[goat granny]

I never understood all the talk about Fred being the greatest dancer in movies....Gene Kelly had him beat by miles. Singing in the Rain is a classic, and Donald OConnor was excellent also...

[Robwin]

Just a footnote to this period. Stalinist Dalton Trumbo, of whose Communist affiliations there is no doubt, was brought in "out of the cold" by both Otto Preminger who hired him to write the screenplay for the execrable film Exodus, and by (even worse) Kirk Douglas to be screenwriter of the Communist themed Spartacus.

[freedumb2003]

>> never understood all the talk about Fred being the greatest dancer in movies....Gene Kelly had him beat by miles. Singing in the Rain is a classic, and Donald OConnor was excellent also...<<

Gene Kelly was athletic and assertive.

Fred Astaire was elegant — he made it look so easy, which is why it was so hard.

In the few movies Gene and Fred were together it was a visceral thrill to see them ply their art.

And art it was. And now a lost art. When you see a few episodes of ‘Dancing with the Stars” you realize just how badly dancing has degraded. Today’s dancers are simply dancing dogs — poodles with tutus.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Gene Kelly had him beat by miles.***

Snort: I like Gene Kelly but he NEVER danced on the ceiling!;-D

[verga]

I never understood all the talk about Fred being the greatest dancer in movies....Gene Kelly had him beat by miles. Singing in the Rain is a classic, and Donald OConnor was excellent also...

My wife says you are all wrong..... Ginger Rogers was the greatest dancer ever... She did everything Fred Astaire did backwards.... and in high heels.