Musical numbers

My post of links to movie dance numbers was so popular that I've seen fit to post some more movie musical numbers!

Friedrich Hollander & Sammy Lerner's "Falling in Love Again" from The Blue Angel.  This number, from the first movie where Josef Von Sternberg directed Marlene Dietrich, became her signature song. (Like Greta Garbo, she wasn't as slender in her pre-Hollywood movies!) It foreshadows how she's going to lose interest in her lover Emil Jannings, leaving him hopelessly humiliated.  It's an honestly sad, cruel movie.

"My Forgotten Man," from Gold Diggers of 1933. Who says musicals can't be realistic?  Remember that this was filmed less than a year after unemployed veterans did an early Occupy Washington, demanding a long-promised bonus, and got driven off by General MacArthur (with the help of Eisenhower and Patton).  Few of us have known the real desperation that was common then.   Joan Blondell was one of my favorite '30s leading ladies. (That's Etta Moten singing the real solo.) Choreographed by Busby Berkeley, of course.

"Lullaby of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935.  Why stick to just one Busby Berkeley number?  This one's a real stunner.

"Let's Face the Music and Dance," from Irving Berlin's Follow the Fleet.  Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers could do melancholy too.  Someone said that the song required Astaire's lightweight touch; a better singer would have ruined it!

Frank Loesser's "Inchworm" from Hans Christian Andersen.  I've always liked this number, one of Danny Kaye's signature songs, partly because I have Asperger's Syndrome and identify with the theme. (When I was little I calculated the exponents of two:  four, eight, sixteen, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024...) Really, numbers have a beauty all their own!

"Baby, You Knock Me Out" from Betty Comden & Adolph Green's It's Always Fair Weather.  Here's a fun number!  Did I mention that  Cyd Charisse was a 10? ("How strong!") Directed by Stanley Donen and choreographed by him and Gene Kelly.

"Ladies in Waiting" from Cole Porter's Les Girls.  I had to include this number, directed by George Cukor, not so much because I liked it as because it's so bizarre... (Watch for costar Gene Kelly in the wings.)

"Boy for Sale" from Oliver! That's the great Harry Secombe as Mr. Bumble.  This is another musical with a surprising amount of realism.

"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" from John Kander & Fred Ebb's Cabaret.  Directed by Bob Fosse, this number's a jaw-dropper!  What's disturbing about it is that you can see the seductive side of Nazi evil. (If you see this in a cinema, please don't stand up and sing along!) I like the detail of the old man who just doesn't get it--or maybe he's the one who does understand it... 

"Colored Spade" from Hair. My advance apologies to anyone who's offended by the language in Dorsey Wright's number, choreographed by Twyla Tharp.