Eleanor Powell on Youtube

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Eleanor Powell on Youtube

Post by ROBERT M. » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:29 am

If anyone wants to watch the scintillating tap dance between Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire to the tune of "BeginThe Beguine" just click onto the following link. (The clip is the full 9 minute sequence, the tap dance is towards the end) but it is BRILLIANT-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=drJc1hD6-yU
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Post by Shashkova » Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:49 pm

Thats a lovely routine. I have a particular fondness for this one as it was one of the first good tap routines I learnt. I sure didn't do it like Eleanor though! :lol:

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Post by ROBERT M. » Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:10 am

Glad you are an "Ellie" admirer F x :D :D
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Post by Shashkova » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:40 am

Eleanor Powell was underated IMHO. A better dancer than Ginger, yet Ginger did have that certain *something*. Now don't even get me started on Ann Miller! :D She was amazing!

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Post by ROBERT M. » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:20 pm

But not as amazing as "Ellie" IMHO :wink:
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Post by mariana44 » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:10 am

You will soon learn Francesca, that Robert just loves Ellie [as he calls her],
and she can do no wrong !! He even wrote a poem about her--and it was very, very good.
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Post by ROBERT M. » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:41 am

I wonder where Francesca vanished to ? :lol:

But just to let anyone know that HMV now have the Broadway Melody of 1940, starring Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell at an astonishing £2.99.................it had been £12.99 since it's release.

The film is in Black and White, but the quality is outstanding...............the story of the film is quite goo too...................then there is the tap challenge between Fred and Ellie...............sumptuous....................a bargain for anyone at £2.99 :D
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Post by keithgood838 » Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:24 pm

Hi Robert
If you wrote an Ellie poem, I would like
to read it; post it on the Authors' Annexe please,
you dark horse.
Keith
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Post by Lena & Harry Smith » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:29 pm

Thanks for the information on Broadway Melody Robert. We'll have a look at that.
Although we have this matchless Powell and Astaire tap-dancing

Yes, Roberts poem is very impressive Keith. We haven't checked but Robert himself will confirm if it is still on Ellies web-site.
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Post by ROBERT M. » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:09 pm

I posted the Ellie poem about two years ago, but I cannot find it on Ellies website now, it must have been taken down :( I do not think I kept a copy of the poem either. It was a 100 line poem :)
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Post by keithgood838 » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:53 am

Wow, Robert
A poem of one hundred lines qualifies for the epithet,
epic. Have you written one in praise of our eponymous
patron? (I can't resist a bit of alliteration.) My favourite
paean to Matt is entitled, Omnipresence, yet it hasn't
attracted many reads. However, that is much less serious
than the loss of your Ellie piece. We poets have to suffer
for our art, don't we? :(
Keith
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