Royal memories of a special evening in Los Angeles, honoring the great film dancer, Fred Astaire. [...]
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21 February 2013 
Not an obituary, but an encyclopedia entry on the dance career of Matt Mattox, who passed away in France earlier this week. [...] 13 November 2012 
A still photo from a lost dance number in DOWN TO EARTH (1947) reflects the superb choreographer Jack Cole;’s strong design influence in post-war Hollywood. [...] 25 October 2012 
A marvelous Columbia Pictures publicity still from 1947 describes a rare creature: a ballet dancer who became a movie star, Marc Platt. [...] 5 October 2012 
A new lot of super-duper essays about America’s 100 Irreplaceable Dance Treasures published today. [...] 17 June 2012 
“The I Don’t Care Girl” is a cult classic not for the film itself but for three superlative dance sequences embedded within it: “I Don’t Care,” “Beale Street” and “The Johnson Rag.” [...] 17 March 2012 
Stylish, grown up, funny, dirty, great. That’s Jack Cole’s work with Betty Grable, this time in “Meet Me After the Show” (1951). [...] 14 April 2011 
One of Jack Cole’s faithful film and nightclub male dancers, George Martin, died in Atlanta. Martin kept the flame burning for Cole over the past decades and we are grateful. [...] 25 November 2010 
Jack Cole’s extraordinary dance career, which ended in Los Angeles as a beloved dance instructor at UCLA, had its start as a Denishawn dancer, and soon thereafter as one of Ted Shawn’s Male Dancers, visiting in 1931, Shawn’s nascent Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. [...] |
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gered mankowitz, photog, 1967
“the red danube” (1949)
