The director warned it was too dangerous and told him to simply walk down james cagney improvised the iconic stairway dance and ignored the advice and nailed it in one takepic.twitter.com/zshSvhiTfY— Interesting things (@awkwardgoogle) January 29, 2026
Jackie Chan said this scene was called the “world’s most dangerous stunt”
“It took me two weeks to get up the nerve to try it myself.”
“I slide down the side of building, which is slanted forty-five degrees, all the way to ground. Twenty-one stories.”pic.twitter.com/xPcpg9mrRe— FearlessFly (@fearlessfly001) January 29, 2026
Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
[Nicholas Brothers dance sequence from "Stormy Weather".]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8
