Carmen & Geoffrey - from First Run Features

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Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, two living legends in the world of American dance, are the subjects of this intimate and revealing documentary. Carmen achieved notoriety in the early 1950s, as a lead dancer of incomparable beauty and grace with Alvin Aileys American Dance Theater. Geoffrey, large in life and an elemental force on stage, found fame not only as a dancer but also as an actor (Live and Let Die), soda spokesman (the Un-Colaaaaa...) and theater director (The Wiz). He and Carmen met in 1954 and married a year later.

Filmed over several years in the United States, Trinidad and Paris, this exquisite documentary features candid interviews and glorious dance performances, with legends like Alvin Ailey, Herbert Ross, Lester Horton, Joe Layton, Duke Ellington and Josephine Baker, demonstrating the amazing talent and uninterrupted creativity of these icons of dance.

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[bumblebeebattv]

@LadyFlameSniper I agree with you miss, they ARE a lovely couple... I used to work at his answering service in NY in the 1980's. I never knew he was married-- God bless them... ;^)

[TheReturnOfStephan1]

@Diamondgrl2007

They have one son, Leo. CL discusses him here: watch?v=Y6ggy58-aDs

If you haven't seen it, you MUST see Eartha Kitt's in Mr. Holder's production of Broadway's "Timbuktu": watch?v=PsKJDm35CfQ

[Diamondgrl2007]

@TheReturnOfStephan1 yea i knew Quincy had somethin to do with it just never knewnthe songs name...do you know if they have kids?

[TheReturnOfStephan1]

@Diamondgrl2007 LOL

Nuh-uh!

He said fours DAYS after he first saw her, he proposed!

Sometimes, Mr. Holder's Trinidad accent is difficult to understand.:)

The song's real name is "Soul Bossa Nova", by Quincy Jones.

[Diamondgrl2007]

ha! the Austin Powers theme...

Wait this is geoffrey now?? the guy from Boomerang?? i swear i didnt kno that was who was who she was married to..do they have kids??

did he say he proposed after 4 years?? (his voice is too deep...couldnt understand)

[LadyFlameSniper]

Beautiful couple, nice to see. Why on earth was this rated 2 stars.

[abldwn]

Both very talented people. Very beautiful couple, married over fifty years.

[ciccocenta]

Gawd he was hot when he was young!!!!!!! & she was soooo pretty!!! What a couple!

[lalamama4real]

I recently rented this video and it ended up being defective. Only got half way through it. I was truly disgusted! But just means I'll have to rent it again. I can tell it's a winner!

[Sharone326]

So beautiful she is. I did'nt know they were married.