George Zoritch - Dance Sequences from ‘Night and Day’ (1946) and 'Escape me Never' (1947)

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  • @theresaperry4526
    @theresaperry4526 4 роки тому +3

    Wondeful. Best ballet I've ever seen. The female dancer has such grace and a unique style so awesome to watch. Love this video. Thanks.

  • @tamivialpando4987
    @tamivialpando4987 3 роки тому +5

    George was my great uncle and a dancer till the day he passed ❤️

  • @annabalaban9318
    @annabalaban9318 3 роки тому +3

    One of the most beautiful dancing! 💕

  • @9reyling
    @9reyling 9 місяців тому

    Brings tears… exquisite talents all around!

  • @amster0112
    @amster0112 5 місяців тому

    Yuri (George) was my grandmother's cousin. He was the sweetest man and always made me laugh! When we would visit him in Arizona he would make me a special pb&j sandwich when he made borscht because he knew I didn't like it! I loved hearing him and my grandma tell stories of their childhoods in Kaunas. I just knew him as cousin Yuri, I didn't know his ballet legacy until I was older. It's wonderful to see how he was so loved.

  • @ginettemolloy8984
    @ginettemolloy8984 2 роки тому +2

    Fantastic

  • @raquaro1
    @raquaro1 4 роки тому +4

    What a damn shame that only 84 people have seen this. Americans watch trash now. This is spectacular!

  • @ruthbashford3176
    @ruthbashford3176 4 роки тому +4

    I absolutely love this and is the best version of this wonderful song, in my opinion. And dare I say it even better than one of the greatest singers of all time, Mario Lanza. And the beautiful dancers are superb especially Milada Mladova

  • @charlesrussell5458
    @charlesrussell5458 3 роки тому +1

    Zoritch was so smooth and beautiful. Male pin-up ballet star of his time. Good dancer too!!!!!!

  • @simaraft7373
    @simaraft7373 7 років тому +4

    Wow he's fabulous. Definitely steals the show from his flailing ballerinas!

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  7 років тому +2

      isn't he! as they say 'he's got it all'. and a sweet guy, as far as one can tell from his interviews in the documentary 'Ballets Russes' 2005

  • @cre8lite11
    @cre8lite11 Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing this I had a copy somewhere that disappeared. One of my favorites. Moira Shearer I was obsessed with since the movie came out when I was two years old. My mother was a dancer in Vaudeville who taught ballet, tap, modern and ballroom. There was
    a book about her recently by Eleni sikelianos. The red shoes is still my very favorite movie. Thank you so much for sharing!💜

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  10 місяців тому

      yes, 'The red shoes' is a wonderful movie - i go back to it often. there were quite a few Hollywood movies in which Shearer appeared - some times with sequences as a dancer performing classical roles, like Act 3 of Sleeping Beauty'

  • @brucelundy781
    @brucelundy781 2 роки тому +2

    Greatest

  • @catherinedolan6168
    @catherinedolan6168 2 роки тому +3

    Love this dance sequence from this movie, Night AND DAY. DON'T KNOW WHO THE FEMALE DANCER IS , BUT I think she's amazing It's like she's liquid so smooth and light as a feather! Just beautiful!.

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  Рік тому +1

      she is Milada Mladova :)

    • @cre8lite11
      @cre8lite11 Рік тому

      Yes she’s great! My mother was a dancer starting in vaudeville when she was seven and taught ballet, tap, ballroom and modern. A book about her is by Eleni Sikelianos. I haven’t seen it yet!

  • @MOBYDICK...
    @MOBYDICK... 2 роки тому +1

    Mon grand père merci pour cette vidéo

  • @bangbgood
    @bangbgood 4 місяці тому

    LeRoy Prinz oversaw the dance sequences for many many Warner Brothers films, but I'm not sure he actually choreographed this or the specialty tap dance in "Night and Day." I'd be interested to know more about how this sequence came about.

  • @BalletBabyBoy
    @BalletBabyBoy 7 років тому +3

    GORGEOUS dancers and dancing...oh how i love these lost days

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  7 років тому

      hi Markie - me too! i have real nostalgia for them.

  • @ameliamarbablanco6998
    @ameliamarbablanco6998 Рік тому

    Preciosas las canciones de Cuol Porter

  • @liviogiusti5470
    @liviogiusti5470 3 роки тому +2

    ottimo ballo ancora oggi nel 2021

  • @deborahhigginbotham7276
    @deborahhigginbotham7276 7 років тому +3

    Dang!! Milada Mladova burned up the screen in "Night and Day".. Now, THAT's a dancer! He didn't know what hit him.

  • @kermitheckert9964
    @kermitheckert9964 7 років тому +1

    Milada Malova was also excellent as his partner in his sequence from Night and Day.

    • @bonneburton8446
      @bonneburton8446 6 років тому +1

      Her costume is fantastic

    • @catherinedolan6168
      @catherinedolan6168 3 роки тому +1

      I thought she was so wonderful! I thought she was better than him!

  • @michelleregis1795
    @michelleregis1795 7 років тому +2

    All the dancers were beautifull, Im not familiar with George Zorich indeed he was fine and outstanding. I loved these old hollywood extravegazas,they were so lush and romantic. at times they would feature stars from the ballet and other musical repertoires.Very enjoyable.
    Thank you.

    • @louisquintanar3066
      @louisquintanar3066 3 роки тому

      George zoritch was a founding premier dancer of the ballet russe.
      Between companies, he danced in cabaret and Hollywood musical films. Typical ways for many ballet dancers even until the 50's to pay the rent and make money. See founding members of the Ballet Russe.

  • @louisquintanar3066
    @louisquintanar3066 3 роки тому +2

    Another version fred astaire and elenor powel in movie broadway melody 1040

  • @alandun27
    @alandun27 7 років тому +1

    Have you read his autobiography? assuming yes . . .
    He is also credited in De Mille's Samson and Delilah, but I cannot find find him in it?
    Alan

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  7 років тому +1

      i knew he was credited in Samson and Delilah - odd that the Wiki entry on the movie does not mention him en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_and_Delilah_(1949_film)#Casting in fact no dance scene is mentioned - Wiki does not always get it right!!!

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  3 роки тому

      @Gregory Fall that could well be right

  • @pediatrapaola
    @pediatrapaola 7 років тому

    yes very few at disposal ,l was told that he was good also in classics

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  7 років тому

      yes, i've heard that too - maybe better at the classics as he's less experienced here?

    • @pediatrapaola
      @pediatrapaola 7 років тому

      here we can't undrestand ,imo, his technicall level

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  7 років тому

      i agree - he seems mostly being used as a partner and when he does dance it does not seem so impressive.

    • @richardmessina9475
      @richardmessina9475 7 років тому

      If "he" refers to George, he was most certainly an important "classical" dancer. I am told he was first gentleman to dance a pas de deux with another gent....

    • @JohnRaymondHall
      @JohnRaymondHall  7 років тому

      that's interesting - i didn't know that :)

  • @richardmessina9475
    @richardmessina9475 7 років тому

    a bientot.

  • @TheJohngrif
    @TheJohngrif 5 років тому +2

    Why did you cut it up? Terrible!

  • @TheJohngrif
    @TheJohngrif 5 років тому +2

    You ruined the original video.

    • @louisquintanar3066
      @louisquintanar3066 3 роки тому +1

      Part one with tenor ramirez was probably cut because of copy right infraction. Part one featured gorgeous fantasy men and women dancing begin in what some called stereotype. Carmen Miranda style and coereogaphy. Great number. In another film- Fred astride and Eleanor Powell performed in two parts: tropical bolero and tap number. Both fantastic