Vera-Ellen Tries To Get Perry Como To Dance!
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Because of his "Mr. Relaxation" persona/moniker, Perry Como was good-naturedly ribbed throughout his career by showbiz personalities, with the zenith of the jests perhaps being SCTV's "Perry Como: Still Alive" skit in the early eighties, featuring a semi-comatose Eugene Levy crooning his way through songs. But when it came to lampooning Como's laid-back image no one was more proficient at it than Como himself. He beat the SCTV lampooners to the punch over two decades earlier by portraying himself falling asleep in the middle of his own TV show! (see the end of the "Kewpie Doll" video I've posted).
Here, from 1956, we have another example of Como having some fun with his image. In order to get out of dancing, he sends in another dancer (the show's choreographer, Louis DaPron) to take his place. Meanwhile, Mr. Como relegates himself to a rocking chair onstage and yawns through the performance!
Sorry about the less-than-stellar video quality; gotta settle for what's available with some of these early clips. - Розваги
Vera Ellen was the best female dancer in Hollywood. No other female dancer could do ballet, tap, jazz dancing, and all the rest with such style grace and athletic power! She was the best indeed.
So true.
Except Patrick Swayze... it's a bad joke... what do you want?😂
This was telecast in 1956. A year later she appeared, looking run down, with Tony Martin in a bland musical set in Scotland... and that was it, curtains, the end of her screen career. Ahead lay arthritis, her only child's cot death, divorce and years of cancer.
Ruby Keeler finished with 'Colleen', her best dancing; Ginger brushed up her technique for 'The Barkleys of Broadway'. Cyd closed as a dancer with 'Silk Stockings', Eleanor Powell with the idiosyncratic but funky 'Sensations'. All poor Vera-Ellen got was an insipid, instantly forgettable British effort, barely distributed Stateside. Life is cruel.
"I'm retired. I stopped when I was ahead. I don't need my work anymore, and I don't need the applause." (1977).
RIP.
@@esmeephillips5888 Cyd danced two numbers in Party Girl which came after Silk Stockings. Party Girl was Cyd's last at MGM. Cyd also danced in a few other lesser films in the 60s such as the spy film she appeared in with Dean Martin. I agree with your assessment of Vera in her last film with Tony Martin..it did not present her in the best light except for the finale where she danced very well.
@@jackanthony976 I forgot she danced in 'Party Girl', though it was about the only movie where she showed acting ability. What I meant was that 'Silk Stockings' was Cyd's last starring role as a dancer first and foremost.
Such a pleasure to see Vera Ellen dance :) one of the greatest brilliant dancer to ever be on the dance floor. who put her heart and soul gave it her all. She was a superb performer on stage. It was nice to hear Vera sing with her own voice for a change. Am so glad she met Perry Como. He was a funny talented show host and had a great voice. I enjoyed this clip so much. It touch my heart. Thanks for sharing. Her legacy will always live on for years to come.
There was nobody better than Vera-Ellen.
That's true. However, she was in the last legs of her career in this clip. Her movie career was virtually over by this time and she literally disappeared from the public in the 60's.
@JACK ANTHONY To be the fair she had opportunities to keep performing. The only reason she quit Hollywood was cause of the death of her daughter. If that hadn’t happened she would have continued to perform long after this.
Stunning lady with a beautiful personality an incredible talent
I would like to add to these wonderful clips from yesteryear. I had the honor of studying with Louis DaPron as a young dancer myself. I started dancing as a child taking lessons from another dancer who herself worked as a child in many of the Peggy Ryan-Donald O'Connor movies, Choreographed by Mr. DaPron.
The last time I saw Vera Ellen was shortly before her passing taking a ballet class in Hollywood. You couldn't miss that great leg extention she still had long into her retirement.
She looks a bit like Doris Day. She is so fresh and natural in her moves. Such a lovely lady.
@Jim Stark Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe and Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff.
Even though Mr. Como got her name wrong.. this was on Feb. 18, 1956 [she was 35]. You'll notice her dance partner, Louis Da Pron, was outta breath, but she was still doing HIGH kicks, and continued to sing with Perry w/o any hint of heavy breathing. She, also, appeared on his show again on his Thanksgiving show in 1958, dancing, and singing to, "Shall We Dance". I don't think this is on You Tube,etc. Too bad, because GREAT composer, Harry Warren was on that show, too.
She's such a beautiful woman. What a great dancer.
Vera-Ellen was the best overall dancer to come out of Hollywood. It is wonderful that her greatness is on film so that younger generations of dancers can see what perfection looks like.
