Tap Dance 1936 (Eleonore Powell)

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From the movie: BORN TO DANCE 1936
Eleonore Powell was arguably the best all around female tap dancer ever. I don't think anybody ever did this kind of lite and easy style of tap dancing better than her. She was one talented lady. Also seen briefly at the beginning and end of this scene is actress Virginia Bruce who started out as a chorus girl and was in fact one of the original "Goldwyn Girls" in 1930.
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Wow!!! like an effortless explosion of talent!!! Wish music was still so expressional in the daily culture of the fabrics of todays time

michaeldalton
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Absolutely the best female tap dancer ever, and ever since.

luvbach
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Luminous, beautiful smile, amazing talent & a genuinely nice person.

nadyarossi
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And Eleanor's reply was: "Yes, I am making a fool out of you. How did you guess?"

jackanthony
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The ways she could move her limbs defy description. It is as if her legs were joined to her pelvis with domes of silence. 'Tap dancing' is so inadequate as a term for how she operated.

esmeephillips
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The music is an improvisation on 'Love Me, Love My Pekinese', which Lucy James has sung earlier- an extra reason for her to be angry at being usurped by her understudy. Musicals were full of these subliminal uses of the score to underpin plot and character.

Life was imitating art here. Virginia had married John Gilbert and had been welcomed into the Metro aristocracy, but when Gilbert crashed in the early-talkie period, her star began to wane despite her famed looks. She was a knockout in 'The Great Ziegfeld', but when Irving Thalberg passed she lost her champion. Mayer let her wander off to Europe, multiple marriages and programmers; by 1942 she was supplying glamor to Abbott and Costello in 'Pardon My Sarong'. It was that year's second highest grosser but hardly the sort of production Miss Lucy James would have been seen in.

Far worse followed. Her swansong on screen in 1981 would be one of Andy Warhol's and Paul Morrissey's camp travesties, 'Madame Wang'.

esmeephillips