Peppy Dance Number at a High Hat Party - From 1929
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Baby, that's my kinda' party.
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It gets cooler with color! And her energy is boundless ... she supposedly inspired a certain Norma Jean Baker to take her first name & become one of THE biggest movie stars ever!
Anyway ... what movie is this from?
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So if I went to a Broadway show at the New Amsterdam theater in 1929, this must have been what the show looked liked. What interesting insight into one of the biggest Broadway stars of the day who, interesting and sadly, did not have such a successful movie career, died in 1936.
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Thanks! I just saw this movie but my copy was all in black and white so it was fantastic to find this video here on YouTube. I loved it. Marilyn was great, what a pity she died so young.
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@ducdebrabant Judy Garland played her in Till The Clouds Role By. June Haver played her in Look For The Silver Lining.
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fabolosa e impresionante............bravo
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this movie is SALLY.
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Awesome Marilyn Miller, incomparable, unforgettable! She is the best dancer, the lightest, freest, happiest dancer I have ever seen.
Bravo!
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One of the interesting things, watching the actual Miller dance is to reflect on Garland's portrayal of her in "Look for the Silver Lining." When Garland does "Who?" in a heavenly dress with a male chorus in evening dress, the choreography is right in the vein of what Miller actually did, and Garland's use of a very feminine scarf seems idiomatic too. To the people who devised that sequence, Miller was more than a name they'd vaguely heard. They had probably seen her.
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Thanks for showing us this!
Oh how lovely! I loved when it suddenly went from black and white to color. Thank you for showing this movie.
Winnie
WinnieMullins 2 years ago
The whole movie was originally in color (1929). When they transferred it for television in the 1950s they used black and white stock since television was black and white. By the time they tried to salvage the original Technicolor, the film had turned to goo. This small segment was found in the 1980s. It is all that survives of the original color version of this movie.
perfectjazz78 2 years ago
Notice how the sound improves *Dramatically* when the Technicolor footage takes over. Technicolor film was better for sound than B&W film. Another possibility is that Vitaphone discs were used for the restored footage.
perfectjazz78 4 years ago