Vera is vastly underrated nowadays. She was one of the greatest movie dancers ever. Very disciplined and extremely versatile, doing everything from ballet to tap expertly. Not to mention unbelievably cute. She's in the highest echelon, a peer with Cyd Charisse.
Vera-Ellen: one of only two people who could keep up with Fred Astaire (Eleanor Powell was the other). Fred was incredible, making the difficult look easy, but Vera-Ellen had a wider range of styles she could do equally well. She was simply the best.
Vera Ellen is number one, The best dancer in the world both classically trained and acrobatic, tap master Not Eleamnor Powell, sorry, I put her after Cyd Charisse, even tho Charisse never did tap, she could have and did everything else beautifully
She makes it all look so easy!...kinda like Astaire. The very best can pull that off. Side note: that gold lamé dress nearly floored the retro-fashion geek in me. 😍
Surely there's some sexism in that statement somewhere, isn't there ? Can't we find any ? After all, we know that everyone was sexist and racist 70 years ago, don't we !
@@mofa9745 YOU are the one bringing in negativity where no one else was. YOU are the one trying to stir problems. YOU are the one who brought up sexism (?) and racism (?!) when no one was talking about that. Everyone was having fun, laughing at the flawless humour of the dialogue and YOU brought your party pooper attitude. Yet I bet you’re the type to complain about triggered snowflakes! Pot calling the kettle black…
she definitely lost weight since this movie which was very early in her career.she was significantly skinnier in white christmas, so if she wasn't anorexic, she was definitely severely underweight.
Houston She’s still the youngest Radio City Rockette (age 16 in 1937) and made her Broadway debut in 1939. “A Connecticut Yankee” in 1943 got her a contract from Sam Goldwyn. Sang passably on stage but was always dubbed in film. Though there is a youtube reunion of her with her “By Jupiter” fellow player, Ray Bolger where she sings on his show. Definitely lost weight in the 1950’s. Fred Astaire in his auto bio commented that she was always pushing in on her cheeks. Biggest tragedy was her losing her only daughter to SIDS at 3 months in 1963. She withdrew from public life and died in 1981 at 60
@@esmeephillips5888 You know this? How? I would say the better explanation, since anorexia was unknown at the time, is that Vera-Ellen abused diet pills much like Judy Garland, hence the dramatic weight loss (plus tight corseting in some costumes) in this film and her later films. Diet pills would cause dramatic weight loss over a shorter period of time than anorexia would. Films during this era were shot over a period of weeks rather than months or a couple of years.
So much talent here! Something that also impresses me is how so much motion and action takes place in a small space. For example: the illusion of people running a long distance when they are actually dancing within a few square feet. All the dancers here and the choreographer deserve a lot of praise---and they have it from me! Well done!
Vera Ellen will always be one of my all time favorite movie dancers. She could do it all and her technique in so many genres of dance is impeccable. Astonishing. I wish she would have been given more credit. And more films. She was also tiny but so amazingly strong and athletic, yet with the ability to make it all look so easy and light. There will never be another like Vera Ellen.
Lots of crash dieting, even anorexia, took its toll. I would guess she abused diet pills like so many women of her generation and is likely a better explanation given how widespread diet pills were. You can see her weight fluctuating dramatically even in the same film including "On the Town." Some scenes she looks normal, as in this number, while in others she is shockingly thin. It's not simply because she was corseted in. She is literally half as wide as Ann Miller, who was hardly overweight. She had a small frame, but not that small without severe food deprivation.
Benzedrine coffee was a big thing in professional circles in those days, too. Amphetamine abuse was common. “Diet pills” was a euphemism. Businessmen crashed and burned a lot.
Unfortunately she was underrated then and I think more appreciated now. (but who knows - what goes on behind the doors back then - maybe she just said NO!)
This is MeToo bullshit. She was never under rated. She was a top dancing star back then. It's just that now, for some unknown reason, she's become interesting to people who have no idea who she was or what she did.
