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It's Always Fair Weather - Group Publicity Stills
Here are a few cast Publicity Stills taken for It's Always Fair Weather (1955), starring Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Dan Dailey, Dolores Gray, and Michael Kidd. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.

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Band Wagon, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Dem Bones Cafe Michael Kidd choreography, setting designed by Oliver Smith, in the "Dem Bones Cafe" section of the "Girl Hunt" ballet, Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse generating gangster heat, in Vincente Minnelli's The Band Wagon, 1953.
Merry Andrew (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Chin Up, Stout Fellow Public school teacher Andrew Larrabee (Danny Kaye) receives brothers Matthew (Noel Purcell) and Dudley (Robert Coote), who advise him to stand up to their father, his headmaster, their voices dubbed for the song by Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer, early in Merry Andrew, 1958.
Merry Andrew (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Salud The Gallini circus family led by their patriarch (Salvatore Baccaloni) celebrates the upcoming marriage of Andrew (Danny Kaye) and their Selena (Pier Angeli), director Michael Kidd with choreography to a tune by Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer, in Merry Andrew, 1958.
Merry Andrew (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Everything Is Tickety-Boo Now ebullient English public schoolmaster Andrew (Danny Kaye) has permission to resume his amateur archaeology, headed for Sussex with his theme song by Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer, spying Pier Angeli, her first appearance, in a makeshift shower, in Merry Andrew, 1958.
Band Wagon, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Dancing In The Dark Ballerina Gaby (Cyd Charisse) and comeback-track movie star Tony (Fred Astaire) have suddenly warmed to each other, strolling in Central Park into "Dancing In The Dark," by Arthur Schwartz, choreographed by Michael Kidd, in The Band Wagon, 1953.
Band Wagon, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) A Shine On Your Shoes Faded movie star Tony (Fred Astaire) hanging in a Manhattan arcade, kicks into a famous number, Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's "A Shine On Your Shoes," choreography by Michael Kidd, Leroy Daniels featured, in The Band Wagon, 1953.
It's Always Fair Weather (1955) -- (Movie Clip) The Binge This number known as "The Binge," Andre Previn music, Gene Kelly, co-directing with Stanley Donen, as a de-mobilized WWII vet, with buddies Dan Dailey and Michael Kidd, having hit some bars after learning that his girl got married, early in It's Always Fair Weather, 1955.
It's Always Fair Weather (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Once Upon A Time Perhaps the most technical of many distinctive stagings by co-directors Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly (who also co-stars), here in a three-frame number with estranged war buddies (Dan Dailey left, Michael Kidd right), to a Previn, Comden and Green tune, in It's Always Fair Weather, 1955.
Connection, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Who Killed Cock Robin? First of many performances which alone justify making the film, pianist Freddie Redd’s composition, with alto sax hero Jackie McLean, Mike Mattos and Larry Ritchie, bass and drums, William Redfield the filmmaker, Shirley Clarke actually directing, from Jack Gelber’s play and screenplay, in The Connection 1962.
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Come On Everybody! The Pontipee brothers, led more by tumbling Gideon (Russ Tamblyn) than eldest Adam (Howard Keel) dazzle the crowd in choreographer Michael Kidd's famous barn-raising dance from Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Stop The Fight! Having trounced the locals in an impromptu dance challenge, the Pontipee brothers wind up in a slugfest, also choreographed by Michael Kidd, in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, 1954.
Guys and Dolls (1955) -- (Movie Clip) The Oldest Established Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) comiserates with pals Benny (Johnny Silver) and Nicely-Nicely (Stubby Kaye) who then join him in Frank Loesser's tune "The Oldest Established," in Guys and Dolls, 1955.

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