Collections/March 2022

Two Starring Cyd Charisse

Born, depending on your source, either 100 or 101 years ago this March, Cyd Charisse was both a great dancer (trained in Russian ballet) and a great beauty—a combination that made her one of the last of the musical stars to emerge from the MGM dream factory. She was also one of the few women to dance with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Witness her sizzling turn opposite Astaire in The Band Wagon ’s virtuosic “Girl Hunt Ballet” and her “knock out” boxing-ring showstopper in Kelly and Stanley Donen’s It’s Always Fair Weather for a taste of the fierce talent and long-legged grace she brought to some of the definitive musicals of Hollywood’s golden age.

2 films — 0 on the Channel, 2 unavailable