Holiday for Strings! - Cyd Charisse
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Gorgeous Cyd closes here with a lovely composition by David Rose! Beautiful Karin Booth, and Margaret O'Brien, (who received top billing,) round out the cast. Also, this introduced Mr. Danny Thomas!
Those of you who want The Unfinished Dance on DVD, raise your hand.
I do..I hope that this MGM movie musical will eventually be on dvd..very soon.
Great!
THIS is what the theater should be; full, orchestras, singers AND dancers (not singer-dancers), a stage the size of Brooklyn & fabulous costumes!
Thanks for the reminder of how goo we had it...and how good we can have it, if we finally wake up & demand a return to artistic greatness.:)
And a lot of lip synching takes place on stages now.
Dancing with the Stars can't touch this. May I get a second, please?
Beautiful dancing!....and even cute little Margaret O'Brien!
Сид Чарисс красавица и талантливая актриса, море обаяния и женственности. Другой такой нет и не было за всю историю мирового кино.
Я полностью с вами согласен и спасибо! Она всегда будет самой красивой и блестящей исполнительницей!
Вот одно из самых экзотических видео Cyd! Я надеюсь, что вы можете увидеть это!
С наилучшими пожеланиями,
Varadero
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@@varadero1839 да я видел его и раньше, и смотрел весь фильм полностью. Это видео есть здесь на Ютубе.
Look at that set & the lighting. Wow.
Man was she gorgeous!
Beautiful. !!!
Cyd Charisse shows her prowess dancing in a leotard only. No costumes that help dancers with effects, skirts flying adding grace to the movements. Cyd is perfect without anything else but her sculptural body in a leotard!
This is one of my Mom's favorite films. I'm Happy She was able to see it before She passed away.
This is also a VERY FUN Dance Sequence.
Oh, I LOVE this compositon! Both lively and graceful, one of the first I've ever listened to at my childhood! And Cyd dispense many comments, awesome! Thanks a million, John!
This production is from the 1947 movie, "The Unfinished Dance." It's a great film for ballet afficionados! Also, fans of "The Bad Seed," and Patty McCormack may enjoy this. A lovely, talented child stops at nothing to assist her idol in her quest for success. Kinda dark, but lovely Cyd makes up for a lot! Best wishes!
She was not only an incredible dancer but she was gorgeous!
Cyd, the most beautiful, athletic, and talente dancer!!
I just watched this on TCM. I was surprised by Karin Booth. I'd never heard of her before. She was so beautiful - I'm surprised she wasn't a bigger star.
David Rose later became the music director for another M-G-M exile on television, Red Skelton. "Holiday for Strings" was a great favorite of Skelton's, so Rose morphed it into theme of "The Red Skelton Show" on NBC and "The Red Skelton Hour" on CBS.
What a beautiful presentation and performance of this classic instrumental gem. If only our younger generation could be so inspired to achieve such talent. Oh what great things they could do to stir the souls of our world today. Thanks for posting this wonderful performance.
Hi Mr. Martin,
You're welcome! Cyd was always sensational, but glad I found this one! She usually played semi-sympathetic characters, but here, though a brilliant dancer, plays kind of a bitchy disinterested role; it's fun to see her not so very nice! She's great fun here:
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Thank you again- you always showcase wonderful clips from these glorious musicals. And this one is something special: an early showcase for Cyd Charisse- of the blacker-than-black hair and the mile-long legs, who was still 5 years away from "Singin' in the Rain," 6 years away from "Bandwagon," etc. But the beauty, the grace, and the en-pointe terpsichory are already in evidence here. And this finale was a feast for the Technicolor cameras!! Cheers!!
David Rose composed this music, "Holiday For Strings" which became a million-seller on the pop music charts and the theme for the Red Skelton TV Show in the 1950s. David Rose and Red Skelton became close personal friends at MGM in the 1940s.
I'm sorry that I never got to meet David Rose..when he was still with us..I would love to have told him..how much I love this tune..that he created.
Thank you! I'm beginning to wonder if there will ever be a renaissance of works like these. We can only hope. As always, your insight continues to educate and be intriguing!
