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Bolger was a major Broadway performer in the 1930s and beyond. He is best known for his roles in The Wizard of Oz (1939) as the Scarecrow and in Walt Disney's holiday musical fantasy Babes in Toyland in 1961 as the villainous Barnaby. Bolger was the host of The Ray Bolger Show on TV from 1953 to 1955, originally titled Where's Raymond? [3]
The hosts for this film are Gene Kelly (who also executive produced), Ray Bolger (his last film appearance before his death in 1987), Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr., and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Pop singer Kim Carnes was commissioned to sing an original song, "Invitation to Dance", that plays over the closing credits.
An example of legmania is Ray Bolger's performance as the Scarecrow singing "If I Only Had a Brain" in The Wizard of Oz. [7] Joel Schechter describes eccentric dance as the "vaudevillian impulse to dance like crazy, even if the legs do not agree with the upper torso, or the music, about which way to go."
Ray Bolger, dancing (391 seconds) Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy (248 seconds) and Mortimer Snerd (102 seconds) Gypsy Rose Lee, performing a "strip" on stage (331 seconds) Gracie Fields, singing the "Machine Gun Song" and "The Lord's Prayer" (197 seconds)
The dancer, who has been warned just in time, evades them by suddenly dancing at full speed even after the ballet actually ends, and finally two police officers enter and arrest the gangsters. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue was danced by Bolger and Tamara Geva in the original stage production of On Your Toes , and by Eddie Albert and Vera Zorina in ...
From top left to bottom right: Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Judy Garland, and Ray Bolger Eighty-five years ago, The Wizard of Oz arrived in cinemas and ...
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" - Ray Bolger, Judy Garland, Marjorie Main, Ben Carter, [10] Virginia O'Brien, Cyd Charisse, [7] and Ensemble; from The Harvey Girls (1946) "It Must Be You" - dancing by a dance chorus; sung by Robert Montgomery and Lottice Howell; [11] from Free and Easy (1930)
Look for the Silver Lining is a 1949 American biographical musical film directed by David Butler and written by Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron and Marian Spitzer.A fictionalized biography of Broadway singer-dancer Marilyn Miller, it stars June Haver and Ray Bolger.