Jim Stark. No need for name calling. She was born with the talent to dance, and with training developed the skill to do it very well. Try using your brain and think before you write insults.
There are scores of dancers today who do the same. It's not difficult to find both talented and trained dancers pretty much everywhere. Maybe Jim Stark's name calling was unnecessary, but the original comment seemed to be without purpose.
Nothing to do with class. You cherry picked one choreographed piece from a movie to compare it to another cherry picked example today. There were burlesque dancers then and there are the same today. There are plenty of people doing the same and more than Vera did.
Nothing to do with class. You cherry picked one choreographed piece from a movie to compare it to another cherry picked example today. There were burlesque dancers then and there are the same today. There are plenty of dancers today doing the same and better than Vera did. some are just not exposed enough to know it.
If the stars of M-G-M musicals were like superheroes, then Vera-Ellen was like Supergirl in this one. The athletic abilities which she displayed in this dance number are quite impressive. And great fun to watch also.
I love discovering talents like hers pretty much by accident. She's a bit before my time and I've never explored all these great musicals. There's no denying her brilliance, that's for sure.
She is good one of the very best check her out if u not familiar with her work Obviously White Christmas and i remember dancing with the also very great Donald O Conner in ? Call me Madam ? Dancers are athletes and put in hard work to become as if by overnight magic Great thanx for posting
@ARbenSRbarGR Totally agree with you. Watching White Christmas now. She is great in the dance numbers, but is so thin. She looks really good, in this movie. 5 years can do a lot, but there is a huge difference.
Actually she and Doris Day were friends , attending the same Cincinnati ballroom dance studio for a while. Also, she was actually Day’s senior by 1 year(Vera Ellen-b.2/16/21 Doris Day-b.4/3/22)
The "fight" scene of this is amazing. Equal parts humor athetisim and precision. No one was an eighth of an inch off. They couldnt be. When hwood had talent!
I am 90% certain that this film was choreographed by Gene Kelly & Hermes Pan. -------Note, Vera is most certainly NOT TOO SKINNY HERE! ------------------WolfSky9
There's "hot, and there's "sizzling hot." Vera Ellen was "sizzling hot" in this number, and in many others as well. She was the finest and sexiest female dancer I ever saw.
I am 19 yrs old. This movie is my fave movie of Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra together. But I gotta say, this scene is one of my favorites. The talent shown is purely awesome. I haven't seen anyone in my age which matches this one.
YES!! The messaging to society that women have to be EVERYTHING to be even acceptable or average has been going on forever and still is and it never ceases to make me catch my breath in shock (though nothing should be less shocking at this point). If no one "bought it" it wouldn't matter but men expect this of women and women expect it of themselves...and I'm very grateful I do not buy it and live alone in the woods. Lol. Seriously.
Such pretty hair! Almost bet it was natural wavy, as well? In the way she carries it, a womans' "mane" says a lot about her, if you will pay attention? And, the eyes only confirm such! (Can't always trust the smile by itself, though: Dentures do wonders....!)
She apparently maintained the 'smallest waist in Hollywood'. 17 inches which you can see when she is lifted by her dance partners. Their hands more than meet around her waist.
Can you imagine how awful it would have been if she was young in this day and age, with critical internet comments and such. People are so mean when they hide behind computer screens
+SassPrincess Of the Sassy Kingdom She was anorexic to keep her weight down. In fact it caused so much premature aging in upper body that is why she is covered in "White Christmas". I grew up watching her films and in awe by her hummingbird swift toes and teeny waist. Three Little words is my fav. with Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. RIP Vera.
That comment about her having to cover her chest in White Christmas because of premature aging due to anorexia has actually been debunked. There are photos of her at the same time wearing dresses that exposed that area and she looks just fine. Obviously, she was anorexic, just that part about her having to be covered wasn't true.
