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The Band Wagon (1953)
In director Vincente Minnelli's great movie musical:
- the sublime, classic, graceful, and elegant Astaire-Charisse
love duet in Central Park titled "Dancing in the Dark" -
a "falling-in-love" dance with white-dressed ballerina
Gabrielle "Gaby"
Gerard (Cyd Charisse) opposite white-suited Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire)
- the elegant soft-shoe dance of tuxedoed, top-hatted
Tony and pretentious producer-director Jeffrey Cordova (Jack Buchanan)
to the tune: "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan"
- the film's jazzy, balletic 8-minute, dreamy, film-noir,
pulp B-movie, jazz-dance "The Girl Hunt Ballet" in the
finale by long-legged Gabrielle (as a slinky, red-dressed femme
fatale) and Tony Hunter - it functioned as a take-off or spoof
on the hard-boiled Mickey Spillane detective novels ("She came
at me in sections...more curves than the scenic railway")
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"Dancing in the Dark"
"I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan"
"The Girl Hunt Ballet"
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