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Two Old Guys Dancing
Videos2view ^ | 1955 | Hope/Cagney

Posted on 09/17/2015 2:46:07 PM PDT by gorush

Cagney and Bob Hope at a Friar's Club Meeting in 1955, back when actors were real performers; Hope was 52 and Cagney was 56.

This looks like it's from a movie, not a routine from a Friar's Club meeting. Doesn't take away from it though!

For the young folks, here is something you probably never seen before and, unfortunately, you may never see again.

For us older folks, this is the best of the best, and we had it for many years! This is a side of these two entertainers you hardly ever saw, but it shows you their enormous talent. Bob Hope, the best of comedians, and James Cagney, mostly cast as the bad guy, a gangster in the movies.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; History; Humor
KEYWORDS: celebrity; dance
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To: forgotten man

That’s because Cagney IS playing George M. Cohan, to Hope’s Eddie Foy, in this movie. Foy & Cohan were Broadway rivals.


21 posted on 09/17/2015 3:15:39 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: gorush

My Dad thought Bob Hope was the greatest. Not for his comedy, but for Hope entertaining the troops. Dad got to meet Bob and his wife when they sat next to us in a restaurant. He talked about that for years after.

It was such a dishonor back in the early 70s when Alan Alda and the writers on MASH basically crapped all over USO entertainers like Hope in one episode. That’s like crapping in your living room out of spite for your own profession.


22 posted on 09/17/2015 3:23:37 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: gorush

Great stuff!


23 posted on 09/17/2015 3:27:39 PM PDT by PROCON (GOD will NOT be mocked!)
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To: gorush

I always liked Gene Kelly’s Singing in the Rain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40ushYAaYA

I saw Kurt Browning’s ice skating excellent tribute. It seemed to only show up during some PBS telethons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtd7xq7URM


24 posted on 09/17/2015 3:31:33 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Kirkwood

I know his 1967 Christmas show in Ple Ku meant the world to me, just about forgot where I was and what I was there for for a couple of hours. Never will be another like him.


25 posted on 09/17/2015 4:03:09 PM PDT by Ace the Biker (I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
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To: Kirkwood
It was such a dishonor back in the early 70s when Alan Alda and the writers on MASH basically crapped all over USO entertainers like Hope in one episode. That’s like crapping in your living room out of spite for your own profession.

The whole point of MASH was to dishonour America. It's one of the foulest, most intense America-hating show ever made.

26 posted on 09/17/2015 4:23:15 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: gorush

Now I want to watch the whole movie! Thanks! :)


27 posted on 09/17/2015 4:28:52 PM PDT by missingwv
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To: gorush

“and it was Mary, Mary...” If I recall correctly, Hope began his career as a hoofer.


28 posted on 09/17/2015 4:34:07 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: gorush

Thank you so much!


29 posted on 09/17/2015 4:35:07 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kirkwood

My grandfather saw Hope perform in a bombed out airplane hangar in Regensberg. 50-odd years later, Grandpa still cherished the memory. ‘Tis why I donate to the USO, even today.


30 posted on 09/17/2015 4:43:36 PM PDT by wbill
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To: trisham
"“and it was Mary, Mary...”

Wasn't that Jack Benny?

31 posted on 09/17/2015 5:26:17 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

Saw it years ago on youtube, loved it. Saw most of the old films too. Homeschool will do that for you! :)


32 posted on 09/17/2015 5:42:28 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: gorush

While we’re on the subject of old guys dancing, I’d like to share this. Sammy Davis doing Mr. Bojangles, as Tom Jones sings. This is in 1970, his later performances can’t compare to it. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7RK7R-v6w8


33 posted on 09/17/2015 5:50:45 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Paradox

Even more amazing, he admitted he was in considerable pain when this scene was shot.


34 posted on 09/17/2015 6:50:01 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Cyman
That's one of my father's favorite movie scenes... he bemoans the fact that his knees are not up for such a "stunt" as dancing down a fight of stairs like James Cagney. Actually, I think he has asked surgeons that he was interviewing for the possibility of knee replacement surgery if when they were done, if he would be able to dance down stairs like James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Anyways, I forwarded him the link to the OP's video via email and he responded saying to check out The Gallant Hours... as it reminds him of his time in the USN.

I distinctively remember seeing this movie with him on TCM, as I recall noting the Fleet Admiral Flag flying at the beginning of the film, and that at the end of the film that flag the one passed to him as he is Piped Ashore.

The Gallant Hours Opening and Closing

35 posted on 09/17/2015 7:22:19 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: gorush

I think that was one of the songs (Hope and Cagney) that they were dancing to.

http://www.oldhollywoodfilms.com/2015/02/love-songs-marys-grand-old-name.html


36 posted on 09/17/2015 7:28:53 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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