Eugene Loring - Turner Classic Movies

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Eugene Loring worked on a variety of projects during her entertainment career. Loring worked on a variety of projects during her early entertainment career, including "The Golden Blade" with Rock Hudson (1953), "The Veils of Bagdad" with Victor Mature (1953) and "Yolanda and the Thief" with Fred Astaire (1945). She also contributed to "Ziegfeld Follies" (1946). In the fifties, Loring dev...

Filmography

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Torch Song (1953)

Gene, dance director

Something in the Wind (1947)

National Velvet (1945)

Choreography for "The Rumble" and "Faraway Part of Town"

Funny Face (1957)

Silk Stockings (1957)

All other dances choreographed by

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Pepe (1960) -- (Movie Clip) That's How It Went, All Right

Pepe (1960) -- (Movie Clip) The Rumble

Biography

Eugene Loring worked on a variety of projects during her entertainment career. Loring worked on a variety of projects during her early entertainment career, including "The Golden Blade" with Rock Hudson (1953), "The Veils of Bagdad" with Victor Mature (1953) and "Yolanda and the Thief" with Fred Astaire (1945). She also contributed to "Ziegfeld Follies" (1946). In the fifties, Loring devoted her time to various credits, such as "Torch Song" (1953) starring Joan Crawford, "Deep in My Heart" (1954) and "Meet Me in Las Vegas" (1956) starring Dan Dailey. She also worked on "Funny Face" with Audrey Hepburn (1957). Loring was most recently credited in "Copland's America" (PBS, 2000-01). In the fifties through the seventies, Loring lent her talents to projects like "Silk Stockings" (1957), "Pepe" (1960) starring Cantinflas and "American Ballet Theatre" (PBS, 1976-77). Loring passed away in August 1982 at the age of 71.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Torch Song (1953)

Gene, dance director

Something in the Wind (1947)

National Velvet (1945)

Dance (Feature Film)

Choreography for "The Rumble" and "Faraway Part of Town"

Funny Face (1957)

Silk Stockings (1957)

All other dances choreographed by

Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)

"Rehearsal Ballet" and "Sleeping Beauty Ballet" created and staged by

Deep in My Heart (1954)

The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

The Golden Blade (1953)

The Veils of Bagdad (1953)

The Brigand (1952)

The Mark of the Renegade (1951)

Dances staged by

The Petty Girl (1950)

Music numbers staged by

The Toast of New Orleans (1950)

Dances staged by

The Inspector General (1949)

Mexican Hayride (1948)

Something in the Wind (1947)

Music numbers staged by

Dances staged by

The Thrill of Brazil (1946)

Dances staged by

Ziegfeld Follies (1946)

Dance Director "Traviata"

Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

Dances staged by

Dance (Special)

Copland's America (2001)

American Ballet Theatre (1976)

Choreography ("Billy The Kid")

Meet Cyd Charisse (1959)

Life Events

Videos

Pepe (1960) -- (Movie Clip) That's How It Went, All Right It's been said that Bobby Darin's secret was that he could deliver any song like it was the one you'd been waiting for all night, example here with Cantinflas (title character) watching, tune by Andre and Dory Previn, in George Sidney's celebrity cavalcade Pepe, 1960.

Pepe (1960) -- (Movie Clip) The Rumble Second part of a long number in an L-A club where waitress Suzie (Shirley Jones, not a double) also dances, Eugene Loring choreography with two uncredited partners, her friend Cantinflas (title character) panicking when it gets a little too West Side Story, in Pepe, 1960.

Funny Face (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I Rather Feel Like Expressing Myself (Basal Metabolism) Continuing their philosophical dispute, now in a Paris cafe, Fred Astaire as fashion photographer Dick and Audrey Hepburn as bookish recruited model Jo introduce her solo dance, with contributions from Astaire, director Stanley Donen and choreographer Eugene Loring, in Funny Face, 1957.

Funny Face (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Kiss And Make Up After a minor dispute, in Paris, between Fred Astaire as photographer Dick and Audrey Hepburn as reluctant model Jo, director Stanley Donen finishes the song by George & Ira Gershwin and Fred solos, in Paramount’s Funny Face, 1957.

5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T -- (Movie Clip) One Extra Boom Busted by the singing guards, Bart (Tommy Rettig) and August (Peter Lind Hayes) are ushered to the elevator by Dr. T (Hans Conried), where the attendant (Alan Aric) does a strange song, in The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T, 1953.

Silk Stockings (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Siberia Ninotchka (Cyd Charisse) delivers bad news to the commissars (Peter Lorre, Jules Munshin and Joseph Buloff) who launch into Cole Porter's "Siberia," in Silk Stockings, Rouben Mamoulian's 1957 musical remake of Ninotchka, 1939.

Silk Stockings (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Red Blues Put forward as a deliberately "decadent composition" (a Cole Porter original), and supposedly taking place in the apartment of Ninotchka (Cyd Charisse) back in Moscow, the whole neighborhood takes notice, Eugene Loring choreography, in the MGM musical re-make Silk Stockings, 1957.

Funny Face (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Think Pink The de facto opening number, an original for the movie by Roger Edens and Leonard Gershe, Kay Thompson as fashion editor Maggie Prescott is inspired to wake up the next issue of “Quality” magazine, Eugene Loring choreography, in Funny Face, 1957, starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn.

Torch Song (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Smile, Or We'll Get Another Boy Not-quite-correctly billed as the first-ever shot of Joan Crawford in Technicolor, the opening from director Chuck Walters, who plays dance partner to her Broadway star, the real Gene Loring as the dance director, Harry Morgan playing director, Benny Rubin the pianist, from MGM’s Torch Song, 1953.

Pepe (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Faraway Part Of Town Cantinflas (title character) tries to persuade struggling performer friend Suzie (Shirley Jones) she can make it big, when Judy Garland does her cameo on the radio and Dan Dailey, as the director she hasn't won over, joins for a dance, in Pepe, 1960, song by Andre and Dory Previn.

Yolanda and the Thief -- (Movie Clip) A Day for Love MGM's Freed Unit offers its version of life in a Tyrolean convent school, with camera tricks and a birthday for the heroine (Lucille Bremer) in Yolanda and the Thief, 1945, directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Yolanda and the Thief -- (Movie Clip) Ballet Just the beginning of the sprawling 16-minute ballet sequence, to Harry Warren's music, staged by Eugene Loring, featuring Fred Astaire, from Vincente Minnelli's Yolanda and the Thief, 1945.

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