The film That's Dancing!

That's Dancing!

That's Dancing! is a 1985 retrospective documentary produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that looked back at the history of dancing in film. Unlike the That's Entertainment! series, this film did not focus specifically on MGM films and included more recent performances by the likes of John Travolta and...

 is also known as That's Entertainment! III.

That's Entertainment! III (1994

1994 in film

1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

) is a documentary film

Documentary film

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 released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

 to celebrate the studio's 70th anniversary. It was the third in a series of retrospectives that began with the first That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment! is a 1974 compilation film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate its 50th anniversary. It was followed by two sequels and a related film called That's Dancing!....

(1974) and That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II is a 1976 motion picture by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and a sequel to the 1974 documentary That's Entertainment!. Like the previous film, That's Entertainment, Part II was a retrospective of famous films released by MGM from the 1930s to the 1950s...

(1976). Although posters and home video versions use the title without an exclamation mark

Exclamation mark

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, the actual on-screen title of the film uses it.

Many changes had occurred since the first two films - including the deaths of Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...

 (who had co-hosted the first two films) and many other MGM stars of the past. Plus, the advent of home video

Home video

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 and cable TV

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 had made many of MGM's films readily accessible to audiences, a luxury they did not have in the mid-1970s.

In order to provide a "hook" for audiences, the producers decided to feature film footage cut from famous MGM musicals. Many of these numbers were shown for the first time in That's Entertainment! III.

Highlights include:

• An alternate version of Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.-Early life:...
  
  's extended tap dance
  Tap dance
  Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the...
  
   routine to "Fascinating Rhythm
  Fascinating Rhythm
  "Fascinating Rhythm" is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1924 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It was first introduced by Cliff Edwards, Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire in the Broadway musical Lady Be Good. The Astaires also recorded the song on April 19, 1926 in London with George Gershwin...
  
  " from Lady Be Good
  Lady Be Good (1941 film)
  Lady Be Good is the title of an MGM musical film which was released in 1941.The film starred dancer Eleanor Powell along with Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, and Red Skelton. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Arthur Freed...
  
  , shot from a second camera that revealed the well-orchestrated, behind the cameras activity needed to keep the scene moving smoothly.
• "Ain't it the Truth", a Lena Horne
  Lena Horne
  Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...
  
   performance from Cabin in the Sky
  Cabin in the Sky
  Cabin in the Sky is a 1943 American musical film with music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by John La Touche, and a musical book by Lynn Root. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 25, 1940. It closed on March 8, 1941 after a total of 156 performances...
  
  which was cut (Horne suggests it was censored) before the film's release because Horne sang the song in a bubble bath.
• Several previously unseen Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
  
   production numbers, including "Mr. Monotony", cut from Easter Parade because it was deemed too risque for the period of the film (the half-tuxedo outfit Garland wears in this number is the same as the one she'd wear in the "Get Happy" number from Summer Stock
  Summer Stock
  For the article about the theatre genre, see Summer stock theatre.Summer Stock is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical made in 1950. The film was directed by Charles Walters and stars Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main, and Phil Silvers...
  
  three years later); an extravagant musical number, "March of the Doagies", cut from The Harvey Girls
  The Harvey Girls
  The Harvey Girls is a 1946 MGM musical film based on a 1942 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams about Fred Harvey's famous Harvey House restaurants. Directed by George Sidney, the film stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Virginia O'Brien, Ray Bolger, and Marjorie Main...
  
  ; and two numbers filmed for Annie Get Your Gun
  Annie Get Your Gun (film)
  Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro Goldwyn Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney...
  
  ("I'm an Indian Too
  I'm an Indian Too
  "I'm an Indian Too" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin. It was originally performed by Ethel Merman.It is typical of mid 20th century views of Native Americans, and is sometimes considered racist and demeaning from a contemporary perspective, although others see it...
  
  " and "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
  Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
  "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, written by Irving Berlin. The song was introduced by Ethel Merman in the original production of the musical...
  
