Being a big movie fan all my life, I do not know what is true about Al and Ruby, I have heard things. BUT THESE TWO PEOPLE WERE GREAT TOGETHER ON THE SCREEN. This number is great, you will never see anything like this in film ever again.
I really do not know about Miss Keeler's personal life and opinions. I had the pleasure of meeting her in 1983 and she was very gracious. I loved her films, and I felt very fortunate to meet her...and I'm in the entertainment business, have known many Hollywood and Broadway talent, and I've never heard a bad word about her.
I have always loved her,so beautiful and an innocent charm lacking in so many star.I am so glad she was the same off screen from all i have read and seen.You were lucky to have met her.
Thanks for this; the last time I saw this number was on TV about 53 years ago. I didn't know the name of the movie, but I never forgot the catchy tune.
LOVE Al Jolson. Would listen to my parent's album and learn the songs. Loved Louie Prima and Keeley Smith too. My mom was a tap dancer and would say Ruby couldn't dance. If it's true that she used him and was anti sematic, I truly dislike her. Al was great!! Always loved this song, TY!
Where in hell do you get this anti-semetic crap from? I've researched this lady's life extensively, interviewed her and her friends and family and nothing substantiates the garbage you are spouting. Ms. Keeler was known to be one of the least bigoted and most down to earth and modest people in a profession filled with rampaging egos and judgementalism. She and Jolson regularly invited African American friends to their home. And are you aware that her second marriage of 27 years was to a Jewish man (he did later convert to Catholicism, but that was HIS choice). Jolson was an often cruel and tyranical man who tried to control Ruby's life and blamed their inability to have children on her, never informing her that he was sterile (she didn't discover the truth until she became pregnant by her second husband). Jolson frequently bad-mouthed her to the press; Ruby had the class to remain silent regarding him for her entire life. As for "using" him or anyone to forward her career - absolute nonsense. Ruby had no ambition or desire to be a star....she wanted to be a married lady with children. She always said her career just "happened....it was all based on good luck" - and it enabled her to support her entire family as her father was an invalid. And Ruby could dance - boy, could she ever.. I've never met a professional dancer - an I was in the business for 30 years - who wasn't a fan of her talents. Not one - Ann Reinking, Gregory Hines....on and on. How anyone could sit through a screening of "Colleen", "Ready, Willing & Able' or "Sweetheart Of The Campus" or who saw her on Broadway in ""No No Nanette" and scoff at her skill as a dancer is impossible to fathom. Try getting correct info before your fingers hit the keyboard. It is reprehensible to unfairly and cruelly print lies about someone who is entirely undeserving of them.
Re-read what I wrote, "If it's true". I wasn't referring to Keely, loved her. Personally, I didn't like Ruby's hard tapping. I can have an opinion, but I never said what you are getting all riled up about. You must take your time to read unless you are just looking to start arguments. If you never met a professional dancer, you are going by here say. I love Ann and Gregory. My mother didn't like Ruby's style either and she was a dancer. Go start a fight elsewhere.
You made a claim that she was anti-semite, which couldn't be father from the truth. And I said in my response to your post, I was a professional actor for 30 years. The comments I heard about Ruby were all heard first hand....I've worked with Ann Reinking, Gregory Hines, Bobby Van and a whole lot of other wonderful folks (and Keely Smith has been a close friend for decades) and I respect their opinions. And no, I was not starting a fight...I've never done that in my life. I was defending a lovely, gracious and classy lady who is unable to defend herself. End of conversation. All the best to you.
drsunshine1959 Again, re-read it, I said IF, not she was and you said you NEVER met a professional dancer, now you did. Yes, end of conversation. I am not alone in not enjoying her tapping and that was basically the point.
This movie displayed good singing and dancing. Al and Ruby created a image real talant although ec Exploited by media they had enduring aura class and style
The song is great! Harry Warren, along with many other songsmiths of the era, had a genius for writing catchy songs which, once heard, you couldn't forget if you tried.
******JOLSON ANG KEELER***WERE GREAT TOGETHER*****THANKS FOR POSTING***HARD TO THINK IT WAS *1935*GREAT***DR.J.***
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One of my all time favorite musical numbers. It was at this moment, that I realized this was one of my favorite depression era-musicals, despite the... problematic scenes.