Jenn Powell I can believe that,(being debunked about the covering up that is). I don't know,(I could figure it out, if I wasn't lazy XD, as to what was going on in her life at that time?), what personal issues she was dealing with? She was married to a Rothchild and I imagine that brings a lot of pressure...but also she lost 2 children and after the second died she withdrew from public life. Can't say I blame her. She seemed like she had a kindly position/personality? Something about her face seemed like she was not a snob,(does this make sense?), at least I hope not because I really like her and was reared on her dancing....even more than Rogers, Miller or Cherise. She doesn't get the recognition for her talent as she should, IMO :) My parents would always mistake her for Mitzi Gaynor....but there is an obvious difference to me. :) Bisous!
Now I realize why the producers felt compelled to cast an NYC Ballet Star in the Broadway revival (which I saw BEFORE checking out the movie) and why the beefed up the dancing bits to justify the Ballet casting... great Production!
@nuzzi7 This was made in 1949, before the anorexia had set in as much. In White Christmas, made in 1954, you can see the difference in her legs. I did not think anything of it when I first saw the movie. Now, after reading about her problem, I am more aware of it. Also in White Christmas, she wears high collars to cover her neck because her neck skin was beginning to sag. You don't think about that because the movie is set in cold Vermont, but Rosemary Clooney does not wear high collars.
Vera Ellen was considered the best female dancer of her time; as well as the hardest working dancer by her peers. Co-stars,directors,choreographers etc have said she was a joy to work with never complained and was patient/kind with everyone. She made one more picture after 'White Christmas' and retired for good. Sadly she passed away in her early sixties.
In White Christmas Danny Kaye has a number called Choreography, talking about that versus dancing. This number is more choreography. Vera-Ellen was brilliant in White Christmas. I think this was the difference between Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly (I prefer Astaire). Fred danced; Gene did choreography. Looks like his work here.
This was awesome! But you can tell really she had been in a fight by the way she was holding her hands in her “fighting stance.” Super fun to watch tho! Such skill.
Vera Ellen was pure dancing genius. First time I've seen this clip.... Delightful. It's pretty much accepted that she battled anorexia. What the heck, we all battle something! I'm just sorry she couldn't stay with us longer!
Vera is vastly underrated nowadays. She was one of the greatest movie dancers ever. Very disciplined and extremely versatile, doing everything from ballet to tap expertly. Not to mention unbelievably cute. She's in the highest echelon, a peer with Cyd Charisse.
Vera-Ellen: one of only two people who could keep up with Fred Astaire (Eleanor Powell was the other). Fred was incredible, making the difficult look easy, but Vera-Ellen had a wider range of styles she could do equally well. She was simply the best.
when i saw her hop en pointe my mouth dropped
Not many could pull off that kind of broad comedy and dance so very well at the same time.
Vera Ellen is number one, The best dancer in the world both classically trained and acrobatic, tap master
Not Eleamnor Powell, sorry, I put her after Cyd Charisse, even tho Charisse never did tap, she could have and did everything else beautifully
The entire movie is underrated
She makes it all look so easy!...kinda like Astaire. The very best can pull that off.
Side note: that gold lamé dress nearly floored the retro-fashion geek in me. 😍
Amazing performance 👍👍👍
Vera Ellen looks so healthy here.
Lovely legs.
A marvellous dancer and a very pretty Lady. ❤️
Its got the Tom and Jerry Vibe to it
"She's got to be brilliant, beautiful and talented. Just an average girl." That always cracks me up.
+EvilTreeFrogs I've seen this movie many times and I never noticed that bit of irony. Thanks for pointing it out! Funny.
@@larrydirtybird yep, the whole bit is full of oxymoronic phrases, like"she's a frail, flower-like creature... but oh boy, what an athlete!" Lol. :)
Surely there's some sexism in that statement somewhere, isn't there ? Can't we find any ? After all, we know that everyone was sexist and racist 70 years ago, don't we !
@@mofa9745 YOU are the one bringing in negativity where no one else was. YOU are the one trying to stir problems. YOU are the one who brought up sexism (?) and racism (?!) when no one was talking about that.
