Eleanor Powell on All Star Revue 1952 1

[SatchmoSings]

A great moment; no "cuts" and no overdubbing the tap; a great moment.

[luckdog909]

She is such a beautiful and talented woman!!!

[hajune]

As Ellie said . She worked hard to make it look easy. She danced 12 hours a day and said she would rather dance then eat. In her hey day they would build a temporary grand stand and when her routine would come up everyone got a break so they could watch her dance. That was reserved only for Ellie.

[Ena2005rion]

as beautiful as ever!

[olafdavila]

She is the best, undoubtedly. She does everything so easily! As if dancing like that was very easy. Only gifted people are able to give us that impression.

[alfons]

ZEEEER goed

[netwitt1]

In watching this clip yet again, I am amazed at how light Ellie is on her feet. It's all too easy to be clumping around when tapping and she always seems to be floating an millimeter above the floor - those feet moving so easily and so quickly. She just doesn't look as though she could be carrying any weight she moves so smoothly. She NEVER fails to delight!

[opelske]

She was and is still the best! Love watching her dance at any age. So graceful - a female Astaire. Always looks like she enjoys it and is having so much fun. Too bad she wasn't in more movies. A great talent. Thank God for film!

[Julie101670]

When looking up the words elegant, dancer, dynmaic, graceful, energetic, beautiful in the dictionary...Eleanor Powell's picture should be right next to them. What a wonderful dancer!  She definitely put the tap in tap dancing.

[dahliafully]

this looks like it's from the danny thomas show which was a great early variety show on TV.

[Shurayuki18481]

Such a wonderful dancer, tap dancing actually improves your bone density. It's why you find many women and men in their 90's who can still tap.

[sschimel]

She does pretty well here, considering that she was 40 (an age when many dancers have stopped dancing due to injuries). Also, she had been dancing professionally since 1928. And she was the most amazingly limber dancer. She did highkicks where she could touch her forehead, and she did some pretty amazing backbends. That has to take a physical toll eventually. I adore her.

[mem43204]

She's so elegant abd I can't believe how amazingly she controls her lower body when she's danceing. She has amazing posture for a tap dancer.

[shrimprapjibjab]

Okay Eleanor Powell is my idol. I am a tapper (in the making). She most def looks like the stage is WAY to small. Plus she is a size 5 (lol i would know) And she seems older here like she can't do what she used to do when she was younger. Sad i know :(

[netwitt1]

If you watch part 2 of this clip, she has a much bigger stage and cuts loose more.This stage is definitely way too small for her and the camera placement was too static - she always interacted so well with the camera and here she obviously had no control over placement. She always makes it look as though she's having the best time and you just want to join her! Not sad at all, just graceful aging - something we are forgetting in our plastic culture.

[tapnerd]

Yeah, it is kinda sad that she didn't wind up continuing in the big films. you can just tell from the way she moves that she'd like to travel more than the tiny stage allows. Still, a stellar performance the likes of which will probably never be seen again.

Oh, and anyone else notice how tiny her feet are? They must be a 4 or 5 in modern street sizes (I once got to hold her shoes, what an honour!)

[Shurayuki18481]

Really when did you hold her shoes and where!!!

[tapnerd]

A couple years ago. Her son did a presentation for the Vancouver Tap Dance Society workshop about his mother. He was really nice and entertaining, and they did a silent auction of a pair of her shoes. it was really fascinating to see how the shoes were made in those days; they had to reinforce Ellie's heels with steel for her acrobatics in her younger days.

[seppojustnow]

This lady, Eleanor Powell, has tap techniqe that gives me goose bumps under any circumstances--it's her talent, not the production, that is important. The costume, however, doesn't do the number justice. But gawd i lover her.

[dannybex]

Kind of sad in a way... Poor Ellie was reduced to appearing on a tv show (with cheap sets and poor, poor lighting) while her contemporaries were still making big films at MGM, Fox, even Warners. The number probably would have come off better if it were shorter as well. Must've been frustrating for her...

