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Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly - "The Babbit & The Bromide" (1945)

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Uploaded by on Oct 29, 2011

Astaire and Kelly team up in a comedy song and dance challenge in three sections, to music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin. From "The Ziegfield Follies".

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  • If anyone can tell me what a babbit or a bromide is please post here :)

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  • thumbs up if you knew about this before family guy

  • the great thing about this is the real contrasts that you get to see, gene kelly is a lot more sensible and gets everything spot on, whereas fred astaire has more flair and freedom in his movements which sometimes shapes the routine differently.

    awesome to see, nice upload

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  • Gene Kelly was so hansome :)

  • Someone asked me who my favorite dancer was, Gene or Fred and I was like do I have to choose? I think they are both amazing and have rather different styles so it's very hard to choose between them, I like them both a lot.

  • This is really good I love all the old stuff :)

  • @shufflehop

    A babbit is an insincere and shallow person commited to middle class values.

    A bromide is a phrase or platitude that sugests insincerity or a lack of originality in the speaker employing it

  • I knew this before Family Guy so...stop talking about it! We get it...it was Family Guy (which was funny) but still

  • @shufflehop Occurrence

    The bromides are commonly found in sea water, with chlorides, at an approximate concentration of 65 mg / l, which represents approximately 0.2% of all dissolved salts. Marine foods usually contain high levels of bromine, while food from soil containing varying amounts.

  • @shufflehop and bromide The bromide ion is a bromine atom with electric charge -1, ie, with an extra electron.

    The bromides are bromine compounds where the oxidation state acts -1. They are also the salts of hydrobromic acid (HBr).

    They can be ionic compounds, such as cesium bromide (CsBr), or may be covalent, such as sulfur dibromide (SBr2).

    They are used as sedatives from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • @shufflehop babbit is to cover something with white metal

  • What a wonderful pair of jokesters! Funny, there's exactly the same 13 years between Gene and Fred and between Donald and Gene. Love 'em all!

  • Wonderful to see two VERY different styles of tap here - learned in very different times with very different bodies!

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