That definitely qualifies as one of the more peculiar Hollywood dance numbers I’ve seen - Debbie Reynolds as a human football among dancing football players...?
hebneh not to say anything about the ATHLETIC ABILITIES she showed and FEARLESSNESS of being thrown around like she was! How in the world did she do this routine without getting injured?
Ok, I don't even have the flu nor Corvid19, but christ this looks like a fever dream. I'm seeing this out of context, but a football game dance number with a sentient football, what in the hell was going in '53?
ellyjett--In 1953, television was making huge inroads into the market share previously "owned" by the Hollywood studios. My mother spoke of, during the Depression, spending 5 cents on a Saturday to go to the movies to see a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel and a feature film, sometimes a double feature. Compare that with the prices of seeing a movie in theaters today! Movies during the Depression decade were designed to take people's minds off the bread lines and the unemployment and the hard times. When WW II overtook the nation, the movies were literally propaganda driven and so were the cartoons that were featured. If you can find a Warner Brothers cartoon DVD from that time period (most have been archived as they were, by the standards of the 21st century, very racist). At any rate, by 1950, television sets began appearing in living rooms and the studios began putting out epics such as Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, and others as well as movies with thin plots but plenty of dance routines and singing to try to fill the theater seats.
The economy was booming, rock and roll hadn't happened yet, Marlon Brando was in his prime - there was a lot of pent-up sexuality that could only be tamed by making Debbie Reynolds dress up as a football.
Debbie Reynolds was simply adorable in every movie she made, and the rapport between her and Donald O Connor was magic, I will never tire of watching these old clips.
It was not Debbie in some of the vaults, far too dangerous. Whoever did those stunts was fearless. Especially the one at 3:20 she threw herself backwards and had to trust she was going to be caught. She looked very pretty.
Sara Smith It wasn't Debbie in any of the vaults. Stunt double keeps her face averted from the camera, then there is a cut to CU of Debbie, every time.
I study Korean and have consequently seen a lot of Kpop music videos and people always say those are weird but then I remember this fever dream of a dance number and I'm just like "nah, not _that_ weird"
Keenan Hunt - lol, I can hear the play-by-play announcer: “he’s at the 20! He’s at the 10! He’s at the End-zone! He’s down the tunnel! He’s in the parking lot! 😄
Impossible to make such a movie in 2019 in Technicolor and 35 millimeters print! Watch this incredible work as a masterpiece! Merci beaucoup from Paris France
Easily in my top 5, I got genuinely nervous with most of these stunts and yet it also is SO funny! Props to Debbie and her stunt double 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 You inspire me! 💜
1:29 - OMG that catch! If he had not caught her, what an injury. I hope they practiced that over gymnast-style mats above 2 feet deep. Oh, yeah, and wow, how wonderfully weird. Kept expecting Nick Cage to pop up.
Fabulous incredible incomparable archive from Hollywood 35 millimeters TechniColor print with Debbie Reynolds, thumbs and hats up! BRAVO from PARIS FRANCE
Not according to Gene Kelly lol. He roasted her for her inability to dance in singin in the rain and Fred Astaire happened to being set and he coached her
If this was a Broadway show playing most nights, it was a serious accident waiting to happen. All credit to Debbie Reynolds for managing to keep that smile going!
Possibly inspired by Eleanor Powell, who wore a similar costume as a human pinball in 'Sensations of 1945'. Debbie grew up adoring Ellie and led the standing ovation when Miss P appeared at Fred Astaire's American Film Institute tribute in 1981. Ellie let herself be thrown around but never used a stunt double.
That sure is different way of looking at football. The choreography is spectacular. Imagine how many times the performers had to practice just for this number. Did they get hazard pay for this? Too bad they don't make musicals like that anymore.
That definitely qualifies as one of the more peculiar Hollywood dance numbers I’ve seen - Debbie Reynolds as a human football among dancing football players...?
hebneh not to say anything about the ATHLETIC ABILITIES she showed and FEARLESSNESS of being thrown around like she was! How in the world did she do this routine without getting injured?
Far more entertaining than the hedonistic garbage that Hollywood produces today.
It must satisfy the fetish of a LOT of people.
@Tisk Lala With CGI, the effect would've been more terrifying. I blame David Lynch.
@@mikegross6107 I think she had a stand-in for the more dangerous stunts. Watch parts of it in slo-mo.
This was genuinely much more enjoyable than any halftime show the Superbowl has had recently.
Debbie was a boss!
She was a gymnast in addition to being a dancer and a football. Definite boss, Cliff Trainor.
Not a high bar, but yes, it is
coreycox2345 She wanted to be a PE teacher, before she became an actress. :)
So was her stunt double!
🤣🤣🤣
Donald:say haven't we meet someplace before?
Me: singing in the rain!
I now have a fully comprehensive understanding of football. Thanks Debbie Reynolds!