Everyone was having fun, laughing at the flawless humour of the dialogue and YOU brought your party pooper attitude. Yet I bet you’re the type to complain about triggered snowflakes!
Pot calling the kettle black…
and "frail", although that wasn't demonstrated 🙃
She looked so great in this movie......
Whoever told her she was too fat and caused her anorexic future should have been stoned!!
Studio heads most likely :(
She did not have anorexia. This is a retro-rumor.
she definitely lost weight since this movie which was very early in her career.she was significantly skinnier in white christmas, so if she wasn't anorexic, she was definitely severely underweight.
Houston She’s still the youngest Radio City Rockette (age 16 in 1937) and made her Broadway debut in 1939. “A Connecticut Yankee” in 1943 got her a contract from Sam Goldwyn. Sang passably on stage but was always dubbed in film. Though there is a youtube reunion of her with her “By Jupiter” fellow player, Ray Bolger where she sings on his show. Definitely lost weight in the 1950’s. Fred Astaire in his auto bio commented that she was always pushing in on her cheeks. Biggest tragedy was her losing her only daughter to SIDS at 3 months in 1963. She withdrew from public life and died in 1981 at 60
@@esmeephillips5888 You know this? How? I would say the better explanation, since anorexia was unknown at the time, is that Vera-Ellen abused diet pills much like Judy Garland, hence the dramatic weight loss (plus tight corseting in some costumes) in this film and her later films. Diet pills would cause dramatic weight loss over a shorter period of time than anorexia would. Films during this era were shot over a period of weeks rather than months or a couple of years.
So much talent here! Something that also impresses me is how so much motion and action takes place in a small space. For example: the illusion of people running a long distance when they are actually dancing within a few square feet. All the dancers here and the choreographer deserve a lot of praise---and they have it from me! Well done!
And me! There was so much brilliant stuff in this routine.
So good to see Vera-Ellen's legs looking well muscled and beautiful. They became so thin later.
That was my thought too. She was so thin in White Christmas!
The precision required in the choreography of the 'fight' scenes, so that she doesn't kick anybody in the jaw, is mind-boggling! Bravo to all! 😮
Jo Blow
😄 💃 😆
Wonderful extension and amazing in here, she can do ballet and act with funny expressions, she can do it all.
Miss Turnstiles, Tammie.
She was very effective in the ballet sequence without being a Balanchine pinhead. Really, just lovely.
Miss Turnstiles. The modern subway systems need to bring back this tradition.
Now it would be a 300 lb ghettopotamus.
God bless Vera-Ellen in her best years the Best Hollywood dancer the world has ever seen !!!!! Thank you Vera
1:45 If a man don’t propose to me like that I don’t want it
Vera Ellen will always be one of my all time favorite movie dancers. She could do it all and her technique in so many genres of dance is impeccable. Astonishing. I wish she would have been given more credit. And more films. She was also tiny but so amazingly strong and athletic, yet with the ability to make it all look so easy and light. There will never be another like Vera Ellen.
One of the best dancers ever. She was great.
Weren’t films good in those times? Look where we are now. Ugh
The music, the TV, the films...all signs of what they've done to our society.
Vera-Ellen is greatly underrated and under appreciated. She deserves a place as one of the greats of Golden Era Hollywood.
Hypnotizing.. Vera Ellen's a gem. I'm sorry for her and her baby. I'm sorry for what happened to her!
I just realized her legs were more full. When she played in White Christmas, she was extremely skinny!😮
Jung Shooketh I think I remember reading somewhere that she suffered from anorexia for many years before she passed away.
Battled with anorexia sadly most of her life
Lots of crash dieting, even anorexia, took its toll. I would guess she abused diet pills like so many women of her generation and is likely a better explanation given how widespread diet pills were. You can see her weight fluctuating dramatically even in the same film including "On the Town." Some scenes she looks normal, as in this number, while in others she is shockingly thin. It's not simply because she was corseted in. She is literally half as wide as Ann Miller, who was hardly overweight. She had a small frame, but not that small without severe food deprivation.
