#Charisse and Astaire

[film-classics]

Movie: The Band Wagon (1953)

New York's most sought-after ballerina, Gabrielle "Gaby" Gerard (Cyd Charisse), stars in her first Broadway musical production, and one of the most exciting parts of the play is the 12-minute “Girl Hunt Ballet” dance sequence, in which Gaby plays the seductive vamp in a red hot sequined dress with an art deco style diamond choker.

The necklace is most likely costume jewelry as many of the sketches of Mary Ann Nyberg, the film's costume designer, still exist, and they all include Cyd's accessories in the sketches. During the 1970 David Weisz Co. MGM Public Auction held at the famed studio's backlot, most of the movie's props and costumes were sold, which probably included this choker.

[titaniumions]

jazz age

[poppingmary]

Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in “Band Wagon” - 1953

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[gatutor]

Fred Astaire-Cyd Charisse

I´m happy just to dance with you

[soft-homestyle]

Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire

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Stay cozy.

@soft-homestyle

[freddie-my-love]

Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings, 1957

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[davidhudson]

Cyd Charisse, March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008.

With Fred Astaire during the making of Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon (1953). Photo by John Swope.

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[mthguy]

And now for something completely different...

Choreographed by Michael Kidd, in the 1953 Vincente Minnelli-directed film The Band Wagon, "Dancing in the Dark," performed by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse, is indisputably one of the top dance performances of all time in a musical film... the very definition of poetry in motion.

[annoyinglyperfectartisan]

The Bandwagon, 1953

[poppingmary]

Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in “The Band Wagon” - 1953

[thesobsister]

“Rebel ‘Rouser�� by Duane Eddy, who died last week, age 86, is one of those monumental late-‘50s/early-‘60s guitar-driven instrumental hits that, like “Rumble” and “Walk Don’t Run,” got a ton of kids dancing and a bunch of others picking up guitars and starting bands.

Eddy is cited by a stack of big-name artists as a formative influence. His sound craved even by such pop outsiders as Art of Noise, who teamed with him for a revision of his hit “Peter Gunn.”

A video that owes not a little to the “Girl Hunt Ballet” in 1953’s The Band Wagon.

Eddy’s twangy guitar is likely to continue impelling guitarists to crank the reverb up on their amps.

aav.

[4mericana9othic]

Cyd Charisse in ‘Silk Stalkings’ 1957