She seems so tiny among these giant guys but she’s a tiny ball of fire, pure energy 😄✨✨✨
all padding
Ok, I don't even have the flu nor Corvid19, but christ this looks like a fever dream. I'm seeing this out of context, but a football game dance number with a sentient football, what in the hell was going in '53?
ellyjett--In 1953, television was making huge inroads into the market share previously "owned" by the Hollywood studios. My mother spoke of, during the Depression, spending 5 cents on a Saturday to go to the movies to see a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel and a feature film, sometimes a double feature. Compare that with the prices of seeing a movie in theaters today! Movies during the Depression decade were designed to take people's minds off the bread lines and the unemployment and the hard times. When WW II overtook the nation, the movies were literally propaganda driven and so were the cartoons that were featured. If you can find a Warner Brothers cartoon DVD from that time period (most have been archived as they were, by the standards of the 21st century, very racist). At any rate, by 1950, television sets began appearing in living rooms and the studios began putting out epics such as Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, and others as well as movies with thin plots but plenty of dance routines and singing to try to fill the theater seats.
The economy was booming, rock and roll hadn't happened yet, Marlon Brando was in his prime - there was a lot of pent-up sexuality that could only be tamed by making Debbie Reynolds dress up as a football.
Debbie is literally a football right now
What was going on?
...probably Marry Jew Wannah.
Debbie Reynolds was simply adorable in every movie she made, and the rapport between her and Donald O Connor was magic, I will never tire of watching these old clips.
This is so entertaining, Debbie was so petite & talented😍💕
Aisling Walsh yes you are right about her.
She was gorgeous.
This is adorable.
Totally adorable :)
Unimaginable that anything like this would get made today but I'm glad Warner Brothers is sharing it.
I wonder who did her vaulting for her; I can't imagine the studio would risk breaking Debbie Reynolds' neck!
She did a lot of her own stunts, she was a gymnast in high school.
I just thought it was interesting that whoever was being tossed in the air from 1:44 to 1:54 had her back to us.
It was not Debbie in some of the vaults, far too dangerous. Whoever did those stunts was fearless. Especially the one at 3:20 she threw herself backwards and had to trust she was going to be caught. She looked very pretty.
Sara Smith It wasn't Debbie in any of the vaults. Stunt double keeps her face averted from the camera, then there is a cut to CU of Debbie, every time.
We miss you Debbie Reynolds.
I study Korean and have consequently seen a lot of Kpop music videos and people always say those are weird but then I remember this fever dream of a dance number and I'm just like "nah, not _that_ weird"
Fantastic. Today's Hollywood movies don't even go 1% match to such Masterpiece
What a great routine, she will be missed, RIP Debbie
Imagine the meeting where they had to describe this scene to her...
"You want me to be what???" 😳😳😳
I saw this movie for the first time yesterday and Debbie Reynolds is a phenomenal actress.
Can't help smiling through the whole number.
Wow the backgroud painting is so high quality, it really trick me into thinking the space is actually bigger :I
Firstly, the word is 'High' and the trick was with the 'Dutch' camera angles.
It was impressive, whatever.
Wow! That girl (Debbie or stunt girl regardless) has some real GUTS doing those stunts. Health and Safety these days would have a purple fit!
There'd be no risk of me losing possession if I was carrying that football.
Lmao
lol 😂
Keenan Hunt - lol, I can hear the play-by-play announcer: “he’s at the 20! He’s at the 10! He’s at the End-zone! He’s down the tunnel! He’s in the parking lot! 😄
Not sure what I just watched but I love her voice!
Impossible to make such a movie in 2019 in Technicolor and 35 millimeters print! Watch this incredible work as a masterpiece! Merci beaucoup from Paris France
The utterly delightful Debbie Reynolds.
What a delightful, wonderful scene 😀
Quelle imagination ! 💐❤️🎶😍
Easily in my top 5, I got genuinely nervous with most of these stunts and yet it also is SO funny! Props to Debbie and her stunt double 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 You inspire me! 💜
They should do this at a Superbowl halftime show.
with who? the 100 million foreign invaders they imported since this film??
Cutest football ive seen 😂
Meu Deus essa Debye Reynolds era demais! Valeuuu 😄
Now THAT's entertainment!
Debbie so much, a great woman, an incredible dancer and singer, in France we love her! Emmanuel
debbie has a lot of core strength 😶
This is so cute!
THIS IS FUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKING LOVELYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
The guy who conceived of and wrote this number must have ended up on the funny farm!
where life is beautiful all the time
In a strange 1950's kind of way, that was amazing! Debbie Reynolds clearly wasn't made of gossamer...
That was impressive 🙌
1:29 - OMG that catch! If he had not caught her, what an injury. I hope they practiced that over gymnast-style mats above 2 feet deep.
