Famous People Dancing: Is It Different?
May 16, 2018 8:43 PM Subscribe
Eartha Kitt correcting James Dean at the bar (ballet bar) is just right.
posted by sammyo at 8:52 PM on May 16, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by sammyo at 8:52 PM on May 16, 2018 [11 favorites]
1. Steve McQueen had some moves. Subtle, but definitely hip.
2. Speaking of hip, Paul Newman gots one.
3. Also, a little surprised to see McQueen’s rather modest digs. Until I realized this was 1961, which although it was after his appearance on TV (in Wanted: Dead or Alive) and in some high profile films (The Blob, The Magnificent Seven) it was still earlyish in his career.
posted by darkstar at 8:56 PM on May 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
2. Speaking of hip, Paul Newman gots one.
3. Also, a little surprised to see McQueen’s rather modest digs. Until I realized this was 1961, which although it was after his appearance on TV (in Wanted: Dead or Alive) and in some high profile films (The Blob, The Magnificent Seven) it was still earlyish in his career.
posted by darkstar at 8:56 PM on May 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Chilling out with Eartha Kitt and James Dean, can you imagine?
posted by rhizome at 9:05 PM on May 16, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by rhizome at 9:05 PM on May 16, 2018 [9 favorites]
...while the dog looks on.
posted by waving at 10:21 PM on May 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by waving at 10:21 PM on May 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
If I was a horse and Clint Eastwood started doing the Twist in front of me, I think I'd be trying to slowly back out of the room without making hoof noises.
Walt and Lilly! I've always loved that picture.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 12:33 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Walt and Lilly! I've always loved that picture.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 12:33 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
This is one of the most joyous collections I've ever clicked on.
posted by cincinnatus c at 3:36 AM on May 17, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by cincinnatus c at 3:36 AM on May 17, 2018 [6 favorites]
Vladimir Putin at the School Dance, 1969
You can almost see the timeline forking
posted by chavenet at 4:00 AM on May 17, 2018 [20 favorites]
You can almost see the timeline forking
posted by chavenet at 4:00 AM on May 17, 2018 [20 favorites]
I need to see Steve McQueen's home stereo. We see the records, but not the Altecs or Bozacks or Klipschorns that he's probably rocking.
posted by NoMich at 4:44 AM on May 17, 2018
posted by NoMich at 4:44 AM on May 17, 2018
I loved the pile of records on Steve McQueens floor.
posted by maggiemaggie at 4:45 AM on May 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by maggiemaggie at 4:45 AM on May 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
I have the Clint Eastwood picture and the Che Guevara picture open in two tabs and I just keep looking back and forth at them.
posted by penduluum at 5:33 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by penduluum at 5:33 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Picasso FTW. Also I never realized how closely James Dean and Benicio Del Toro (not pictured here) resemble one another.
posted by Bob Regular at 6:47 AM on May 17, 2018
posted by Bob Regular at 6:47 AM on May 17, 2018
So Queen Elizabeth was dancing with Nkrumah?
God, imagine a different world - Ghana doesn't face opposition from the World Bank and the global north, Nkrumah's reforms go just a little bit better and he faces less opposition, Ghana leads the world to a glorious post-colonial future, we all basically live in the glittering Afrofuturist-poptimist utopia that briefly seemed possible in the sixties.
posted by Frowner at 7:06 AM on May 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
God, imagine a different world - Ghana doesn't face opposition from the World Bank and the global north, Nkrumah's reforms go just a little bit better and he faces less opposition, Ghana leads the world to a glorious post-colonial future, we all basically live in the glittering Afrofuturist-poptimist utopia that briefly seemed possible in the sixties.
posted by Frowner at 7:06 AM on May 17, 2018 [3 favorites]
Che in a conga line with kindergartners was easily the most unexpected/delightful.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:21 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 7:21 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
The Queen's dance with Nkrumah was featured in a season 2 episode of The Crown.
posted by elsietheeel at 7:23 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by elsietheeel at 7:23 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
The thing about the Che Guevara picture is it is so unexpected that it seems like his presence caught everyone, including the kindergarteners, off-guard. They were having a dance class and this Latin revolutionary, three times their size, spontaneously appeared in their midst. He was documented with a single blurry photo before vanishing again. Che as cryptid.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:26 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:26 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Oh, I just needed this today. Except Sly and Arnold at the disco, but I'm feeling generous, and will allow it. ;-)
posted by allthinky at 7:40 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by allthinky at 7:40 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
The Queen's dance with Nkrumah was featured in a season 2 episode of The Crown.
And this, this is how the past is allowed to survive - lies and master narratives and shadows. I thought the linked essay was just terrific, especially the "This is how people come to believe they have no heroes" part.
Ugh, in any case, why wouldn't someone move closer to the USSR, which - admittedly, for its own reasons - actually wanted non-colonial powers to succeed? Anyone who wasn't just in it for themselves would do exactly the same thing.
posted by Frowner at 7:53 AM on May 17, 2018 [2 favorites]
I think regular people just danced together more and sang together more in those days.
Both Johnson girls were always portrayed as being kind of dorky at the time so it delights me to see Luci Baines Johnson more than hold her own with Steve McQueen.
posted by Gnella at 7:58 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Both Johnson girls were always portrayed as being kind of dorky at the time so it delights me to see Luci Baines Johnson more than hold her own with Steve McQueen.
posted by Gnella at 7:58 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
The large percentage of those photos are publicity stills, not snapshots. Inside Studio 54? Photo repped by UPI? Not casual.
posted by Ideefixe at 9:15 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Ideefixe at 9:15 AM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Surprised no one mentioned James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry...
posted by black8 at 7:15 PM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by black8 at 7:15 PM on May 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
For one, why all these people got their shoes on in the house?
For two, who's in their houses taking these pictures?
posted by windykites at 9:49 PM on May 17, 2018
For two, who's in their houses taking these pictures?
posted by windykites at 9:49 PM on May 17, 2018
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