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Invitation to the Dance is a 1956 American dance anthology film consisting of three distinct stories, all starring and directed by Gene Kelly. It was the first film Kelly directed on his own, after co-directing three films with Stanley Donen.
Invitation to the Dance: Directed by Gene Kelly, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna. With Gene Kelly, Igor Youskevitch, Claire Sombert, Tamara Toumanova. Three different stories are told through a notably unusual way - no words, just dance.
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Gene Kelly stars in three vignettes told exclusively through mime and dance. In "Circus," a love triangle unfolds beneath the big top as a besotted clown (Kelly) pursues a trapeze artist who...
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Invitation to the Dance (Aufforderung zum Tanz), Op. 65, J. 260, is a piano piece in rondo form written by Carl Maria von Weber in 1819. It is also well known in the 1841 orchestration by Hector Berlioz. It is sometimes called Invitation to the Waltz, but this is a mistranslation of the original.
Invitation to the Dance is a 1956 film that features three stories told in dance by Gene Kelly and other performers. The stories involve a circus clown, a bracelet, and a sailor in an Arabian Nights fantasy.
A musical film featuring Gene Kelly as a clown, a lover, a sailor and a crooner. See the full list of actors, dancers, singers, choreographers, directors and other crew members who worked on this production.
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