..I WON'T DANCE - Marge & Gower Champion 1952 HD

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  • @Som3D
    @Som3D 3 роки тому +32

    Why am I nostalgic for a time I didn't even exist 😭

    • @andreseloyvangelismartinez6407
      @andreseloyvangelismartinez6407 2 роки тому +5

      I think is because you had a love that makes you fall in love so bad and just imagine the great times you and her had in the past, and associated that with this two male and female dancing together and them look so In love each other

    • @voulafisentzidis8830
      @voulafisentzidis8830 Рік тому +4

      Because this is glorious!

    • @teresayeates3437
      @teresayeates3437 6 місяців тому +1

      Spend time with older ones, they have the best stories! My mum tells about dating, going to all the movies, summer boyfriends versus regular ones, changing hairstyles with the movie they just saw, whichever star was in it. Once the female star had a sort of messy, just got out of bed look, her mother hated it.
      The clothes were gorgeous, they learned to pose by reading magazines. Lovely.

    • @CallMeGailyn
      @CallMeGailyn Місяць тому +1

      Courtship in the old days had rules that extended the romance phase. 😊 I'm 70. I was crushing on these people as a kid. By the time I was old enough to dance with boys, the music was Motown and pop and the in dance was the Jerk... and the Twist. Etc.

    • @CallMeGailyn
      @CallMeGailyn 28 днів тому +1

      Because a part of you was there.

  • @user-sm7dr9bk5u
    @user-sm7dr9bk5u 2 місяці тому +4

    Ah, back when music was music and real talent like the Champions could perform. I sure miss the good old days.

  • @juanarocha8629
    @juanarocha8629 3 роки тому +35

    RIP Marge Champion
    Thank you very much for the terrific performances, Snow White. At 101 years of age you have finally earned your peace
    Rest well

  • @louisedewolf5731
    @louisedewolf5731 Рік тому +4

    So beautiful and joyful I adored these musicals as a child . Now at84 yrs this is even more enchanting. Gorgeous.

  • @enehmzow
    @enehmzow 3 роки тому +25

    Rest in Peace Marge Champion:
    September 2, 1919- October 21, 2020

    • @robertmiller1655
      @robertmiller1655 3 роки тому +2

      What a treasure. She was the last living member of the main cast of the film version of Showboat. She will be dearly missed.

    • @michaelchapman4955
      @michaelchapman4955 Рік тому +2

      I had no idea Marge Champion was alive until Late Oct 2020... Whenever I hear Gower Champion's name, I think of My LA, Hollywood Grandparents' who lived on N Bronson Ave around the corner from Melrose & N Gower where RKO Studio Pictures was 'which later became Desilu Gower Studios in Late '57

  • @sherrijones1598
    @sherrijones1598 3 роки тому +5

    Beautiful dancer. You can tell she had ballet training...her lines r so clean.

  • @anti_noy
    @anti_noy 7 місяців тому +5

    Вот это сокровище…❤

  • @GeorgeTennesseeWiseman
    @GeorgeTennesseeWiseman Рік тому +2

    Terrific! Merci! What a delight. They remind me of one of my favorite musical numbers from this era where a man and woman sing and dance across the floor, down the elevator and into the street and I'm talking about Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman singing and dancing to the Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer song, "Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," from the film, HERE COMES THE GROOM. CHEERS!

  • @BruceTheSillyGoose
    @BruceTheSillyGoose 3 роки тому +5

    RIP Marge Champion, well-named and charmed of life.

  • @johnfachy393
    @johnfachy393 3 роки тому +5

    Such energy and talent!!!!!

  • @suzieQ195
    @suzieQ195 4 роки тому +11

    Great dancing team!! loved them along with all the dancers and singers of that time..

  • @CoxJoxSox
    @CoxJoxSox 5 років тому +6

    Great dancing and choreography!

  • @carolynellis387
    @carolynellis387 3 роки тому +6

    They were just fantastic. He, did the most amazing tap in Tea for Two, Doris Day film, he jumps up and down stairs tapping, using the bannisters. Around 1953.....
    Together in Show Boat. RIP Marge

  • @tomasmacanbhreithiun434
    @tomasmacanbhreithiun434 Рік тому +4

    Sublime in a chaotic mad world.

  • @annerood2703
    @annerood2703 3 роки тому +6

    Just terrific. RIP Marge Champion. Recommend Robert D McFadden's obituary of her today at the NYT. Thanks.

  • @clairerobertson1288
    @clairerobertson1288 7 місяців тому +1

    BLISS!!!

