That’s Dancing! (1985): Cast
That’s Dancing! is a 1985 music documentary directed by Jack Haley Jr., starring James Cagney as From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (archive footage), Gene Kelly and Una Merkel. It runs 1 hour 45 minutes.
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 45m (105 min)
- Director
- Jack Haley Jr.
- Genres
- Music , Documentary
- Original language
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English - Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- After the credits
- No No extra scene
What Is That’s Dancing! About?
The premise of That’s Dancing! without spoilers.
The film traces the history of dance on screen, beginning with the earliest moving‑picture experiments after the invention of the camera, moving through the golden age of Hollywood song‑and‑dance movies from the 1920s to the 1960s, and concluding with the emergence of break‑dancing and MTV‑style music videos of the 1980s.
That’s Dancing! Themes & Keywords
· 19 tags- tap dancing
- entertainment documentary
- memory
- talking to the camera
- filmmaking as subject
- musical filmmaking as subject
- third in series
- part of series
- dance
- dancing
- retrospective
- punctuation in title
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- apostrophe in title
- song
- singing
- singer
- dancer
- studio compilation
- compilation
That’s Dancing! Cast & Characters
James Cagney leads the cast as From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (archive footage), with Gene Kelly and Una Merkel as From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage). Directed by Jack Haley Jr.; 91 actors are credited in all.
- Director Jack Haley Jr.
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James Cagney as From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (archive footage) -
Gene Kelly as themselves -
Una Merkel as From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage) -
Liza Minnelli as themselves
Also Starring in That’s Dancing!
· 87 more- Fred Astaire Themselves
- Shirley MacLaine
- Michael Jackson
- Ginger Rogers
- Judy Garland
- Debbie Reynolds
- George Chakiris Bernardo
- Busby Berkeley Themselves
- Russ Tamblyn
- Frances Langford From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
- Chita Rivera From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)
- Gwen Verdon Lola (archive footage)
- Jennifer Beals
- Robert Helpmann From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)
- Lyle Talbot Themselves
- Sammy Davis Jr. Themselves
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- Phil Silvers From 'Cover Girl' (archive footage)
- Tab Hunter From 'Damn Yankees' (archive footage)
- Buddy Ebsen From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
- Red Skelton From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
- George Murphy From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
- Esther Williams From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
- Danny Kaye From 'White Christmas' (archive footage)
- Arlene Dahl From 'Three Little Words' (archive footage)
- Shirley Temple
- Howard Keel From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
- Dick Powell
- Gloria DeHaven From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
- Ron Randell From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
- Kathryn Grayson From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
- Cyd Charisse
- Harold Nicholas From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)
- Lilyan Tashman From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
- Donald O'Connor
- Ray Bolger Themselves
- Ann Miller
- Ruby Keeler From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
- Wini Shaw From 'Gold Diggers of 1935' (archive footage)
- Dan Dailey
- David Winters 'West Side Story' dancer
- Fayard Nicholas From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)
- Paula Kelly From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)
- Harve Presnell From 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' (archive footage)
- Patsy Ruth Miller From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
- Taina Elg From 'Les Girls' (archive footage)
- Betty Garrett Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)
- Mikhail Baryshnikov Themselves
- Jane Powell
- Bobby Van From 'Small Town Girl' and 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
- Bob Fosse
- Eleanor Powell
- Sid Silvers From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
- Vera-Ellen
- Michael Kidd From 'It's Always Fair Weather' (archive footage)
- Harvey Evans 'West Side Story' dancer
- Juliet Prowse From 'Can-Can' (archive footage)
- Francesca Bellini 'West Side Story' dancer
- Tamara Toumanova From 'Tonight We Sing' (archive footage)
- Robert Banas 'West Side Story ' dancer
- Moira Shearer From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)
- Vera Zorina From 'On Your Toes' (archive footage)
- Alex Romero From 'On the Town' (archive footage)
- Reiko Sato From 'Kismet' (archive footage)
- Bill Robinson
- Tucker Smith 'West Side Story' dancer
- Bert Michaels 'West Side Story' dancer
- Lauren Peterson Ballet student with Gene Kelly
- Leroy Daniels From 'The Band Wagon' (archive footage)
- Zizi Jeanmaire From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)
- Rudolf Nureyev
- Yuriko From 'The King and I' (archive footage)
- Tony Mordente 'West Side Story' dancer
- Anna Pavlova
- Barbara Hancock From 'Finian's Rainbow' (archive footage)
- Charles Laskey From 'On Your Toes' (archive footage)
- Carol Haney
- Erik Bruhn From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)
- Gina Trikonis 'West Side Story' dancer
- Loïe Fuller
- Tommy Abbott 'West Side Story' dancer
- David Bean 'West Side Story' dancer
- Carole D'Andrea 'West Side Story' dancer
- Eliot Feld 'West Side Story' dancer
- Marine Jahan From 'Flashdance' (archive footage)
- Susan Oakes 'West Side Story' dancer
- Scooter Teague
- Isadora Duncan
That’s Dancing! Also Known As
3 alternative titles, including “¡Esto sí es bailar!” and “Tánc, a csodák csodája”.
- Also known as
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- ¡Esto sí es bailar!
- Tánc, a csodák csodája
- Quando Hollywood Dança
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That's Entertainment! 1974 -
That's Entertainment! III 1994 -
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That’s Dancing! FAQ: Cast, Runtime & Release Date
Runtime, release date, director, cast and post-credit scenes of That’s Dancing!, each answered in a sentence.
How long is That’s Dancing!?
That’s Dancing! runs 1 hour 45 minutes (105 minutes).
When was That’s Dancing! released?
That’s Dancing! was released on January 18, 1985.
Who directed That’s Dancing!?
That’s Dancing! was directed by Jack Haley Jr.
More films by Jack Haley Jr. Who is in the cast of That’s Dancing!?
That’s Dancing! stars James Cagney as From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (archive footage), Gene Kelly and Una Merkel as From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage), among 91 credited actors.
Does That’s Dancing! have a post-credit scene?
No. That’s Dancing! has no extra scene during or after the credits.
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