  ") before Garland was replaced by Betty Hutton
  Betty Hutton
  Betty Hutton was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.-Early life:Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg and his wife, the former Mabel Lum . While she was very young, her father abandoned the family for...
  
  . Garland left MGM soon after, making these her final musical performances for the studio. The original theatrical release omits "Doin' What Comes Naturally" but it is included on the home video version.
• Footage from an abandoned 1930 musical called The March of Time, in particular a sequence called "The Lock Step" featuring The Dodge Twins which strongly resembles the later title musical sequence from the 1957 Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
   film Jailhouse Rock (also featured in That's Entertainment! III).
• Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...
  
   singing "You Are My Lucky Star" in a sequence cut from Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
  
  .
• Ava Gardner
  Ava Gardner
  Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress.She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers . She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day...
  
  's unused vocal performance of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" for Show Boat
  Show Boat (1951 film)
  Show Boat is a 1951 Technicolor film based on the musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and the novel by Edna Ferber....
  
  before she was dubbed by vocalist Annette Warren.
• The opening dance sequence from The Barkleys of Broadway
  The Barkleys of Broadway
  The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at MGM that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart...
  
  with the credits overlay removed so that the dance routine by Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
  
   and Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....
  
   can be viewed unobstructed for the first time.
• An alternate performance of "I Wanna Be a Dancin' Man" by Astaire from the film The Belle of New York
  The Belle of New York
  The Belle of New York is a 1952 Hollywood musical comedy film set in New York circa 1900 and stars Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Alice Pearce, Marjorie Main and Keenan Wynn, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Johnny Mercer...
  
  . In the alternate take, Astaire wears informal clothes; the studio requested the number be reshot in formal dress. In the film, both performances are shown side-by-side to demonstrate the thoroughness of Astaire's rehearsal process since both performances are virtually identical.
• An unused performance of "Two-Faced Woman" lip-synched by Cyd Charisse
  Cyd Charisse
  Cyd Charisse was an American actress and dancer.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s...
  
   from The Band Wagon
  The Band Wagon
  The Band Wagon is a 1953 musical comedy film that many critics rank, along with Singin' in the Rain, as the finest of the MGM musicals, although it was only a modest box-office success. It tells the story of an aging musical star who hopes a Broadway play will restart his career...
  
  , presented side-by-side with a performance from the film Torch Song
  Torch Song (film)
  Torch Song is a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Michael Wilding in a story about a Broadway star and her rehearsal pianist. The screenplay by John Michael Hayes and Jan Lustig was based upon the story "Why Should I Cry?" by I.A.R. Wylie...
  
  using the same vocal track but now lip-synched by Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
  
  .
• An alternate version of "A Lady Loves" performed by Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...
  
   in I Love Melvin, intercut with the version used in the film (the cut version is set in a farmyard while the version used takes place in opulent surroundings).
• An amazing contortionist performance from the film Broadway Rhythm
  Broadway Rhythm
  Broadway Rhythm is an MGM Technicolor musical film. It was produced by Jack Cummings and directed by Roy Del Ruth. The film was originally announced as Broadway Melody of 1944 to follow MGM's Broadway Melody films of 1929, 1936, 1938, and 1940. The movie was originally slated to star Eleanor...
  
  , featuring the Ross Sisters.

Hosts for the third installment in the That's Entertainment! series were Gene Kelly

Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...

 (in his final appearance on film before his death in 1996), June Allyson

June Allyson

June Allyson was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss . From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology...

, Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse was an American actress and dancer.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s...

, Lena Horne

Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the...

, Howard Keel

Howard Keel

Harold Clifford Keel , known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s...

, Ann Miller

Ann Miller

Johnnie Lucille Collier, better known as Ann Miller was an American singer, dancer and actress.-Early life:...

, Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...

, Esther Williams

Esther Williams

Esther Jane Williams is a retired American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team...

, making her first appearance in a theatrical film in more than 30 years and Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...

.

