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British Film Season: Invitation to the Dance

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Starring Gene Kelly

A combination of dance, live-action, pantomime and animation are the ingredients of this unusual musical film created by the American dancer Gene Kelly but produced almost entirely in Britain.
The film consists of three separate ballet sequences, completely different in story and setting but each bearing Gene Kelly's distinctive choreographic style.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

Contributors

Direction and choreography:
Gene Kelly
Music (Circus):
Jacques Ibert
The Lover:
Igor Youskevitch
The Loved:
Claire Sombert
The Clown:
Gene Kelly
Music composed and conducted by (Ring Around the Rosy):
Andre Previn
The Husband:
David Paltenghi
The Wife:
Daphne Dale
The Artist:
Igor Youskevitch
The Model:
Claude Bessy
Stage Door Johnny:
Tommy Rall
The Femme Fatale:
null Belita
The Crooner:
Irving Davies
The Hat-Check girl:
Diana Adams
The Girl on the Stairs:
Tamara Toumanova
The Marine:
Gene Kelly
Scheherazade:
Carol Haney
Based on music by (Sinbad the Sailor):
null Rimsky-Korsakov
Cartoon sequences (Sinbad the Sailor):
null Hanna-Barbera
Sinbad:
Gene Kelly
The Genie:
David Kasday
Source: Radio Times

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