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Classic Musicals From the Dream Factory, Vol. 2 DVDs, set $59.92, each $19.97
Perhaps the single most eye-popping dance moment ever put on film arrives around halfway through the 1951 musical Royal Wedding, when Fred Astaire, as an American star in London, finds himself falling for one of the performers in his show. He filches her photo from the billboard outside the theater, dreamily props it up on a table in his hotel room, and falls into a reverie that propels him along the floor, up the wall, across the ceiling, and down the opposite wall before returning him right-side-up.
Even in our blase age of mind-bending, computer-generated special effects, watching this sequence, available again on a recent DVD from Warner Home Video, is simply thrilling. And it isn't just because we're looking at the most polished dancer who ever lived. It's thrilling...
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