  • @roberttanenbaum3313
    @roberttanenbaum3313 3 роки тому +9

    Love the ten seconds of pure playfulness at 2:45

  • @kelvinaguilar3070
    @kelvinaguilar3070 6 років тому +6

    I loved it

  • @jorgesixtoantonio3162
    @jorgesixtoantonio3162 2 роки тому +2

    very well

  • @smallbluehour
    @smallbluehour Рік тому +1

    Sheer beautiful perfection. I love them.

  • @paulderocco4553
    @paulderocco4553 3 роки тому +14

    Dorothy Fields, who rewrote the lyrics to the song for "Roberta" with Fred and Ginger, rewrote some of the lyrics again for this version. The intro is completely different (and very clever), and the line about doing "the Continental" is replaced with a rhyme with "accidental".

    • @michaelchapman4955
      @michaelchapman4955 Рік тому

      'Dorothy Fields was one great lyricist..... She also worked with composer Cy Coleman & other great composers from The Great American Songbook

  • @awambangwono1570
    @awambangwono1570 6 днів тому

    Какое приятное было белое искусство Запада!
    Где оно всё?
    Выродилось...

  • @derblae52
    @derblae52 11 років тому +4

    I came here from America's Got Talent then Michael Buble. Love this. Gower is hot. Thanks for posting this rarity.

  • @marciajuliaretiz
    @marciajuliaretiz 11 років тому +6

    Love it!

  • @davidallen508
    @davidallen508 6 років тому +9

    This is brilliant and should have been included in one of the “That’s Entertainment” series , along with ‘Life Upon The Wicked Stage’.
    I would love to have seen Gower dance with Vera Ellen ; those two really did it for me.Thank you for this underrated gem.

    • @starababa1985
      @starababa1985 11 місяців тому

      "I've been looking everywhere for "Life Upon the Wicked Stage". It's the best!

    • @robincastle2209
      @robincastle2209 10 місяців тому

      @@starababa1985 Pretty sure it's in the Kathryn Grayson version of "Show Boat".

  • @user-eo9ie7zn9p
    @user-eo9ie7zn9p 7 місяців тому +2

    Marge was a Disney model. Gower... choreographer...🎉🎉🎉🎉 WGNJMNFAS

  • @jiyjorj
    @jiyjorj 7 років тому +3

    Beautiful 😍

  • @roslyndecanio81
    @roslyndecanio81 3 роки тому +1

    RIP, Marge Champion.

  • @sHART1780
    @sHART1780 Рік тому +1

    Imagine how many takes they must have had to do to get this right. Its all one shot.

  • @brianchampion3337
    @brianchampion3337 Рік тому

    My parents told me and my siblings that we were related to Marge and Gower Champion. Always wished it was true and that I had a way of finding out.

  • @StevenTorrey
    @StevenTorrey 7 років тому +10

    Still, you have to ask what it was that Fred Astaire brought to the screen (with Ginger Rogers) that could never be duplicated,

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 4 роки тому +5

      Marge Champion is obviously a more technically trained dancer than Ginger.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому +3

      The clearly weren't trying to duplicate them

  • @ibexedlayorf9223
    @ibexedlayorf9223 3 роки тому

    R. I. P. Marge Champion

  • @noralee7838
    @noralee7838 10 місяців тому

    I LOVED THEM WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER.

  • @canvasstitcher
    @canvasstitcher 7 років тому +25

    Exceptionally difficult to dance around props.

    • @anonagain
      @anonagain 3 роки тому +3

      ...and in high heels. RIP Marge.

  • @kenrawley9025
    @kenrawley9025 3 роки тому +5

    RIP. Real talent vs the hoax talent of today.

  • @juanmonge8
    @juanmonge8 5 років тому +5

    She reminds me of Alice Kramden in that dress.

  • @maxan2006
    @maxan2006 5 років тому +3

    Великолепно, и по прошествии более полувека.

  • @emmarose4234
    @emmarose4234 3 роки тому +1

    ❤️

  • @cosi66
    @cosi66 5 років тому +1

    really nice

  • @tommyvermiglio1649
    @tommyvermiglio1649 8 років тому +3

    And She Will Sing I Will Tap Dance Like Fred Astaire And Gene Kelly And Danny Kaye

  • @choppergirl
    @choppergirl 8 місяців тому

    lol that's awesome

  • @tommyvermiglio1649
    @tommyvermiglio1649 8 років тому +5

    Charli And I Will Be Fred Astaire And Ginger Rogers And The 2 Of Us Will Be Dancing Together As Friends And Buddies

  • @heterosectional
    @heterosectional 10 років тому +2

    Gower became a very successful director on Broadway later in life. Died on opening night of the re-make of "42nd Street."

    • @bigred8432
      @bigred8432 9 років тому

      Remake?

    • @terryasheim9038
      @terryasheim9038 8 років тому +2

      That's right, and Marge is still alive as of 2016. She is 96 now.

