Love walked in

Very rare.Footage of the wonderful dance number created by Eugene Loring for the TV show "Ford Startime" and performed by Cyd Charisse and James Mitchell.The beautiful music is by Gershwin.This show episode is titled "Meet Cyd Charisse" and is dated 12/29/1959.
Sorry for the technical quality.
http://musical-cinema.blogspot.com/

Loring
One of the best dancers and choreographers ever(Milwaukee,2 August 1911 - Kingston,30 August 1982).
Styles:Modern,Jazz,Ballet.Is a genius!

Dancer in the company of Fokine,in the American Ballet,at Broadway.

Choreographer:Ballet Caravan,Broadway,Hollywood.

Charter member:Ballet Theatre.

Founder:Dance Players company
American School of dance in Hollywood
Dance department at the University of California at Irvine.

Filmography:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520997/

Broadway:http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=5462

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[HurricaneRhonda]

This show has been restored from it's original 2" color videotape but it's only been shown, so far, at film/video preservation meetings for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), the last time was this past August 2010.

[Tommy Rall fan]

Thank you.

[krisniamh byrne]

I can do that...but I just don't want to..! I jest. This is extraordinarily beautiful in the softest kind of athletic way. Inspirational.

[aaacelebrations]

Thank you for this video. Having been on scholarship at his American School of Dance, it is another reminder of how lucky I was

[oldschooljamz87]

Thank you so much for posting this! I never thought I would get to see anything from the show aside from the introduction that was on pbs' website a few years ago. It was great to see, maybe one day it will be released on dvd.

[mca1218]

Rare footage indeed. Thank you so much for posting this. I'd heard of this TV special for years, but assumed it was lost like so many other early treasures. Beyond this, I'd never thought of Ms. Charisse performing on television before, but after all, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and Esther Williams all conquered television with musical specials in that 1959-1960 period. To the other poster, thank you for mentioning an existing color videotape master- do you know if it'll be released to DVD?