The way I've heard the story was that by the early 30's Warner Brothers were not doing well, in fact were close to bankruptcy. They made a deal with Jolson who financed a large part of the studio, but there were also some conditions, one being that his wife (Ruby), be given star status in musicals...thus 42nd Street. It than continued and Pulled WB out of the hole, while making Jolson even richer than he was. (Remember, Jolson had the popularity of Chaplin or even the Beatles at his peak). It is pretty well known that Jolson was a horrible egotist and wasn't nice to people. Even though Ruby had been around for quite some time, I would think he made her life miserable. Now...there is no question that Ruby could not sing like Bebe Daniels, Could not dance like Ginger Rodgers and could not act like Una Merkel. I'm also sure she had not illusions to the contrary. Yet there was a charm about her which came off, at least to me. When I think WB or Busby Berkeley or Dick Powell, I'll always warmly think of Ruby Keeler. She was an entertainer, I was totally entertained and that's what counts!
Hope I'll be forgiven for speaking ill of the dead! I loved this video, actually this entire film, but there were issues. OK! I'm ready for the brickbats: Ruby was a shitty dancer! I always felt she was maybe 1 step above a basement school "dancing teacher!" Possibly more evident in other films, but here she still appears to be killing cockroaches while "tapping!" Can't help but love her; she's like your 2nd cousin who you never spoke of, but always shook your head. Asi es la vida!
She learnt Buck dancing as a young girl which was heavier than tap.People today are used to a lighter tap style and so she gets stick for it,Buck dancing mostly forgotten.Its origins were in part in the Mills of England where they wore clogs.I think she was a fantastic dancer.There are clips of her dancing in stage shows in the 70's when she was in her 60s,marvelous,so beautiful too.
Denis Norden called it Casino de Paris but Steve Race referred to it as Go Into Your Dance. Al Jolson thought Ruby Keeler was too good for further involvement in films.
SHE'S A LATIN FROM MANHATTAN Copyright 1935 by Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics) Disseminated in accordance with the Fair-Use Provision of U.S. Copyright Law (section 107) for educational use. This arrangement pertains specifically to the version sung by Al Jolson in "Go Into Your Dance," copyright 1935, Warner Brothers Studios. (ASIN: B002TOL4C8) Fate sent her to me, over the sea from Spain, And she's the one in a million for me. I found my romance when she went dancing by, And she must be a Castillian, si si. Is she from Havana or Madrid? But something about her Is making me doubt her, I think I remember the kid. Yeah! She's a Latin from Manhattan, I can tell by her manana. She's a Latin from Manhattan, But not Havana. Though she does a rumba for us, And she calls herself Dolores, She was in a Broadway chorus, Known as Susie Donahue. She can take her tambourine and whack it, But to her it's just a racket, She's a hoofer from Fifth Avenue. She's a Latin from Manhattan, She's a Forty-second Streeter, She's a Latin from Manhattan, Senorita Donahue. (Actor) But Senior, she's danced all over the world, In Spain, in the Argentine. She's... She's a Latin from Manhattan, She's a Forty-second Streeter She's a Latin from Manhattan, Senorita Donahue. (Chorus) She's a Latin from Manhattan. She's a Latin from Manhattan. She's a Latin from Manhattan, Senorita Donahue. She's a Latin from Manhattan, I can tell by her manana. She's a Latin from Manhattan, But not Havana. Though she does a rumba for us, And she calls herself Dolores, She was in a Broadway chorus, Known as Susie Donahue. She can take her tambourine and whack it, But to her it's just a just a racket, She's a hoofer from Fifth Avenue. She's a Latin from Manhattan, She's a Forty-second Streeter, She's a Latin from Manhattan, Senorita Donahue.
Comments here are pointing out Ruby's minimal abilities to sing, dance, or act, and they're correct. Yet she was, legitimately, a very popular movie star in the 1930s, and that was because people really did like her. She might very well have been maneuvered into her starring roles at first, but no amount of behind-the-scenes payments could've kept her in those roles if the public hadn't responded favorably. And they did.
Reply to. Lonny Hillyer. Im very interested as to what you find so offensive? Would like to hear, why you feel this way. Is it the song, Ruby dancing, Al singing or the whole thing? You have a right to your opinion. I respect that, but please say more. Thanks Will.
So, I just came across this question because I was searching for something else. A few years ago, I was watching a documentary about the depiction of Latinos in film, etc. with a Puerto Rican friend of mine and the fact that the song as performed and its premise insisted on denigrating the female subject of that song went both ways; 1. In the dialogue, a man was trying to explain to Jolson's character that she is a regal woman from Spain (a European country), but, the song and the male character insisted she was something less than that, meaning..., she was merely just some Puerto Rican, Cuban or Dominican from Manhattan and was not worthy of the respect due to a Spaniard or a white woman, and, even denigrating the Spaniard because of the language and Spain's other historic and geographic connections. It was something my friend reacted swiftly and sharply to. It was so obvious to us as we watched it and when combined with the information within the rest of that documentary, it made it even more offensive. So, there's your answer, 4 years later.