Wow, that was real beautiful, and a great treat, and Cyd Charisse," showed what she got". Jerome from Florida just a great performance!
Hi Eisen J Eisen,
Thanks so much for writing about this kind of obscure "Cyd" clip! Though Cyd could never be faulted in the dance area, this film's worth seeing if only for her unusual portrayal of a talented, yet mindless "ditz!" Jerome, if you like dance, suspect you'll really enjoy this film! Thanks for writing!
varadero
Thank you, i loved "Holiday for Strings" and Cyd Charisse brings out the best of it!
@JubalCalif - Exactly!!!!!!!!! You are RIGHT on!! Same history for me!!!!! I NEVER got hear the entire piece on the show, so it's GREAT to hear this and all the other various posts and versions of this marvelous piece of music - like you, it brings back to me a GREAT show and all the childhood memories that go along!! Thankyou varadero1839! LOVE it!!!
@Noveltooner Thank you so much for this information! I used to watch Red Skelton on TV! I never realized that Mr. Rose had incorporated this melody into the theme music for Mr. S! I knew it was familiar, but never did make the connection. Life's a funny old thing! From not recalling where I first heard this beautiful theme, and now I'd be lucky to even be able to carry the sheetmusic! Thanks so much! Grateful for your post!
@143AC Hi 143AC! Thanks for your comment! This was pretty early "Cyd," and even earlier "Margaret!" Despite their mutual youth, I think they did rather well for themselves.
You're welcome! This song was one of my favorites too, but I'd never seen it included in a dance sequence until Cyd! It brings back many memories for me too!
@JubalCalif Your memory is much better than mine! I used to love the Red Skelton show also, but can't remember this as being the theme song. I'm elated that it brought back good memories! Guess I was too busy waiting to see what Mr. S would be up to next in his incredible comic roles. Thanks so much for writing!
@BalletBabyBoy Thanks for your comment! Apparently this was choreographed by David Lichine. Until reading your mention, I was not really sure who'd been responsible. Cyd could pretty much handle anything dance-related, by anyone. I miss her!
Thank you kind friend! Granted as you said, she was years away from some of her greatest triumphs, but she proved her prowess even here in the mid-late '40s! As always, very grateful for your learned comment, and notice!!
I love you Cyd Charisse
What a dancer!!!! 🐶🐶🐶🐶
she is so fluid...one of the magnificent dancers. I love her dances with Ricardo Montalban best
Me too! Many thanks!
Enjoy these old time movie Ballet Dancers,like Cyd Charrise,Mora Shearer and Lesli Caron..Todays ballet dancers have evolved into tall,skinny dancing "Clones" with no personality..
I recall seeing this film when it first came out, and loving it, (as I did ALL MGM musicals.) I was just a kid, but it introduced me to the music of "Swan Lake",...and I went to my grade school's excursion (in San Francisco) to the Opera House to see scenes from Swan Lake. ( I was terribly disappointed,.... the barren stage was drab, brown and painted;...no mirrored floor, as in the film. (Dancing WAS wonderful, however.)
Oh, yes, I had my folks buy me the MGM soundtrack album.
My grateful thanks to you, Isolar! Cyd's brilliant dancing, the color of the costumes, and the choreography seem to be almost dream-like. We can only hope there will be similar productions in our future. Best regards.
Beautiful.
Kristen Przybylski It's certainly different! Cyd, always an incredible dancer, really proved herself here. This was a very modern song for the time, and yet she managed to make it a new classic! Thanks so much for your kind comment.
varadero
the color is stunning!
Wait , does anyone know if this is supposed to be in black and white? It sort of has that "hand-painted" look to it.
Hi ladypodtron,
Thanks so much for noticing! To reply to this, and another recent post of yours here's a "blurb" from one of the preliminary descriptions of this film: "M-G-M's Gorgeous Technicolor Drama!
Romance! Spectacle! Music!"
So, unless MGM was fibbing, guess it really was in Technicolor! I'm glad it was! Cyd in black, and the rest of the cast looking like a rainbow made this clip really enticing!
Best wishes,
varadero
wow ! very cool, Thanks for your reply.