She looks good here, but she was very thin in White Christmas. Was watching that this weekend and thought she was way too thin.
Benzedrine coffee was a big thing in professional circles in those days, too. Amphetamine abuse was common. “Diet pills” was a euphemism. Businessmen crashed and burned a lot.
Unfortunately she was underrated then and I think more appreciated now. (but who knows - what goes on behind the doors back then - maybe she just said NO!)
This is MeToo bullshit. She was never under rated. She was a top dancing star back then. It's just that now, for some unknown reason, she's become interesting to people who have no idea who she was or what she did.
Vera-Ellen is really an amazing dancer!
The only person who comes close is Paula Abdul. She has a lot of similarities with Vera-Ellen in her dancing.
Vera Ellen was just plain great- a born dancer and athlete. Compare her to the pathetic twerkers of today.
Jim Stark. No need for name calling. She was born with the talent to dance, and with training developed the skill to do it very well. Try using your brain and think before you write insults.
There are scores of dancers today who do the same. It's not difficult to find both talented and trained dancers pretty much everywhere. Maybe Jim Stark's name calling was unnecessary, but the original comment seemed to be without purpose.
No, it's about class. Something missing in today's "performers". Twerking is just a bunch of hoes.
Nothing to do with class. You cherry picked one choreographed piece from a movie to compare it to another cherry picked example today. There were burlesque dancers then and there are the same today. There are plenty of people doing the same and more than Vera did.
Nothing to do with class. You cherry picked one choreographed piece from a movie to compare it to another cherry picked example today. There were burlesque dancers then and there are the same today. There are plenty of dancers today doing the same and better than Vera did. some are just not exposed enough to know it.
Didn’t know I needed to see Vera Ellen beat a bunch of men up in white shorts via dance sequence today but i definitely did
She was a phenomenon, and sparkling to watch.
Gee, she's wonderful. That my heart melt😍😍😍❤️
She’s just plain fantastic….I continue to watch White Christmas over and over just to watch her dance. Especially love the “Mandy” number
This is one of Vera's best all-time dances. Simply marvelous. Thanks so much for posting this. Peace.
If the stars of M-G-M musicals were like superheroes, then Vera-Ellen was like Supergirl in this one. The athletic abilities which she displayed in this dance number are quite impressive. And great fun to watch also.
The men throwing themselves around wasa prelude to modern movies where women are purported to beat up men.
I love discovering talents like hers pretty much by accident. She's a bit before my time and I've never explored all these great musicals. There's no denying her brilliance, that's for sure.
ohhh boy, definitely, women do in heels what men do in sneakers...
The athleticism of these dancers is truly unparalleled. There were so many incredible talents back then. Now, we settle for much less.
Oh my is she real?!! I loooove this!
She is good one of the very best check her out if u not familiar with her work Obviously White Christmas and i remember dancing with the also very great Donald O Conner in ? Call me Madam ? Dancers are athletes and put in hard work to become as if by overnight magic Great thanx for posting
Great choreography.
vickbond008 Gene was the choreographer
@ARbenSRbarGR Totally agree with you. Watching White Christmas now. She is great in the dance numbers, but is so thin. She looks really good, in this movie. 5 years can do a lot, but there is a huge difference.
Fred Astaire once said that Vera-Ellen was the only one of his dance partners with a waist smaller than his, LOL :-)
Oh yes. So delicate.
I want her athletic shorts
Hmm,that's a tad vulgar. But she was very cute,so the attraction is understandable,lol.
Me too. I was trying to watch her dance and figure out how her shorts were made at the same time.
Who did this excellent choreography??? Exciting visually and showcasing vera
I checked. Choreographed by gene kelly. Cho cho san is a writer in phoenix
They pick a NEW Miss Turnstiles EVERY month. What a town!!!!
