[Balanchine in Hollywood]
- Title
- [Balanchine in Hollywood] [videorecording]
- Published by
- 1938-40.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (48 min.) : sd., b&w; 3/4 in.
- Contents
- CONTENTS. - Goldwyn follies (1938): excerpts (10 min.) Produced by Samuel Goldwyn, United Artists. Directed by George Marshall. Choreography by George Balanchine and Sammy Lee. Music: George Gershwin and Vernon Duke. Cast: Vera Zorina, William Dollar, and the American Ballet Company of the Metropolitan Opera. Romeo and Juliet ballet: two groups of dancers one performing in jazz style, the other in ballet style; Vera Zorina and William Dollar in a pas de deux; a brief finale. Water nymph ballet including a pas de deux by Zorina and Dollar. - On your toes (1939): excerpt: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet (27 min.) Produced by Warner Bros. Directed by Ray Enright. Choreography by Balanchine. Music: Richard Rodgers. Cast: Vera Zorina, Eddie Albert and others. (Eddie Albert had a stand-in for intricate tap dancing) Donald O'Connor is also seen briefly in a tap dance routine. - I was an adventuress (1940): excerpt (11 min.) Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox. Directed by Gregory Ratoff. Choreography by Balanchine. Music: Tchaikovsky. After a brief interlude with Vera Zorina in practice clothes, a fantasy parody of Swan lake is performed by Zorina and Lew Christensen.
- Call number
- *MGZIC 9-685
- Title
- [Balanchine in Hollywood] [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1938-40.
- Local subject
- Ballet in motion pictures. Balanchine in Hollywood.
- Motion pictures. The Goldwyn follies.
- Motion pictures. I was an adventuress.
- Ballet in motion pictures. On your toes.
- Added author
- Zorina, Vera, dancer.
- Dollar, William, dancer.
- Albert, Eddie. Performer
- O'Connor, Donald, 1925-2003, dancer.
- Christensen, Lew, 1909-1984, dancer.
- Balanchine, George, choreographer.
- Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Composer
- Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969. Composer
- Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. Composer
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Composer
- Lee, Sammy, 1890-1968, choreographer.
- American Ballet Company.
- Balanchine, George. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.
- Research call number
- *MGZIC 9-685