From the movie: MELODY AND MOONLIGHT 1940
I’ve included the entire scene but the best dancing is at the start for about 20 seconds, and then at 2:35 for about 10 seconds, and then from 2:55 to about 3:20 and finally from 4:45 to the end. The dancers include Ray Hirsch and Patti Lacey along with actors Johnny downs and Jane Frazee among others.
For some reason they closed the dance halls so now people eat and watch tv and gov moan everyone's getting fat.
They paid a few dollar for 20 or more band members and could have space enough, to dance in bright dresses, had fun and a perfect time. Today one so called "star" earns several hundred thousand dollar per evening and millions in his live, as a few thousand people, squeezed together in a stadium, thinking it is great music and paying an unbelievable lifestyle with houses, flats, cars etc.
This normally only people could afford, who really brought work to thousands of people. What a change into the wrong direction in our life.
I remember my father, Will Rosenberg, of Newark, N.J. telling me that he won a dance contest in the 'peabody' dance contest. Fantastic footage from the movie and thank you Vintage Swing Dance. Iris Rosenberg-Cooper of Manassas, VA.
Wish people still talked like this and dressed like this to party's i'd be delighted to join in on this,even though i'm twelve and have never been to one I can tell it would be a delightful!
The story somewhat reflects Johnny Downs's real situation. He had partnered Eleanore Whitney in several musicals, but she quit to marry a lawyer and left a vacancy. It was not to be Kay (Jane Frazee) or anyone else. Eventually Johnny the hoofer morphed into Johnny the kids' show host on early TV.
see, this is what the new hen needs to look at, y'all see the guys? no one had a stupid beard! fucken hipsters sob's!
The preacher from Little House on the Prairie! That's who that wise guy was. Some 40 years earlier!
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What movie is this???
I wonder how many of these people had some hot, torrid sex after the dance party? Were the 1940's as innocent as most people believe? Hmm…..