Oh, yeah, and wow, how wonderfully weird. Kept expecting Nick Cage to pop up.
The stunt double/gymnast who actually performed all of the "off-the-floor" moves broke her arm rehearsing this routine.
@@markmark63 WOW. Now that's a valuable addition to the video comments! Thanks!
@@markmark63 Marlene Knoll.
This was great. Debbie was a great entertainer. They don't make them like this anymore. I glad it's on film. Thank for the upload. Out.
Fabulous incredible incomparable archive from Hollywood 35 millimeters TechniColor print with Debbie Reynolds, thumbs and hats up! BRAVO from PARIS FRANCE
I'm 33 years old but I belong with them.
Just adorable! Field goal muthas!
never knew Debbie Reynolds was such a hottie.
Que gran talento tenía esa actriz, además de bailar y cantar. Añoro esas películas con musicales en donde se lucían actores y bailarines. Muy hermoso.
The insane core strength she must have had to hold herself in some of those positions while getting tossed around by her limbs!
Paradise ❤️
Lovely Debbie...
Девочка-мячик просто чудо. Сама идея в танце показать футбольный матч замечательна.
This was certainly entertaining!
Debbie Reynolds is so dainty!
I wish the World Cup 2022 opening will be like this
my feels when the best years are far behind and the future looks like hell on earth. i'm nostalgic for a time i never knew.
I'm currently shopping online for a football costume for my wife .
This looks like it was so much fun for Debbie
Nice. I feel the thrill during each throw..😷🇦🇹😋
They look all beautiful and Debbie was beyond her time.
Beyond her time? She’s adorable!
Essa Debye Reynolds era de borracha KKKk,ela era muito doida! Valeuuu 😄
1:30 yeah that's how I like to make an entrance too 😂
what a FUCKING legend
Wow, Debbie was a natural dancer even if she didn't train as a child.
Woa so cool!
Wow!...that’s all I got to say. Just wow.
Wow could Debbie Reynolds dance!
Not according to Gene Kelly lol. He roasted her for her inability to dance in singin in the rain and Fred Astaire happened to being set and he coached her
Debbie invents wire work so we could have Kung-Fu movies forever after!
@Maxwell Smart LOL!!
Awesome!!
She had a damn near perfect body.
2:34 is a pretty funny dance🤸🏼♀️😅
I just realize she is cosplaying as football omg 🤣🤣🤣
WOW that is the cutest football I have ever seen.
This is some real strong theater kid bullshit and I love it.
Era linda demais, não a trocaria pela Elizabeth TAylor nunca.
My favorite movie is the one with the dancing football
Haha funny at first i disnt realise she was the foot ball😂💗
Meu Deus,a Mulher virou uma linda bola de futebol americano!
What a beautiful lady. Inside and out.
Thats how you do a halftime show!!
🗽🎦🎬✨💐往年の名作🎶✨一流のエンターテイメントですね~😆🎊🗻🎌😹
I see Robert Fuller's cute self doing some of the dance numbers at the beginning of this video! 🥰🥰🥰
I didnt know American football was so choreographed! 🤣🤣🤣
🏈 Thank You!
They don't make 'em like this no more I tell ya.
incredible, maybe the trapeze artist was in some scenes, Debbie is beautiful-----scandinavia
If this was a Broadway show playing most nights, it was a serious accident waiting to happen.
All credit to Debbie Reynolds for managing to keep that smile going!
Yeah, it would be like Spiderman Turn On The Dark all over again. :D
send me in!
haha wow
She's a football, that's so adorable☺
Possibly inspired by Eleanor Powell, who wore a similar costume as a human pinball in 'Sensations of 1945'. Debbie grew up adoring Ellie and led the standing ovation when Miss P appeared at Fred Astaire's American Film Institute tribute in 1981. Ellie let herself be thrown around but never used a stunt double.
Pretty cool concept! Also you can see her snatch which is awesome too! Cheers!!
She so sweet.
Good old days before I was born.............NO INTERNET" 🙈
You wouldn’t be watching this if it wasn’t for internet
when your an amazing dancer but your also lowkey a football
Why did this remind me of a Schoolastic Rock video? Like we needed a catchy song about history or something lol
OMG!!!!!! how is it Gillette didn't use this in their recent ads????????
That sure is different way of looking at football. The choreography is spectacular. Imagine how many times the performers had to practice just for this number. Did they get hazard pay for this? Too bad they don't make musicals like that anymore.
Choreographed by Robert Alton.
@@esmeephillips5888 The genius behind White Christmas, Call Me Madam, and many more classics' dances!
Good to see Billy Zoom in his first acting role
😍😍😍👍👏👏👏
Imaging trying to fill out your resume after being cast as a football.
Holy crap they're tossing that broad around so much I wonder how many takes were cut out of the movie where they drop her.
This is exactly what happened last Super Bowl.
Poor Debbie!!