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Nine years after his last compilation of musical-movie highlights (That's Entertainment, Part II), producer Jack Haley Jr. offers another enjoyable nostalgia-fest, That's Dancing. Unlike his earlier films, which were confined to the output of MGM, That's Dancing offers vignettes from the best of Warner Bros. (the Busby Berkeley extravaganzas, On Your Toes), RKO (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), 20th Century-Fox (The Nicholas Brothers, Carmen Miranda), Universal (1969's Sweet Charity) and United Artists (the "Cool" number from West Side Story). There are ... highlights from the top musicals of the 1970s and 1980s, which with such rare exceptions as Saturday Night Fever (1977) can't hold a candle to Hollywood's vintage songfests. Host/narrators Gene Kelly, Sammy Davis Jr., Mikhail Baryshnikov, Liza Minnelli and Ray Bolger help put the clips in their historical perspective, though all five stars seem tired and unenthusiastic. The real money scene in That's Dancing is Ray Bolger's "wind" dance, which was cut from the final release print of The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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Liza Minnelli and the film producer Jack Haley Jr. were married today before a few close friends in suburban Montecito. Miss Minnelli, 28 years old, was an hour late for the ceremony at El Montecito Presbyterian Church. Liza Minnelli and Jack Haley Jr. after their wedding
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The Thalians is the world's first celebrity charity created in 1955 by Hugh O'Brian, Nicky Blair, Jack Haley Jr., David Wolper, Richard Donner and others who wanted to change the image of celebrities. Now headed by Debbie Reynolds and Ruta Lee, their legacy eventually raised approximately $30 million to build The Thalians Mental Health Center at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1973. Named after the Muse of Comedy, 'Thalia,' The Thalians has attracted most of Hollywood's mega-stars. Unlike any organization of its' kind, The Thalians serves as a star-fraternity, boasting a rich archive featuring some of the world's most adored of the silver screen.
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