That's Dancing!

That's Dancing! (1985)

Documentary Music

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, up to the break dance and music videos from the 80s.

6.9

Release Date: 1985-01-18
Runtime: 1h 45min
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Country: United States of America
Director: Jack Haley Jr.
Writer: Jack Haley Jr.

Trailer

Watch That's Dancing! Online

No streaming options found at this moment.

Photos

Cast

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Self - Host
Ray Bolger

Self - Host
Sammy Davis Jr.

Self - Host
Gene Kelly

Self - Host
Liza Minnelli

Self - Host
Tommy Abbott

'West Side Story' dancer
Fred Astaire

Self (archive footage)
Robert Banas

'West Side Story ' dancer
Jennifer Beals
David Bean

'West Side Story' dancer
Francesca Bellini

'West Side Story' dancer
Busby Berkeley

Self (archive footage)
Erik Bruhn

From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)
James Cagney

From 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (archive footage)
Cyd Charisse
Carole D'Andrea

'West Side Story' dancer
Dan Dailey
George Chakiris

Bernardo
Arlene Dahl

From 'Three Little Words' (archive footage)
Leroy Daniels

From 'The Band Wagon' (archive footage)
Gloria DeHaven

From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Isadora Duncan
Buddy Ebsen

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Taina Elg

From 'Les Girls' (archive footage)
Harvey Evans

'West Side Story' dancer
Eliot Feld

'West Side Story' dancer
Bob Fosse
Loïe Fuller
Judy Garland
Betty Garrett

Ruth Sherwood (archive footage)
Kathryn Grayson

From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Barbara Hancock

From 'Finian's Rainbow' (archive footage)
Carol Haney
Robert Helpmann

From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)
Tab Hunter

From 'Damn Yankees' (archive footage)
Michael Jackson
Marine Jahan

From 'Flashdance' (archive footage)
Zizi Jeanmaire

From 'Hans Christian Andersen' (archive footage)
Danny Kaye

From 'White Christmas' (archive footage)
Howard Keel

From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Ruby Keeler

From '42nd Street' and 'Dames' (archive footage)
Paula Kelly

From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)
Michael Kidd

From 'It's Always Fair Weather' (archive footage)
Frances Langford

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Charles Laskey

From 'On Your Toes' (archive footage)
Shirley MacLaine
Bert Michaels

'West Side Story' dancer
Ann Miller
Una Merkel

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Patsy Ruth Miller

From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
Tony Mordente

'West Side Story' dancer
George Murphy

From 'Broadway Rhythm' (archive footage)
Fayard Nicholas

From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)
Harold Nicholas

From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)
Rudolf Nureyev
Donald O'Connor
Susan Oakes

'West Side Story' dancer
Anna Pavlova
Lauren Peterson

Ballet student with Gene Kelly
Dick Powell
Eleanor Powell
Jane Powell
Harve Presnell

From 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' (archive footage)
Juliet Prowse

From 'Can-Can' (archive footage)
Ron Randell

From 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Chita Rivera

From 'Sweet Charity' (archive footage)
Ginger Rogers
Alex Romero

From 'On the Town' (archive footage)
Reiko Sato

From 'Kismet' (archive footage)
Wini Shaw

From 'Gold Diggers of 1935' (archive footage)
Moira Shearer

From 'The Red Shoes' (archive footage)
Phil Silvers

From 'Cover Girl' (archive footage)
Sid Silvers

From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
Red Skelton

From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
Tucker Smith

'West Side Story' dancer
Lyle Talbot

Self
Russ Tamblyn
Lilyan Tashman

From 'So This is Paris' (archive footage)
Scooter Teague
Shirley Temple
Tamara Toumanova

From 'Tonight We Sing' (archive footage)
Gina Trikonis

'West Side Story' dancer
Bobby Van

From 'Small Town Girl' and 'Kiss Me Kate' (archive footage)
Vera-Ellen
Gwen Verdon

Lola (archive footage)
Esther Williams

From 'Bathing Beauty' (archive footage)
David Winters

'West Side Story' dancer
Yuriko

From 'The King and I' (archive footage)
Vera Zorina

From 'On Your Toes' (archive footage)
Debbie Reynolds
Bill Robinson
John Travolta

Self (archive footage)
James Stewart

Self (archive footage)
Jennifer Beals

Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant

Self (archive footage)
Shirley MacLaine

Self (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra

Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland

Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson

Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable

Self (archive footage)
Vivien Leigh

Self (archive footage)
Mickey Rooney

Self (archive footage)
Lucille Ball

Self (archive footage)
Bob Fosse

Self (archive footage)
Jack Haley

Self (archive footage)

Related Movies

Cirque du Soleil - Volta

2018
Viva Las Vegas

1964
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web

2017
The Australian Ballet's The Nutcracker

2015
James Dean: Rebel Generation

2025
Burlesque: Heart of the Glitter Tribe

2017
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul

1993
Top Hat

1935
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

2007
Hollywood Hobbies

1939
Disco Fever

1978
Step Up

2006
Beloved Days

2015
BRATS

2024
Honey

2003
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

2001
Je m'appelle Régine et je vous emmerde !

2025
Ballroom King

2021
Behind the Screens, Hollywood Goes Hypercommercial

2000
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014