@@lonhillyer Wow, you really took that the wrong way, to call her "A Latin from Manhattan" was saying she wasn't a Latin at all. The lyrics even state that her real name is "Donahue". She was a fake, in other words.
Wow--if this little thing gets your goat so strongly, what do you think of "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule"? I'd save some of your offense-taking for that, 'cause you'll need a lot of it! It's truly jaw-droppingly stuffed w. old, corny, & very offensive racial clichés. It is truly beyond just about anything. I never knew that there were only black (or blackface) folks in heaven (or maybe it was all 'separate but equal'), including a fey tailor (limp wrist & all), & all the watermelon you can eat.
Ruby Keeler was a gold digger at 15 yrs. old, working for gangster Johnny Irish in( speak easys) clubs in New York. She new her way around. Al Jolson was no fool. He new what he was getting into when he married her. When the Warner Bros gold mine played out ( they couldn't find any more films for her so called talent? and the public had grown bored with her, it was good by Al ,that's show biz. Al Jolson couldn't father children. They both new that. Years After Al was dead, she told an interviewer, that she was shocked to find out, she was pregnant by her second marriage. What no doctors back then? The cruelty catch, was a way out and she played on it, all the way to court. Al wasn't cruel, he just had no patience with her B.S. and after they divorced, he moved on with his life and found real happiness with Erle Galbreith his last wife and adopted children.
if you'd of read ruby keeler's biohraphy you'd see that she was selected out of her dance group as she looked promising, and she was very young, she worked her way up through playing at bars, Ruby divorced Al and he was very demeaning over her and let her have no freedom, even other stars such as alice Faye said Ruby was very sweet and innocent and when she was with Al she had no voice, Ruby was no gold digger, and she also found real happiness after they divorced, she married when she was 18 and he was 49
The great times of the past with the best. Thank you.
Being a big movie fan all my life, I do not know what is true about Al and Ruby, I have heard things. BUT THESE TWO PEOPLE WERE GREAT TOGETHER ON THE SCREEN. This number is great, you will never see anything like this in film ever again.
I love his energy, always inspiring.
I really do not know about Miss Keeler's personal life and opinions. I had the pleasure of meeting her in 1983 and she was very gracious. I loved her films, and I felt very fortunate to meet her...and I'm in the entertainment business, have known many Hollywood and Broadway talent, and I've never heard a bad word about her.
I have always loved her,so beautiful and an innocent charm lacking in so many star.I am so glad she was the same off screen from all i have read and seen.You were lucky to have met her.
Thanks for this; the last time I saw this number was on TV about 53 years ago. I didn't know the name of the movie, but I never forgot the catchy tune.
the songs and singing have style image and aura that can mske you forget all the negative in media
LOVE Al Jolson. Would listen to my parent's album and learn the songs. Loved Louie Prima and Keeley Smith too. My mom was a tap dancer and would say Ruby couldn't dance. If it's true that she used him and was anti sematic, I truly dislike her. Al was great!! Always loved this song, TY!
Where in hell do you get this anti-semetic crap from? I've researched this lady's life extensively, interviewed her and her friends and family and nothing substantiates the garbage you are spouting. Ms. Keeler was known to be one of the least bigoted and most down to earth and modest people in a profession filled with rampaging egos and judgementalism. She and Jolson regularly invited African American friends to their home. And are you aware that her second marriage of 27 years was to a Jewish man (he did later convert to Catholicism, but that was HIS choice). Jolson was an often cruel and tyranical man who tried to control Ruby's life and blamed their inability to have children on her, never informing her that he was sterile (she didn't discover the truth until she became pregnant by her second husband). Jolson frequently bad-mouthed her to the press; Ruby had the class to remain silent regarding him for her entire life.
As for "using" him or anyone to forward her career - absolute nonsense. Ruby had no ambition or desire to be a star....she wanted to be a married lady with children. She always said her career just "happened....it was all based on good luck" - and it enabled her to support her entire family as her father was an invalid. And Ruby could dance - boy, could she ever.. I've never met a professional dancer - an I was in the business for 30 years - who wasn't a fan of her talents. Not one - Ann Reinking, Gregory Hines....on and on. How anyone could sit through a screening of "Colleen", "Ready, Willing & Able' or "Sweetheart Of The Campus" or who saw her on Broadway in ""No No Nanette" and scoff at her skill as a dancer is impossible to fathom.
