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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 . The film is unusual in that it has no spoken dialogue, with the characters performing their roles ...
- May 22, 1956
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, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Invitation to the Dance ( Aufforderung zum Tanz [a] ), 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. The autograph manuscript of the work is ...
Invitation to the Dance (1957) was Gene Kelly's project from the first and became one he would later regret. Kelly envisioned a film containing three separate ballets, with pantomime and a cartoon sequence reminiscent of the one used in Anchors Aweigh (1945).
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Invitation to the Dance. 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 ...
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