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Invitation to the Dance (film), the Glossary

Invitation to the Dance is a 1956 American dance anthology film consisting of three distinct stories, all starring and directed by Gene Kelly.^[1]

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1950s musical comedy films
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Films directed by Gene Kelly
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Films scored by André Previn
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Acrobatics

Acrobatics is the performance of human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination.

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Adrienne Fazan

Adrienne Fazan (May 9, 1906 – August 23, 1986) was an American film editor who first started cutting films in 1933.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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André Previn

André George Previn (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor.

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An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a single film consisting of several shorter films, each complete in itself and distinguished from the other, though frequently tied together by a single theme, premise, or author.

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Arthur Freed

Arthur Freed (September 9, 1894 – April 12, 1973) was an American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer.

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Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.

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Belita

Belita Jepson-Turner (21 October 1923 – 18 December 2005), known professionally as Belita, was a British Olympic figure skater, dancer, and film actress.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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Bosley Crowther

Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period.

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Carol Haney

Carol Haney (born Carolyn Haney; December 24, 1924 – May 10, 1964) was an American dancer and actress.

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Claude Bessy (dancer)

Claude Bessy (born in Paris, 20 October 1932) is a French ballerina, ballet master of the Paris Opera Ballet (1970–1971) and director of the Paris Opera Ballet School (1972–2004).

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Clive Barnes

Clive Alexander Barnes (13 May 1927 – 19 November 2008) was an English writer and critic.

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Conrad Salinger

Conrad Salinger (August 30, 1901, Brookline, Massachusetts – June 17, 1962, Pacific Palisades, California) was an American arranger, orchestrator and composer, who studied classical composition at the Paris Conservatoire.

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Dance Magazine

Dance Magazine is an American trade publication for dance published by the Macfadden Communications Group.

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Daphne Dale

Daphne Dale (July 18, 1931 – July 9, 1982) was a British ballet dancer.

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David Paltenghi

David Paltenghi (1919 – 4 February 1961) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, director and film director.

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Diana Adams

Diana Adams (March 29, 1926 – January 10, 1993) was a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet from 1950 to 1963 and favorite of George Balanchine, later becoming a teacher at — and dean of — the School of American Ballet.

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Freddie Young

Frederick A. Young (9 October 1902 – 1 December 1998) was a British cinematographer.

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer.

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Golden Bear

The Golden Bear (Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. Invitation to the Dance (film) and Golden Bear are Golden Bear winners.

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Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera was an American animation studio and production company, which was active from 1957 until its absorption into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001.

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Harem

Harem (lit) refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family.

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Igor Youskevitch

Igor Youskevitch (Игорь Юскевич, Ігор Юскевич) (13 March 1912 – 13 June 1994) was a ballet dancer and a choreographer of Russian-Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century, as a master of the classic style, e.g., in Afternoon of a Faun, and as a dance partner to Alicia Alonso.

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Invitation to the Dance (Weber)

Invitation to the Dance (Aufforderung zum Tanz), Op.

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Irving Davies

Irving Davies (26 April 1926 – 14 October 2002) was a Welsh dancer and choreographer.

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Jacques Ibert

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music.

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John Addison

John Mervyn Addison (16 March 19207 December 1998) was a British composer best known for his film scores.

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John Hollingsworth

John Hollingsworth (20 March 191629 December 1963) was a British orchestral conductor prominent in the concert hall, the ballet and opera theatre, and the film studio.

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Johnny Green

John Waldo Green (October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989) was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist.

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Joseph Ruttenberg

Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 – May 1, 1983) was a Ukrainian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer.

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Kasbah

A kasbah (also; lit,, Maghrebi Arabic), also spelled qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city.

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La Ronde (play)

La Ronde (also known by its original German title, Reigen) is a play in which ten people form an unwitting interpersonal circle with their secret sexual relationships.

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List of American films of 1956

A list of American films released in 1956 Around the World in 80 Days won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio

The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio was an American animation studio operated by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) during the Golden Age of American animation.

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five.

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Raymond Poulton

Raymond Poulton (1916–1992) was a British film editor.

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Robert Watts

Robert Watts (born 23 May 1938)Adam Pirani, Robert Watts: Secrets of "The Temple of Doom", Starlog #94, April 1985, pp 23–26,62.

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Roger Edens

Roger Edens (November 9, 1905 – July 13, 1970) was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_the_Dance_(film)

Invitation to the Dance (film), the Glossary

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See also

1950s musical comedy films

1950s musical films

Films directed by Gene Kelly

Films produced by Arthur Freed

Films scored by André Previn

Films scored by Jacques Ibert

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio films

References