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Budget. $2,822,000 [1] Box office. $615,000 [1] 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 ...
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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Here is a Lobby Card from Invitation to the Dance (1956), starring Gene Kelly. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.
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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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MGM's Invitation to the Dance was the fruition of Gene Kelly's long-standing dream to create a plotless "concert" feature. Eschewing dialogue, Kelly tells three stories entirely through the medium of dance. The first sequence is a mime-like Pagliacci story, with Kelly as the Clown and Igor Youskevitch and Claire Sombert as the Lovers.
The movie performed poorly at the box office, and it generally is regarded as an artistic as well as commercial failure. Invitation to the Dance is a 1956 dance anthology film consisting of three distinct stories, all starring and directed by Gene Kelly.