All three films were released to DVD

DVD

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 in 2004. The box set collection of the films included a bonus DVD that included additional musical numbers that had been cut from MGM films as well as the first release of the complete performance of "Mr. Monotony" by Judy Garland (the version used in That's Entertainment! III is truncated). The home video version of That's Entertainment! III also contains several musical numbers not in the theatrical release.

Appearances

• Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
  
  
• Lucille Ball
  Lucille Ball
  Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy...
  
  
• Jack Benny
  Jack Benny
  Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...
  
  
• Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
  
  
• Ray Bolger
  Ray Bolger
  Raymond Wallace "Ray" Bolger was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hank in The Wizard of Oz.-Early life:...
  
  
• Lucille Bremer
  Lucille Bremer
  Lucille Bremer was an American film actress and dancer.Bremer was born in Amsterdam, New York and began her career as a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, aged 16. Bremer, along with fellow stars Vera-Ellen and June Allyson, appeared as a 'Pony Girl' in the Broadway musical Panama...
  
  
• Jack Buchanan
  Jack Buchanan
  Walter John "Jack" Buchanan was a British theatre and film actor, singer, producer and director. He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George Grossmith Jr., and was described by The Times as "the last of the knuts." He is best known in...
  
  
• Billie Burke
  Billie Burke
  Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live...
  
  
• Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
  
  
• Arlene Dahl
  Arlene Dahl
  Arlene Carol Dahl is an American actress and former MGM contract star, who achieved notability during the 1950s. She is the mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas.-Early years:...
  
  
• Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
  
  
• Gloria DeHaven
  Gloria DeHaven
  Gloria Mildred DeHaven is an American actress and a former contract star for MGM.-Early life and career:DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven, both former vaudeville performers.She began her career as a child...
  
  
• Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich
  Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
  
  
• Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
  
  
• Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
  
• Marie Dressler
  Marie Dressler
  Marie Dressler was a Canadian-American actress and Depression-era film star. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930-31 in Min and Bill.-Early life and stage career:...
  
  
• Jimmy Durante
  Jimmy Durante
  James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...
  
  
• Buddy Ebsen
  Buddy Ebsen
  Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the movie...
  
  
• Nelson Eddy
  Nelson Eddy
  Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred...
  
  
• Cliff Edwards
  Cliff Edwards
  Cliff Edwards , also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929...
  
  
• Vera-Ellen
  Vera-Ellen
  Vera-Ellen was an American actress and dancer, principally celebrated for her filmed dance partnerships with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye and Donald O'Connor.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nanette Fabray
  Nanette Fabray
  Nanette Fabray is an American actress, comedienne, singer, dancer, and activist. She began her career performing in vaudeville as a child and then became a musical theatre actress during the 1940s and 1950s, winning a Tony Award in 1949 for her performance in Love Life...
  
  
• Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
  
  
• Ava Gardner
  Ava Gardner
  Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress.She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers . She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day...
  
  
• Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
  
  
• Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett was an American actress, comedienne, singer and dancer who originally performed on Broadway before being signed to a film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  
• Greer Garson
  Greer Garson
  Greer Garson, CBE was a British-born actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award...
  
  
• Paulette Goddard
  Paulette Goddard
  Paulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich...
  
  
• Dolores Gray
• Kathryn Grayson
  Kathryn Grayson
  Kathryn Grayson was an American actress and operatic soprano singer.From the age of twelve, Grayson trained as an opera singer. She was under contract to MGM by the early 1940s, soon establishing a career principally through her work in musicals...
  
  
• Jean Harlow
  Jean Harlow
  Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde" , Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time by the American Film Institute...
  
  
• Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Hepburn
  Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...
  
  
• Louis Jourdan
• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  
• Hedy Lamarr
  Hedy Lamarr
  Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress celebrated for her great beauty who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".Lamarr also co-invented – with composer George Antheil – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless...
  
  
• Angela Lansbury
  Angela Lansbury
  Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins...
  