Try getting correct info before your fingers hit the keyboard. It is reprehensible to unfairly and cruelly print lies about someone who is entirely undeserving of them.
Re-read what I wrote, "If it's true". I wasn't referring to Keely, loved her. Personally, I didn't like Ruby's hard tapping. I can have an opinion, but I never said what you are getting all riled up about. You must take your time to read unless you are just looking to start arguments. If you never met a professional dancer, you are going by here say. I love Ann and Gregory. My mother didn't like Ruby's style either and she was a dancer. Go start a fight elsewhere.
You made a claim that she was anti-semite, which couldn't be father from the truth. And I said in my response to your post, I was a professional actor for 30 years. The comments I heard about Ruby were all heard first hand....I've worked with Ann Reinking, Gregory Hines, Bobby Van and a whole lot of other wonderful folks (and Keely Smith has been a close friend for decades) and I respect their opinions. And no, I was not starting a fight...I've never done that in my life. I was defending a lovely, gracious and classy lady who is unable to defend herself. End of conversation. All the best to you.
drsunshine1959 Again, re-read it, I said IF, not she was and you said you NEVER met a professional dancer, now you did. Yes, end of conversation. I am not alone in not enjoying her tapping and that was basically the point.
Al was and still is the world's greatest!!
pure artistic genius.
This movie displayed good singing and dancing. Al and Ruby created a image real talant although ec
Exploited by media they had enduring aura class and style
The song is great! Harry Warren, along with many other songsmiths of the era, had a genius for writing catchy songs which, once heard, you couldn't forget if you tried.
This film (Go into your Dance) was the only film they appeared in together.
2:30 when he just cuts him off and starts singing, proper memed the bloke lol
******JOLSON ANG KEELER***WERE GREAT TOGETHER*****THANKS FOR POSTING***HARD TO THINK IT WAS *1935*GREAT***DR.J.***
One of my all time favorite musical numbers. It was at this moment, that I realized this was one of my favorite depression era-musicals, despite the... problematic scenes.
The way I've heard the story was that by the early 30's Warner Brothers were not doing well, in fact were close to bankruptcy. They made a deal with Jolson who financed a large part of the studio, but there were also some conditions, one being that his wife (Ruby), be given star status in musicals...thus 42nd Street. It than continued and Pulled WB out of the hole, while making Jolson even richer than he was. (Remember, Jolson had the popularity of Chaplin or even the Beatles at his peak). It is pretty well known that Jolson was a horrible egotist and wasn't nice to people. Even though Ruby had been around for quite some time, I would think he made her life miserable. Now...there is no question that Ruby could not sing like Bebe Daniels, Could not dance like Ginger Rodgers and could not act like Una Merkel. I'm also sure she had not illusions to the contrary. Yet there was a charm about her which came off, at least to me. When I think WB or Busby Berkeley or Dick Powell, I'll always warmly think of Ruby Keeler. She was an entertainer, I was totally entertained and that's what counts!
Hope I'll be forgiven for speaking ill of the dead! I loved this video, actually this entire film, but there were issues. OK! I'm ready for the brickbats: Ruby was a shitty dancer! I always felt she was maybe 1 step above a basement school "dancing teacher!" Possibly more evident in other films, but here she still appears to be killing cockroaches while "tapping!" Can't help but love her; she's like your 2nd cousin who you never spoke of, but always shook your head. Asi es la vida!
She learnt Buck dancing as a young girl which was heavier than tap.People today are used to a lighter tap style and so she gets stick for it,Buck dancing mostly forgotten.Its origins were in part in the Mills of England where they wore clogs.I think she was a fantastic dancer.There are clips of her dancing in stage shows in the 70's when she was in her 60s,marvelous,so beautiful too.
Denis Norden called it Casino de Paris but Steve Race referred to it as Go Into Your Dance. Al Jolson thought Ruby Keeler was too good for further involvement in films.
SHE'S A LATIN FROM MANHATTAN
Copyright 1935 by Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics)
Disseminated in accordance with the Fair-Use Provision of U.S. Copyright Law (section 107) for educational use.
This arrangement pertains specifically to the version sung by Al Jolson in "Go Into Your Dance," copyright 1935, Warner Brothers Studios. (ASIN: B002TOL4C8)
Fate sent her to me, over the sea from Spain,
And she's the one in a million for me.
I found my romance when she went dancing by,
And she must be a Castillian, si si.
