The Band Wagon (1953) - The Girl Hunt Ballet - Fred Astaire - Cyd Charisse - Classic Musical Comedy

Michael Kidd choreography, setting designed by Oliver Smith, Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse generating gangster heat in Vincente Minnelli's THE BAND WAGON ('53).

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[kendrabrevard]

I Can see Smooth Criminal and you rock my world

[neeshespieces]

“She was bad. She was dangerous.” Two of Michael’s album names right there

[cawdor]

Cyd Charisse in my opinion was one of Hollywoods most under rated dancer/actress. I never get tired of watching her movies.

[tommoncrieff]

This is a masterpiece at every level. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone alive today who could dance like the background cast in this sequence let alone like Astaire and Charisse. The dialogue, music, art direction, costuming, and performances are all breathtaking. Charisse has pure animal magnetism combined with utter class, she is sensual and erotic in the artistic sense, not the commercial sense. She charges Astaire’s performance with sexuality and glamour on a nuclear scale.

[Miss-Placed.]

The happiness I feel when I watch this is sublime

[tgreening]

That look on her face when she's sitting at the bar. Like a Lioness contemplating what's about to become her next meal. He never stood a chance.

[gulmerton]

It shows that MJ had great taste, loved the classics and borrowed (with genius) from the very best of the best: Fred Astaire. When I see MJ in Smooth Criminal, I see Fred Astaire and vice versa. What more can be said?

[globalcitizenn]

Cyd Charisse is the best dancer to have walked the planet

[JaniaSanders]

8:02 is where Michael Jackson got that dance move from and did it in Rock My World in 2001

[QuicknStraight]

Cyd Charisse at her absolute best and most gorgeous.

[JETZcorp]

The cycle of nostalgia is fascinating. 80s nostalgia is hot right now, which is what brought some of us to Smooth Criminal. In the 80s, the hot deal was 50s nostalgia (think Happy Days, Back to the Future, and SMOOTH CRIMINAL). Now we're here, the 50s. But look closely. This video is a nostalgic love letter to the 1920s with speakeasies, prohibition gangsters and hardboiled noir detectives.

[natashafawzi]

Fred: “She came to me in sections... she was bad, she was dangerous”
MJ: “she came to me in sections... the girl was bad, the girl was dangerous”

Love them both

[EthalaRide]

5:02 that slide lives in my brain rent-free, I swear.

[alexanderwells]

The Girl Hunt Ballet is probably my favorite dance number

[americanitalianisrael]

You will never see this Exquisite Superb Talent on every level in anything Today. Never.

[ladyarthuria]

Sooo my friend asked me, "Why don't you like La La Land?.That movie so popular and good."

Hm..I can't watch La La Land anymore after watch Fred Astaire dancing.Real legend, real artist, fantastic.

[rama-annawallace]

Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire : perfection ! ❤❤❤
Those legs ... Wow !!! ❤❤❤

[andrewmiller]

Cyd Charisse she was so underrated as an actress and as a dancer. Cyd was an incredible talent. So much of the focus in dance scenes is put on Gene Kelly and Fred Astair when they have danced with Cyd. Kind of annoys me really because all eyes on Cyd Charisse. I can tell you for a fact when my family have watched the dance scenes in many of her films, the guys and the girls are commenting on, and watching Cyd not her male dance partners in the scenes.
She was beautiful, talented, she had a great figure, and boy oh boy what a set of legs she had on her. Rest in Peace Miss Cyd Charisse, you were beyond fantastic. Thank you for this video clip.

[PresidentialHP]

That french horn at 10:50 just wow. Hats off to Conrad Salinger.

[SceneByScott]

I was today years old when I realized Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago was doing Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon.

Not that anyone cares, but Astaire was 54 in this movie.