LOL
Damn she is amaaaazing! Just discovered her!!!!
Damn..look at how tiny her waist is..wow! Super cute, reminds me of a young Doris Day.
Actually she and Doris Day were friends , attending the same Cincinnati ballroom dance studio for a while. Also, she was actually Day’s senior by 1 year(Vera Ellen-b.2/16/21 Doris Day-b.4/3/22)
A great dancer, and lovely with it !
She was a great talent, but her personal life was tragic. it's a pity...
The "fight" scene of this is amazing. Equal parts humor athetisim and precision. No one was an eighth of an inch off. They couldnt be. When hwood had talent!
One of my favorite clips of all time! I had this scene recorded on my family's VCR back in the 1980s and watched it over and over again.
It is just NOT ACCEPTABLE that Vera-Ellen could have been so talented. She just makes me feel sick of jealousy ...
I am 90% certain that this film was choreographed by Gene Kelly & Hermes Pan. -------Note, Vera is most certainly NOT TOO SKINNY HERE! ------------------WolfSky9
There's "hot, and there's "sizzling hot." Vera Ellen was "sizzling hot" in this number, and in many others as well. She was the finest and sexiest female dancer I ever saw.
I am 19 yrs old. This movie is my fave movie of Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra together. But I gotta say, this scene is one of my favorites.
The talent shown is purely awesome. I haven't seen anyone in my age which matches this one.
I wonder how many calories this burns...just kidding. She was so amazing! I hope to dance like her someday!!!
I feel like this film was subtly commenting on how women had to be absolutely everything at once. but idk.
Consider the beliefs of the times in which it was made.
YES!! The messaging to society that women have to be EVERYTHING to be even acceptable or average has been going on forever and still is and it never ceases to make me catch my breath in shock (though nothing should be less shocking at this point). If no one "bought it" it wouldn't matter but men expect this of women and women expect it of themselves...and I'm very grateful I do not buy it and live alone in the woods. Lol. Seriously.
Spot on in and not ever complain while doing it all. I am the end of that era. What a pain to constantly act like “you got this”
Such pretty hair! Almost bet it was natural wavy, as well? In the way she carries it, a womans' "mane" says a lot about her, if you will pay attention? And, the eyes only confirm such! (Can't always trust the smile by itself, though: Dentures do wonders....!)
She apparently maintained the 'smallest waist in Hollywood'. 17 inches which you can see when she is lifted by her dance partners. Their hands more than meet around her waist.
Whew! Legs don't come any nicer than that.
BRILLIANT
Jadore
not her doing ballet and paining at the same time 😂😂
She's the OG Barbie
Barbie can't hold a candle to Vera! But yes, I love that bit too😄
What a delight she was! And such a tiny waist! :)
Yeah, but kind of too bad, after all. Sad.
She was born to twirl in a fluffy full skirt. Check out some of her other videos. She adorns the dance archive.
Can you imagine how awful it would have been if she was young in this day and age, with critical internet comments and such. People are so mean when they hide behind computer screens
Wboa she's beautiful and brilliant dancer
She’s literally so adorable 🥺🥺
Isnt that gene kelly in the beginning.
CelineElla123 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
One of the best dancers of her era & probably of all time thanx for posting this :-)
Vera Ellen was a lot skinnier in white Christmas!!!
+SassPrincess Of the Sassy Kingdom She was anorexic to keep her weight down. In fact it caused so much premature aging in upper body that is why she is covered in "White Christmas". I grew up watching her films and in awe by her hummingbird swift toes and teeny waist. Three Little words is my fav. with Fred Astaire and Red Skelton. RIP Vera.
That comment about her having to cover her chest in White Christmas because of premature aging due to anorexia has actually been debunked. There are photos of her at the same time wearing dresses that exposed that area and she looks just fine. Obviously, she was anorexic, just that part about her having to be covered wasn't true.