  
• Vivien Leigh
  Vivien Leigh
  Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark...
  
  
• Oscar Levant
  Oscar Levant
  Oscar Levant was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Carole Lombard
  Carole Lombard
  Carole Lombard was an American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s...
  
  
• Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy
  Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles...
  
  
• Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
  
  
• Joan McCracken
  Joan McCracken
  Joan McCracken was an American dancer, actress, and comedian who became famous for her role as Silvie in the original 1943 production of Oklahoma!. By age 11, she was studying dance with Catherine Littlefield. She dropped out of high school to join Littlefield's ballet company...
  
  
• Ray McDonald
  Ray McDonald
  Raymondo Antoine "Ray" McDonald is an American professional football player who is a defensive end in the National Football League . McDonald played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he has played professionally for the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL.- Early years...
  
  
• Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...
  
  
• Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
  
  
• Ricardo Montalban
  Ricardo Montalbán
  Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG was a Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning six decades and many notable roles...
  
  
• Polly Moran
  Polly Moran
  Polly Moran was an American actress and comedian.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Moran started out in vaudeville, and widely toured North America, as well as various other locations that included Europe and South Africa...
  
  
• Jules Munshin
• George Murphy
  George Murphy
  George Lloyd Murphy was an American dancer, actor, and politician.-Life and career:He was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Irish Catholic extraction, the son of Michael Charles "Mike" Murphy, athletic trainer and coach, and Nora Long. He was educated at Peddie School, Trinity-Pawling School, and...
  
  
• Donald O'Connor
  Donald O'Connor
  Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule...
  
  
• Janis Paige
  Janis Paige
  Janis Paige is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. Born Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, she began singing in public from the age of five in local amateur shows...
  
  
• Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Torrey Powell was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jane Powell
  Jane Powell
  Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress.After rising to fame as a singer in her home state of Oregon, Powell was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer while still in her teens...
  
  
• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• Luise Rainer
  Luise Rainer
  Luise Rainer is a former German film actress. Known as The "Viennese Teardrop", she was the first woman to win two Academy Awards, and the first person to win them consecutively. She was discovered by MGM talent scouts while acting on stage in Austria and Germany and after appearing in Austrian...
  
  
• Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....
  
  
• Norma Shearer
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Musical Numbers

