't get it on DVD.. I tried, nothing..

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

I was wondering since lots of silent movies and early talkies today are lost films is this movie complete

[stjn00]

Yes, Side Street (1929) has survived.

[saxondog2001]

yes .. thank you. This is a gem. George Raft had been an exhibition dancer, at one point boast the fastest Charleston in the world.

[marbleflat]

A gem. Thanks for uploading ;)

[unclemeat2u]

It must have been a blast to be young in the 1920s.

=)

[mybosco30]

@unclemeat2u They did everything we do now , but is sure looks they are having WAY mo fun

[melollylolly]

class--all the way! miley cyrus and brittany spears--no class at all-miley cyrus has no talent at all-she doesn't even sing that good-manufactured, bland and nauseating!

[ikevyoiPhone3G1996]

George Raft should have made more musicals and in Technicolor

[quailsong1]

Hard to see George dancing after all the gangsters he played.

[jaker303]

it don't sound like George's voice

[augury010]

You have to take the age and quality of the film into play. It's George, just... lol Ancient. ^-^

[SJA1949]

GREAT music and dancing..but anyone know that lady that's singing there is??

[remyw01]

June Clyde is singing. She was a performer from the age of 7 (billed as Baby Tetrazini) and was unbilled for this performance in Side Street (one of 3 movies she did that year). In 1932 she made 10 movies. In 1957 she had a part in the Crawford movie "the Story of Esther Costello"

[JTPM4ever]

nice!

[quailsong1]

George Raft, dancing, I'm an old lady and can only remember his tough face as a gangster. I love to see him dancing.

[redredreds100]

people forget, or just don't know, that Raft and Cagney were both as they say "hoofers" before they turned bad, and shot up the towns, i like old ladies

[freya77]

Seriously, what happened, guys? Instead of guys like Raft, girls my age are forced to crush on the likes of Zac Efron, ugh.

<3 George Raft

[Mr1920s]

And guys are forced with 'things' like Miley Cirus an Brittany Spears...

[gmaureen]

I've always loved George Raft. He was a really good dancer...handsome too!! Thanks for the clip.

[Bargle5]

Wow, George "Crazy Legs" Raft. Great!

[nikola1389]

This would be so much better without the dancing xD

[LazlosPlane]

How about if they left out the music, the dialogue, the sets, and the lighting?

[nikola1389]

how bout making relevant comments^^ thx

[LazlosPlane]

What?

[henry814]

The sound of the band here is perfect late-20's, too - those cymbal crashes!

[RRaquello]

I think the guy at the beginning of the clip w. Raft is Owen Moore, who was Mary Pickford's first husband. I'm nt sure, but it looks like him.

[barberof1965]

Yes that IS Owen Moore. He also was in a GREAT gangster flick in 1930 called Outside the law with Edward G Robinson

[78timothy]

Raft was a pretty good "Hoofer"

[sb6613]

There is clip of Raft at the London Palladium variety show with Jimmy Tarbuck

[cushtichavi]

Seen it on You tube. Its fascinating to watch him as he could still move. He was a great guy who seemed to enjoy his fame

[Impowers]

I've been a Raft fan since I was a kid but this is the first time I've seen him really dance. God, it's amazing, just as I'd always read. Doesn't look like anything else I've ever seen. I'd love to see that movie "Broadway," in which he plays himself during this period although the movie was filmed in the early 40s.

[whizbang47]

That's that Milton Berle dance.

[HarborGuy]

It's wonderful films like this that got us throught he Depression and make "talkies" worth the price of admission then......

[blinko656]

stjn00 - could you tell me where you got this clip or dvd. I can't find it.

Mike

[scruffyardito]

Its comes from a Movie called Side Street. Showed up on TCM september 06.

[blinko656]

Thank You.

[1psoas9]

GREAT scissors -- he really moves like a snake, spine so supple, so strong, with hte legs just hanging off and doing stuff.... THanks for posting. I'd heard, but never seen before.

[cushtichavi]

Where did all the great Deco furntiure go?

[monky999]

george raft was quite the hoofer before his "gangster" days at WB.

[jamierourketen]

very different voice!

[NYVoice]

The old raft swirl-around. He was really good in Bolero with William Frawley. George really hoofed it good.

[philipcarol]

Simply superb dancing.

[diomanUK]

the raft voice had yet to emrge.

[HarborGuy]

George was cast as gangster - or lover but he was a great dancer like James Cagney was ...Thanks for the great viceo......

[kspm01]

Excellent!

[busternuckles]

What a great clip! I've always wanted to see

him dancing--if he hadn't changed his screen persona,we might have seen him in more musicals. Thanks again.Keep those great clips coming