The Varsity Drag Dress Miasma

This post started as merely an appreciation of the great dress that June Allyson wore in the Varsity Drag number from Good News (1947), and then it sort of devolved into a heavy-breathing study of her petite (5'1") long-waisted (99-pound) figure with its well-turned legs and peep-toe heels, and then...well...
...it just kind of ended with pictures of June before she got all sensible with those 1950s short hair styles. Hey, I just like her, okay?

(Like you even asked for an explanation, right?)

Armida

Tiny (4'10") actress-singer-dancer Armida Vendrell was in General Crack (1930), The Marines Are Coming (1934), Machine Gun Mama (1944), Cuban Madness (1946), Jungle Goddess (1948), and The Gay Amigo (1949).

Exposures

Multiple exposure photos from Life.

Doing The Funky Western Civilization

They put Jesus on the cross
They put a hole in JFK
They put Hitler in the driver's seat
and looked the other way
Now they've got poison in the water
and the whole world's in a trance
But just because we're hypnotized
that don't mean we can't dance
-Tonio K, 1978









(Totally unrelated Life magazine pictures
of a funky 1960 Princeton dance night.)

My Favorite Silent Movie Scene

My favorite scene from Mel Brooks' Silent Movie (1976) is when Bernadette Peters does a dance that blows everybody completely out of their chairs.

Ladies of Mutoscope

Mutoscopes