• Here's to the Girls - Fred Astaire from (Ziegfeld Follies) 1946
• My Pet Song - The Five Locest Sisters from (The Five Locest Sisters) 1928
• Singin' in the Rain (Finale) - Cliff Edwards and MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (The Hollywood Revue of 1929) 1929
• The Lockstep - Dodge Twins from (March of Time) 1930
• Clean as a Whistle - MGM Studio and Orchestra Girls Chorus from (Meet the Baron) 1933
• Ah, Sweet Mystery - Jeanette MacDonald / Nelson Eddy from (Naughty Marietta) 1935
• Hollywood Party - MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (Hollywood Party) 1934
• Follow in my Footsteps - Eleanor Powell / Robert Taylor / George Murphy / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (Broadway Melody of 1938) 1937
• Fascinating Rhythm - Eleanor Powell / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (Lady be Good) 1941
• Good Morning - Mickey Rooney / Judy Garland from (Babes in Arms) 1939
• Ten Percent Off - Jimmy Durante / Esther Williams from (This Time For Keeps)
• Tom and Jerry fame - Esther Williams from (Dangerous when Wet) 1953
• Finale of Bathing Beauty - Esther Williams from (Bathing Beauty) 1944
• Cleopatterer - June Allyson from (Till the Clouds Roll By) 1946
• The Three B's - June Allyson / Gloria DeHeaven / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (Best Foot Forward) 1943
• My Heart Sings - Kathryn Grayson from (Anchors Aweigh) 1945
• Shakin' the Blues Away - Ann Miller / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (Easter Parade) 1948
• Pass That Peace pipe (dance) - Joan MaCackern / Ray McDonald from (Good News) 1947
• On The Town - Gene Kelly / Frank Sinatra / Ann Miller / Vera-Ellen & 2 more person from (On the Town) 1949
• Baby, You Knock me out - Cyd Charisse / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus gentlemen from (It's Always Fair Weather) 1955
• Ballin' The Jack - Judy Garland / Gene Kelly from (For Me and My Gal) 1942
• Dance with Squeaky Newspaper - Gene Kelly from (Summer Stock) 1950
• Slaughter on 10th Avenue - Vera-Ellen / Gene Kelly / MGM Studio and orchestra from (Words and Music) 1948
• An American in Paris Ballet - Gene Kelly / Leslie Caron from (An American in Paris) 1951
• Fit as a Fiddle - Gene Kelly / Donald O'Connor from (Singin' in the Rain) 1952
• The Heather on the Hill - Gene Kelly / Cyd Charisse from (Brigadoon) 1954
• You Are my Lucky Star (Outtake) - Debbie Reynolds from (Singin' in the Rain) 1952
• You Stepped Out with the Dream - Tony Martin / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (Ziegfeld Girl) 1941
• A Lady Loves - Debbie Reynolds / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (I Love Melvin) 1953
• Thanks a Lot But No Thanks - Dolores Gray from (It's Always Fair Weather) 1955
• Two Faced Woman - Joan Crawford / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (The Torch Song) 1953
• Ma ma - Mickey Rooney dubbed with women from (Babes on Broadway) 1941
• Where or When - Lena Horne from (Words and Music) 1948
• Just One of Those Things - Lena Horne from (Panama Hattie) 1942
• Ain't it the Truth (Outtake) - Lena Horne from (Cabin in the Sky) 1943
• Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man - Ava Gardner from (Show Boat) 1951
• Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man - Lena Horne from (Till the Clouds Roll By) 1946
• I'm an Indian Too - with Judy Garland (Outtake) from (Annie get your Gun) 1950
• I Wish I Were In Love Again - Judy Garland / Mickey Rooney from (Words and Music) 1948
• Swing Mr Mendelssohn - Judy Garland / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus Girls from (Everybody Sing) 1938
• In Between - Judy Garland from (Love Finds Andy Hardy) 1938
• Follow the Yellow Brick Road - Judy Garland / The Munchkins from (The Wizard of Oz) 1939
• You're Off to See the Wizard - The Munchkins from (The Wizard of Oz) 1939
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland from (The Wizard of Oz) 1939
• How About You - Judy Garland / Mickey Rooney from (Babes on Broadway) 1941
• Minnie from Tridend - Judy Garland / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (Ziegfeld Girl) 1941
• Who - Judy Garland from (Till the Clouds Roll By) 1946
• March of the Doagies - Judy Garland / Ray Bolger / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (The Harvey Girls) 1946
• Get Happy - Judy Garland from (Summer Stock) 1950
• Mr Monotony - (Outtake) Judy Garland from (Easter Parade) 1948
• It Only Happens When I Danced with You - Fred Astaire / Ann Miller from (Easter Parade) 1948
• Drum Crazy - Fred Astaire from (Easter Parade) 1948
• The Girl Hunter - Fred Astaire / Cyd Charisse from (The Band Wagon) 1953
• Swing Trot - (main title) Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers /MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (The Barkleys of Broadway) 1949
• I Wanna be a Dancin' Man - Fred Astaire
• Anything You Can Do - Betty Hutton / Howard Keel from (Annie get your Gun) 1950
• Stereophonic Sound - Fred Astaire / Janis Paige from (Silk Stockings) 1957
• Shakin' the Blues Away - Doris Day / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (Love Me or Leave Me) 1956
• Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley from (Jailhouse Rock) 1957
• Gigi - Louis Jourdan from (Gigi) 1958
• That's Entertainment - Fred Astaire / Cyd Charisse / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from (The Band Wagon) 1953

The End

External links

• The Judy Garland Online Discography "That's Entertainment!" Pages