I'm so happy i can share these thoughts of mine with all of you guys! Actually i've been learning quite a lot with your answers to my posts too. Tks loads!!!
I said there was quite a difference. Ellie was a star dancer, with the whole production built around her talents. Cyd was a companion dancer to Fred or Gene. She was very good at that but when the whole production number is built around her dancing, she's miles behind. And take a look at Fred and Ellie in "Broadway Melody of 1940". That's the summit.
I wonder if any dance company ever had a corps de ballet that big.
True or false: the collaboration of "holiday for strings" was also from that film a theme song for NBC and CBS for the Red Skelton show.
Yes.."Holiday For Strings"is the theme song for the NBC and CBS TV versions of"The Red Skelton Hour"/"The Red Skelton Show"..Ronnie.
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Obviously adapted for the choreographic sequence, but from a musical standpoint, I vastly prefer the original as David Rose originally released in on records. In 1955, he unaccountably tampered with this piece again, hitherto a perfect masterpiece, into something that I for one cannot see the purpose in. He did the same with his "Gay Spirits" which was one of his best and most iconic selections, so utterly different as to not even the deserve the title of the original. But to each his/her own, as they say.
Choreography by David Lichine. Note that there is nothing Soviet or Balanchine about this.
So what movie is this from? I've never seen it.
The standards will return once the people demand them. Unfortunately, 20+ years of MTV (not to mention greedy producers who want to provide little entertainment for exorbitant fees) have lowered the bar so much it will take a very strong, determined effort on the part of the audience.
The mass audiences today are more attracted to personality than talent.
I love both Eleanor and Cyd's dancing. I disagree that Cyd was "miles behind" in her solo work. If you look at her ballet work in The Band Wagon, or in Silk Stockings (the "red blues" number) or her work in Meet Me in Las Vegas or her dance with the sword in Sombrero or... anyway, the list goes on. She was fantastic. Eleanor was too. Each incomparable in different ways. Btw, I think of Fred and Eleanor's duet as 'a summit' of dance, not 'the summit' because it was one kind of dance.
Can someone please tell me what movie this is from?
I posted this. It's from "The Unfinished Dance," from 1947. This is a wonderful clip of Cyd, an unusually sombre Cyd performance; she usually played sweetheart roles, not so much here! I hope you enjoyed this, and I'm grateful to have heard from you!
Best wishes,
varadero
varadero1839 Thanks for the film reference! I'm not much of a fan of Holiday for Strings. There are many more imaginative light music melodies. But can't knock success either.
Hi Roger Wilco,
I found your comment just this evening. I'm glad you wrote! Though the composition is a little frenetic, I'm such a big "Cyd" fan, I couldn't help but upload it. Thanks for writing!
varadero
My great pleasure, varadero! Cheers and a long happy life.
Who was the choreographer ?
Russian born David Lichtenstein, (Lichine.)
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Cyd Charisse was a great dancer. But compare her work her to Eleanor Powell in "Rosalie" or "Lady Be Good". There's quite a difference.
It's idiotic to compare Cyd Charisse with Eleanor Powell. One was a ballet-orientated dancer and the other the Queen of tap.
You're right. But Eleanor Powell, though known primarily for tap dancing, did dance on pointe in ballet productions in her movies, however she was not as elegant in her moves as was Cyd. Eleanor danced in a ballet production in the films "Broadway Melody of 1935" and in "Broadway Melody of 1940." Cyd Charisse stated in her autobiography that although she was primarily a ballet dancer, she could do a mean tap as she did in some of her films. Cyd does a flamenco tap in the films "The Kissing Bandit" and "Fiesta." She also did some tap in It's Always Fair Weather but that number was deleted from the release print. Cyd stated that she would have done more tap in her films but for her knees that would swell as a result of her attempting to film a tap number.
Crazy choreography for Cyd.
@JubalCalif - Exactly!!!!!!!!! You are RIGHT on!! Same history for me!!!!! I NEVER got to hear the entire piece on the show, so it's GREAT to hear this and all the other various posts and versions of this marvelous piece of music - like you, it brings back to me a GREAT show and all the childhood memories that go along!! Thankyou varadero1839! LOVE it!!!