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That’s Dancing! (1985) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1985 · 105 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Jack Haley Jr.
- Starring
- Gwen Verdon, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Robert Helpmann, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire
The film traces the history of dance on screen, beginning with the earliest moving‑picture experiments after the invention of the camera, moving through the golden age of Hollywood song‑and‑dance movies from the 1920s to the 1960s, and concluding with the emergence of break‑dancing and MTV‑style music videos of the 1980s.
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