Is she from Havana or Madrid?
But something about her
Is making me doubt her,
I think I remember the kid.
Yeah!
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
I can tell by her manana.
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
But not Havana.
Though she does a rumba for us,
And she calls herself Dolores,
She was in a Broadway chorus,
Known as Susie Donahue.
She can take her tambourine and whack it,
But to her it's just a racket,
She's a hoofer from Fifth Avenue.
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
She's a Forty-second Streeter,
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
Senorita Donahue.
(Actor)
But Senior, she's danced all over the world,
In Spain, in the Argentine.
She's...
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
She's a Forty-second Streeter
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
Senorita Donahue.
(Chorus)
She's a Latin from Manhattan.
She's a Latin from Manhattan.
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
Senorita Donahue.
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
I can tell by her manana.
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
But not Havana.
Though she does a rumba for us,
And she calls herself Dolores,
She was in a Broadway chorus,
Known as Susie Donahue.
She can take her tambourine and whack it,
But to her it's just a just a racket,
She's a hoofer from Fifth Avenue.
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
She's a Forty-second Streeter,
She's a Latin from Manhattan,
Senorita Donahue.
Comments here are pointing out Ruby's minimal abilities to sing, dance, or act, and they're correct. Yet she was, legitimately, a very popular movie star in the 1930s, and that was because people really did like her. She might very well have been maneuvered into her starring roles at first, but no amount of behind-the-scenes payments could've kept her in those roles if the public hadn't responded favorably. And they did.
Could any of you help me, writing the lyrics of the chorus, because I not understand well english??
I loves me some watermelon, too!
Reply to. Lonny Hillyer. Im very interested as to what you find so offensive? Would like to hear, why you feel this way. Is it the song, Ruby dancing, Al singing or the whole thing? You have a right to your opinion. I respect that, but please say more. Thanks Will.
So, I just came across this question because I was searching for something else. A few years ago, I was watching a documentary about the depiction of Latinos in film, etc. with a Puerto Rican friend of mine and the fact that the song as performed and its premise insisted on denigrating the female subject of that song went both ways; 1. In the dialogue, a man was trying to explain to Jolson's character that she is a regal woman from Spain (a European country), but, the song and the male character insisted she was something less than that, meaning..., she was merely just some Puerto Rican, Cuban or Dominican from Manhattan and was not worthy of the respect due to a Spaniard or a white woman, and, even denigrating the Spaniard because of the language and Spain's other historic and geographic connections. It was something my friend reacted swiftly and sharply to. It was so obvious to us as we watched it and when combined with the information within the rest of that documentary, it made it even more offensive. So, there's your answer, 4 years later.
@@lonhillyer Wow, you really took that the wrong way, to call her "A Latin from Manhattan" was saying she wasn't a Latin at all. The lyrics even state that her real name is "Donahue". She was a fake, in other words.
Donohue would infer that she's of Irish descent.
Wow--if this little thing gets your goat so strongly, what do you think of "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule"? I'd save some of your offense-taking for that, 'cause you'll need a lot of it! It's truly jaw-droppingly stuffed w. old, corny, & very offensive racial clichés. It is truly beyond just about anything. I never knew that there were only black (or blackface) folks in heaven (or maybe it was all 'separate but equal'), including a fey tailor (limp wrist & all), & all the watermelon you can eat.
Ruby Keeler was a gold digger at 15 yrs. old, working for gangster Johnny Irish in( speak easys) clubs in New York. She new her way around. Al Jolson was no fool. He new what he was getting into when he married her. When the Warner Bros gold mine played out ( they couldn't find any more films for her so called talent? and the public had grown bored with her, it was good by Al ,that's show biz. Al Jolson couldn't father children. They both new that. Years After Al was dead, she told an interviewer, that she was shocked to find out, she was pregnant by her second marriage. What no doctors back then? The cruelty catch, was a way out and she played on it, all the way to court. Al wasn't cruel, he just had no patience with her B.S. and after they divorced, he moved on with his life and found real happiness with Erle Galbreith his last wife and adopted children.
if you'd of read ruby keeler's biohraphy you'd see that she was selected out of her dance group as she looked promising, and she was very young, she worked her way up through playing at bars, Ruby divorced Al and he was very demeaning over her and let her have no freedom, even other stars such as alice Faye said Ruby was very sweet and innocent and when she was with Al she had no voice, Ruby was no gold digger, and she also found real happiness after they divorced, she married when she was 18 and he was 49
This song, clip and Al Jolson were and are equally offensive.