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A 17-year-old Bruce Lee (李小龍) dancing the cha-cha in the 1957 Hong Kong movie Darling Girl (甜姐兒). The next year he won the Crown Colony Cha-Cha Championship.

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Soft Film: Vintage Chinese Cinema http://softfilm.blogspot.com/2008/11/bruce-lee-cha-cha-champion.html

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  • Wow, I can't believe that's really Bruce. He looks so young in this video. Are you 100% sure that it's him? I've seen thousands of his videos, and his body movements seems very different here.

  • Yep, absolutely positively.

  • if i am not wrong, Bruce Lee's cha cha partner was Wen Lan, the daughter of Leung Sing Po.Wen Lan aspired to be a great actress but she had never made it.Bruce Lee's cha cha steps reminds me of a famous scene in "Days of Being Wild" when Leslie Cheung danced the cha cha too.Both were iconic Chinese actors with extreme good looks, lithe body movement.Unfortunately, they both ended their life in different but similarly tragic ways.

  • Yep, that's Wen Lan! I loved her in this movie. She had a great personality.

    Ah... yes... Leslie's cha cha scene. It was such a short scene and yet is so iconic of his physical grace as a performer.

    Both Bruce and Leslie are greatly missed.

  • Yes, that is indeed Leung Sing Po, one of the great comedians of Hong Kong movies in the 50s and 60s. I should also mention that the girl dancing with Bruce Lee is Leung Sing Po's daughter Man Lan (real name Leung Bo Ling), who is the star of this film. The first time I saw her -- although I didn't know who she was at the time -- was in "Viva Erotica" (1996) playing Leslie Cheung's mom!

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  • Girls, girls! Stop that fighting right now!!

    Now see what you've done? You're ruined everybody's evening, and we never got to see Bruce finish his cha-cha demonstration!

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  • @TheWaldosoft , The name of the song is " Ay! Mama Ines", very popular old theme in latin countries.

  • Bruce Lee was Cha Cha king in Hong Kong at the time

  • What's The Name Of That Song :O

  • lol, I love how bruce got the hell outa there.

  • Lol. I had to google this because History Channel did a special on him and they said he was a Cha Cha Champion. I love Bruce Lee.

  • Am I the only person who clicked on this video hoping to see B-Boy Bruce Lee? :'(

  • as far as im concerned cha cha cha is a cuban dancing style,never expected to see bruce lee dancing it,very interesting!

  • lol watch this video in the 1911 effect funniest shit ever lol

  • no wonder he was so good at martial arts, his dancing skills helped him or vice versa;

    bruce began studying gung fu in '53 so the kung fu & dancing complemented ea other.

  • Thank you for this great post!

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