[hotwok19]

In this tap-dance routine, Eleanor Powell still shows an amazing fluidity of movement. She was, by now forty years of age & her dancing was, as you would expect, less athletic than in her films of the thirties. Of all Hollywoods great female dancers, i.e. Ginger Rogers, Vera-Ellen, Cyd Charisse & Ann Miller, is was Ellie who was my favourite.

[twentiesDOLL12213]

Wow...I watched this again and I want to say I think she was the best tap dancer ever! Look at Ellie go, even though the sets suck...she's great anywhere, at any age!

[elinmusik]

Thank you for bringing us this great material. I really enjoyed it!!!

Elin form Argentina.

[creamofcardstv]

Hi, I like your video clip and have rated it as awesome. Please check out mine on some 1930's movie star cards. They include: Eleanor Powell, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Maurice Chevalier, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford ....

[Machineguntaps]

WOW WOW WOW!!!! There's no dancer that will ever match up to her! Loved the part from 3:07 onwards!!! Thanx ALOT for uploading this!!! And these insensitive pricks who don't appreciate tap should go screw themselves because I bet you they won't be able to tap like that for 4 minutes!!!

[abdwybabe]

One my favorite dancers!! Thanks!

[abreuferreira]

Maybe some people did not see Eleanor dancing and taping on the movie BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940, one of the most beautiful things I saw about dancing!abreuferreira

[twentiesDOLL12213]

She was great in all of the Broadway Melodies she was in, Broadway Melody of 1936, 1938, 1940...but I think her best was B'way Melody of 1936.

[MalikRocco]

Thanks twentiesDOLL, I commented about Broadway Melody of 1940 because here, in Brazil,was the sole movie I can buy, and I'm very disgusted with her husband at time, Glenn Ford, that prohibited her to dance. The world lost an artist! MalikRocco

[filmfreak491]

Yeah but like grace kelly who gave up acting for her husband they would have known before the marriages what they were giving up so eleanor was obviously resigned to it. Still a great loss.

[bon1042]

Begin the Beguine no. w/Fred Astaire, fabulous. When Sinatra introduces it in That's Entertainment, Part I, He says, "You know... you can wait around forever... but you'll never see the likes of this again.. I get a lump in my throat whenever I watch it, and goosebumps. that statement nails it.

[hotwok19]

That tap-dancing routine between Fred Astaire & Eleanor Powell, to which you refer, is the greatest piece of dancing i have ever seen. Fortunately, i have it taped as the film you mention, is regularly shown in the UK on TCM movies. Frank Sinatra, as you rightly say, was spot on!. These two, in my opinion, were the greatest male & female dancers Hollywood ever produced. Only Gene Kelly offers Astaire any competition, & Ann Miller to Powell as the queen of taps.

[bon1042]

Hi, I agree w/you on dance routine between FA & EP. My favorite big production number is Lullaby of Broadway in Broadway Melody of 1935, Buzby Berkeley, even he evidently was a bit of a sadist (abused J. Garland) and a voyeur per interesting PBS documentary on how he would put scenes together w/individual starlets. My personal favorite is Rita Hayworth, Astaire said she was his favorite partner, watch her w/him in anything, ethereal, luminous, fluid, graceful.

[hotwok19]

Buzby Berkeley was a choreographic genius. Some of the routines he created, sometimes for vast numbers of dancers, are still jaw-dropping today. By the way, do you know about the "Dailymotion" website, which has more than twenty EP videos. If not, then check it out

[alwaysjinxed]

Thanks for posting this!! Always great to see new Eleanor routines!

[RJMCCLOUD]

What do you mean nismans "so stupid" as that is a stupid comment to make. They didn't pick up the sound of the "taps" very well. But its not bad dancing for a 40 YEAR OLD, as Ellie was at the time!!

[nismans]

u commented my tap video likewise, so I liked to do the same for u

[eleanorpowell]

Thanks so much for this!! It is a very valuable document. I've never seen it before.

[nismans]

so stupid

[kiles]

It's not stupid. You don't appreciate good tap.

[musk56]

it looks simple...but try it sometime...then you'll find out!She was the best tap dance ever!