    • @bigred8432
      @bigred8432 8 років тому +1

      Terry Asheim It wasn't the remake it was the opening of the broadway musical, which was based on an earlier film yes but you wouldn't call a stage adaptation a remake.

    • @Rusty3659
      @Rusty3659 6 років тому

      Technically when it's re-staged like 42nd Street was, it's called a Revival.

  • @Guilfordking
    @Guilfordking 10 років тому +4

    Great video. Really enjoyed it.

  • @felidaunknown5923
    @felidaunknown5923 3 роки тому +2

    What type of dancing? I genuinely curious, its amazing.

    • @Som3D
      @Som3D 3 роки тому +1

      Tap dance I don't even know as well

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому +1

      Broadway Dance, a cousin of Jazz Dance

  • @markwoldin162
    @markwoldin162 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful.
    Why is the tempo so fast, though?

  • @arnoldstollar5375
    @arnoldstollar5375 9 місяців тому

    Roy Damron

  • @tommyvermiglio1649
    @tommyvermiglio1649 8 років тому +1

    And last night was fun

  • @BruceTheSillyGoose
    @BruceTheSillyGoose 3 роки тому +2

    was that their singing as well?

  • @tommyvermiglio1649
    @tommyvermiglio1649 8 років тому

    I Will Sing And Dance With Charli While She Sings To Me And When My Grandpa Will Watch Us And I Cant Run Around She Will Say That's Not Dancing This Is Dancing

  • @woutthielemans5073
    @woutthielemans5073 2 роки тому

    Funny thing is: this song isn't about holding off an unwanted dance partner, it's about liking someone so much that when you hold them in your arms you're going to make love to them, not dance with them... That isn't present in any staging of this number.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому

      then go off somewhere and pout about it - the rest of us will enjoy this charming performance

  • @michelboudot2882
    @michelboudot2882 4 роки тому +3

    She is still alive must be 96""""""

    • @vegas1a
      @vegas1a  4 роки тому

      Born: September 2, 1919 (age 100 years)

    • @fabriciofranco16
      @fabriciofranco16 4 роки тому

      @@vegas1a still alive?

    • @vegas1a
      @vegas1a  4 роки тому

      @@fabriciofranco16 Can't find anything that says otherwise.

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 4 роки тому

      She is barely hanging in there.

    • @michaelkeith6195
      @michaelkeith6195 3 роки тому +1

      Sadly she passed away on October 21, 2020 at 102.

  • @tommyvermiglio1649
    @tommyvermiglio1649 8 років тому +1

    And she told me to go that's why I get so frustrated when she does this to me

  • @tommyvermiglio1649
    @tommyvermiglio1649 8 років тому +2

    I Wish Mickey Mouse Should Go To That And Kermit The Frog And Fozzie Bear

  • @Dancin9lady
    @Dancin9lady 11 років тому +4

    wonderful, though she should have been wearing one of the dresses on the mannequins instead...

  • @EliTessadroo
    @EliTessadroo 5 років тому

    what's the name of this sorta dance?

  • @xchindit
    @xchindit 3 роки тому +3

    Bye bye, Snow White..

  • @starbuono3333
    @starbuono3333 9 років тому +13

    Naw ... I'm going over to watch this number with Fred and Ginger Im outta here !!!!

  • @rogerpropes7129
    @rogerpropes7129 5 років тому

    Just about the time when Gower had an affair with.... Shirley Temple!

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 4 роки тому

      I wonder what an "affair" with the good ship lollipop would be like?

    • @SRowan-fr1nl
      @SRowan-fr1nl 3 роки тому +2

      The only mention of this that I am aware of his Shirley’s implication in her autobiography that Gower was flirtatious for whatever reason. This was a detail in her life we did not need. He was not married at the time. I think she had a childhood infatuation that never subsided. Pure rubbish.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому

      lucky Shirley!!

  • @nancyhowell5485
    @nancyhowell5485 7 років тому

    No

  • @jamesryan6008
    @jamesryan6008 6 років тому

    Disappointing. Especially that dress. After 10 years away from MGM, Adrian returned to design the gowns for this movie. He did much better in the past.

    • @brianoyler4777
      @brianoyler4777 5 років тому

      James Ryan, compare this dress which Marge is wearing with some of the dresses Adrian designed for the 1939 picture The Women. This was the "Adrian look". The dress fits the scene perfectly. Marge is playing a couturiere/fashion designer in Lovely To Look At 1952. You would not expect her to be wearing an evening gown while on the job.

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Рік тому

      it's a character dress, fits the character

  • @isaackahn7188
    @isaackahn7188 Рік тому +1

    So awful!