Vera was fantastic! I love Perry Como, too!
All three of them were great singing or dancing!!!❤
thank you for this WONDERFUL CLIP of Vera-Ellen THANK YOU THAN YOU...Please bring some more !
A great Hollywood Star. Such glamour and stardom that we will not forget. Gods bless you, Vera....
That was cute, thanks for sharing!
vera was a athlete, thank you for sharing one of her works
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!
perry como the best. so funny :)
Wow, beat those high kicks! Athletic and graceful...a one in ten million gal!
Sigh, what a great throwback to my preteen years, all I'd do is watch videos of her dancing on UA-cam. If not for Vera, I wouldn't have become a cheerleader in high school or take dance classes in school
Vera-Ellen was the all time bomb. Beautiful, athletic and graceful. She has become my favourite Golden Age starlit.
I can’t understand how Perry could mispronounce her name as “Vera Allen” since she had been starring in big-budget movie musicals for years by the time she made this TV appearance in 1956.
He also appeared with Vera Ellen in a 1948 film musical called Words and Music. They did not have any scenes together but they were in the same film both being under contract to MGM at that time.
He was a dumbass!
Perry at this time felt threatened by Miss Vera Ellen as she was a much bigger star than him in 1956. Vera danced and acted in quite a few lavish technicolor films while Perry's film career fizzled quite quickly and therefore he was relegated to doing a weekly black and white TV show. I think he mispronounced her name intentionally.
@@jackjules7552 This is a ridiculous statement and effort to pit two great stars against each other. Perry Como was a huge star in 1956. He was already famous as a singer and his TV show was a nationwide institution. He was seen by millions of people weekly, people who also bought his records. He was never "relegated" to anything, and you must be one of the few people in the world capable of hating on Perry Como.
Not a great routine - lots of skipping - the wonderful Vera was capable of SO much more than this.
I adore Vera's dancing, she was just incredible.
Most choreographers prefer not to exhibit their own skills (if only because they think they are past it) but Louis DaPron was always ready to do a bit of support hoofing or play a straight man, in pictures as well as on the tube.
He has a bit in 'Funny Lady' as a choreographer, 20 years after this.
Vera was a wonderful dancer
About the two minute mark, Perry brings out his choreographer Louis DaPron to dance with Vera Ellen. Young people won't know much -- if anything -- about DaPron but he was, as you can see in this clip, a fine dancer in his own right
About a decade earlier, he did a scene with Donald O'Connor and Lew Parker (later to be Marlo Thomas's dad in That Girl) and you can see how great he really was. He was, in fact, O'Connor's dance instructor at one point.
Here's the clip with O'Connor and Parker. DePron comes in at the 1:45 mark. He's playing the bartender who comes out to join in the dance
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Vera Ellen was elegant and gorgeous. That dress was stunning. Positively the best female dancer of all.
Do you have the whole show?
This video reminds me of this scene:
"I used to be Ricky Nelson. I'm Perry Como now."
"No, you're not! You moved!"
Wonderful snapshot of real talent based on traing practise and rehearsals Perry Como was good to But VA was an awesome athlete and so artistic love her work
Actually, Vera-Ellen Westmeyer Rohe.
WHEN WAS THIS FIRST TELECAST???
Great memory
This was after she had to wear dresses that covered most of her neck and her legs had gotten so skinny like in "White Xmas."
This is an old story that has circulated for years and been disproven by photographs of her at that same time with her neck not covered up.
@@Armond2013 If you look at those awful ropy legs and compare them to those of just two years before it becomes obvious Vera Ellen starved and exercised too much. Those legs are terrible.
Vera was nice she is also IVY Smith from on the town
love old tv shows
It’s unusual for Vera-Ellen to have appeared in a dress like the one she’s wearing when she first walks on. She was so skinny from anorexia that her costumes always covered up her arms, back, and neck. The dress she wears later is of the type she always wore in films.
She suffered from anorexia.
Vera-Ellen could not sing, Como could not dance and neither could act. Honors even.
Lauren Bacall sang worse than Vera Ellen but yet Miss Bacall ended up "singing" and starring in two Broadway musicals as well as some road show musicals. I put quotes around the word singing because even Lauren Bacall would not call what she did singing.
Vera-Ellen was a drag queen
Vera-Ellen a drag queen? I don't think so. Maybe you have her mixed up with Perry Como who reportedly liked women's clothes.
@@jackanthony976 That was Dan Dailey, wasn't it;-)?
@@esmeephillips5888 Yes, plus Dan Dailey.