Busby Berkeley
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Sep 11, 2026
C. Robert CargillHOST
This is one of those rare dance sequences in it where the dance sequence is impressive to me.
C. Robert CargillHOST
OK, which one? Because, you know, the thing with, you know, watching film dance sequences short of Busby Berkeley.
C. Robert CargillHOST
where he's playing with geometry and, you know, there's so much planning and organization and it's all a kind of group effort to create, you know, a, you know, the surreal, these surrealistic images with human bodies.
C. Robert CargillHOST
This is not that this is classic dancing, but the A&M victory song, the dancing in that by the male dancers is so impressive that, With their timing and the way they do it and how they hold the shots and when they decide to cut, they're not cutting around the talent.
Miles EadieHOST
The dances were staged by Bobby Connolly.
Miles EadieHOST
Busby Berkeley had originally been slated to direct all the film's musical sequences, but his contribution is narrowed to a single number due to a conflict with Warner Brothers.
Miles EadieHOST
It was Berkley who staged Ray Bolger's If I Only Had a Brain solo.
Miles EadieHOST
His vision for the number was a whirlwind of eccentric dance and high-flying fantasy, a sequence so impressive that director Victor Fleming reportedly told Berkley that he should have directed the whole picture.
Miles EadieHOST
However, studio executives trimmed the routine after previews, fearing it was too much fantasy, and the full breadth of Berklee's work remained lost to the public until its 1985 restoration in the documentary That's Dancing.
Miles EadieHOST
At the time, Technicolor was a science experiment.
Miles EadieHOST
Dr. Henry Kalmas, president of Technicolor, used the Wizard of Oz as a guinea pig for dazzling new techniques.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
The scenic design also came into criticism as the entire evening felt like 1920s and 30s stage musicals, even though it was supposed to take place in the here and now.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
After Barry sees his daughter sing rock, smoke pot, and be rebellious, Art Deco skyscrapers lit up behind him as if it were Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street, not Ed Koch's.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
The show had been capitalized for $750,000 and was projected to take in $180,000 for its first week in D.C., It took in $23,000.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
Now, the producers in this situation have two choices.
Kris CalvertHOST
But Hollywood Presbyterian had this...
Rob PottorfHOST
Wait, it's Busby Berkeley.
Kris CalvertHOST
Busby Berkeley.
Kris CalvertHOST
Sorry.
Kris CalvertHOST
That's right.
Derick McDuffHOST
Like, there's a, where they're jumping in the water and they're raising up.
Derick McDuffHOST
I'm like, "This is straight out of, like, Busby Berkeley or something," like those big musicals from, like, the '30s and '40s.
Derick McDuffHOST
So I thought it was absolutely hilarious.
Derick McDuffHOST
I was a little bit nervous doing this anthology one in general, because comedies is, are so, you know, subjective, especially comedies from this era.
Michael HansonHOST
As he rounded the cornice of the Time Motion Study building, he saw the shift just boarding the slidewalk.
Michael HansonHOST
With practiced motion and an absolute conservation of movement, they sidestepped up onto the slow strip and, in a chorus line reminiscent of a Busby Berkeley film of the antediluvian nineteen thirties, advanced across the strips, ostrich walking till they were lined up on the express strip.
Michael HansonHOST
Once more, in anticipation, the elfin grin spread.
Michael HansonHOST
And there was a tooth missing back there on the left side.
Aisha HarrisHOST
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Aisha HarrisHOST
And guests to arrive, it feels Busby Berkeley-ish in a way-
Bhawani Dee ChaudhuriGUEST
Yeah
Aisha HarrisHOST
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Erin CarlsonHOST
She proudly carried a large bouquet of orchids and baby's breath.
Erin CarlsonHOST
The wedding was small, but then they hosted a reception for about 50 guests aboard the yacht after they said, "I do." A few in attendance were Mervyn LeRoy, Ori Kelly, Hal Wallis, Busby Berkeley, and of course, James Cagney.
Erin CarlsonHOST
The couple then set sail, traveling through the Panama Canal headed for New York.
Erin CarlsonHOST
They stopped for a little stay in Havana, where they attended a costume ball.
Arden MyrinGUEST
And that's why, but I just wanted to be like a, I wanted to be like a burlesque dancer.
Arden MyrinGUEST
Like I would see like, but we didn't have cable and I would just see like Busby Berkeley musicals and like a Mae West.
Arden MyrinGUEST
I was like, I just want to have a pasty and a sparkle.
Arden MyrinGUEST
Yeah.
Patrik SimpsonHOST
yeah
Arden MyrinGUEST
the fun of like yeah And I only had the shows that was like and I had I just saw rated-r I mean they would show me like Woody Allen movies and like Steve Martin movies I would watch Saturday Night Live like I had no rule so it was like I It was just like, oh, I'm going to get out of here.
Arden MyrinGUEST
I'm going to live in a Busby Berkeley.
Arden MyrinGUEST
I'm going to be like Dita Von Teese.
Erin R. BowlesGUEST
I know him from most, or maybe it's a recency bias of what I most recently saw, but Gold Diggers in 1933, which I will sing praises of because it's like a really fun sort of backstage musical.
Erin R. BowlesGUEST
And then at the end, there is this incredible sort of like Busby Berkeley style musical.
Erin R. BowlesGUEST
It might actually be Berkeley.
Erin R. BowlesGUEST
I don't know.
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