Jenn Powell I can believe that,(being debunked about the covering up that is). I don't know,(I could figure it out, if I wasn't lazy XD, as to what was going on in her life at that time?), what personal issues she was dealing with? She was married to a Rothchild and I imagine that brings a lot of pressure...but also she lost 2 children and after the second died she withdrew from public life. Can't say I blame her. She seemed like she had a kindly position/personality? Something about her face seemed like she was not a snob,(does this make sense?), at least I hope not because I really like her and was reared on her dancing....even more than Rogers, Miller or Cherise. She doesn't get the recognition for her talent as she should, IMO :) My parents would always mistake her for Mitzi Gaynor....but there is an obvious difference to me. :) Bisous!
Yeah, she looks much healthier here.
Here she is perfect in shape, energy and moves; and emotes blithely, with sprezzatura.
Brilliant
she is such a great dancer!
Wow!
Vera ranks right up there with Ginger Rogers. Amazing almost superhuman dancing and energy Loved her in White Christmas And that 18 inch waist!!
Genius choreography. I never heard of her before this video. Enjoyed every second of this
Now I realize why the producers felt compelled to cast an NYC Ballet Star in the Broadway revival (which I saw BEFORE checking out the movie) and why the beefed up the dancing bits to justify the Ballet casting... great Production!
Gene Kelly was beautiful.
That copper long gown is so beautiful
Vera-Ellen had the best legs in Hollywood.
Bravo!
She's amazing, and those fellows are doing a great job keeping up with her.
fantastic
@nuzzi7 This was made in 1949, before the anorexia had set in as much. In White Christmas, made in 1954, you can see the difference in her legs. I did not think anything of it when I first saw the movie. Now, after reading about her problem, I am more aware of it. Also in White Christmas, she wears high collars to cover her neck because her neck skin was beginning to sag. You don't think about that because the movie is set in cold Vermont, but Rosemary Clooney does not wear high collars.
She was incredible
Vera Ellen was considered the best female dancer of her time; as well as the hardest working dancer by her peers. Co-stars,directors,choreographers etc have said she was a joy to work with never complained and was patient/kind with everyone. She made one more picture after 'White Christmas' and retired for good. Sadly she passed away in her early sixties.
I once read that Vera-Ellen is one of only two ladies who could keep up with Fred Astaire! (Eleanor Powell was the other)
In White Christmas Danny Kaye has a number called Choreography, talking about that versus dancing. This number is more choreography. Vera-Ellen was brilliant in White Christmas. I think this was the difference between Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly (I prefer Astaire). Fred danced; Gene did choreography. Looks like his work here.
Gene danced as well, and did choreography too.
Very good Vera. Love Her in White Christmas. R.I.P.
This must be where the Left got the idea for those fight scenes in modern movies where skinny girls beat up muscle men.
Love. Vera Ellen was awesome.
Sensational scene
"what a girl!" I love Vera!!! :) :)
Don’t appreciate the gender roles in the beginning... but she is an incredible woman!!! A groundbreaking woman for her time!!!
Definitely this style of dance scene was repeated two years later in An American In Paris with Leslie Caron, Gene Kelly must have created them both.
What a routine! Superb.
Vera-Ellen was such a Great Dancer and So Cute & Attractive Too.
wow what a great dance number, vera-ellen is adorable!
Definitely one of my all-time faves....visited her grave a few years back...high in the mountains above L.A.
This was awesome! But you can tell really she had been in a fight by the way she was holding her hands in her “fighting stance.”
Super fun to watch tho! Such skill.
Vera Ellen was pure dancing genius. First time I've seen this clip.... Delightful. It's pretty much accepted that she battled anorexia. What the heck, we all battle something! I'm just sorry she couldn't stay with us longer!
She is so great. Love the sports bit.
🥕Vera Allen! #1! None Better!
I Like Vera Ellen I thought this was more then what it was it wasn't bad but could been better
Look at that widdle waist. Wow.