http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Charisse.html?hp
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:50 (eighteen years ago)
Aw. She was fuckin' awesome.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:51 (eighteen years ago)
What he said. Rest in peace.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:56 (eighteen years ago)
thirded
― get bent, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:57 (eighteen years ago)
Nice gams RIP
In The Band Wagon, I actually prefer the scene where it's her and Astaire walking in the park to the big lolspillane finale.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:59 (eighteen years ago)
nooooooooooo
RIP
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:01 (eighteen years ago)
Great dancer...
― Michael White, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:02 (eighteen years ago)
they'll be able to dance in the dark once more...
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:03 (eighteen years ago)
RIP. Wasn't there just a thread about her in the past few days?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:21 (eighteen years ago)
she was wonderful. RIP.
― jed_, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:22 (eighteen years ago)
RIP. My fave of hers is It's Always Fair Weather, a musical I recommend to people who hate musicals.
Also, Joseph Pevney, director of my all-time fave Joan Crawford film Female on the Beach, RIP.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:26 (eighteen years ago)
RIP Party Girl
― Joe, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:53 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EL05alymtI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUY9FAqRg4I
― Joe, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 22:59 (eighteen years ago)
Legs for days...
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:08 (eighteen years ago)
Cyd Charisse - Baby You Knock Me Out from It's Always Fair Weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKdUmQGWlYg
you got me hangin' on the ropes
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:13 (eighteen years ago)
awesome
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:19 (eighteen years ago)
As awesome as "Baby You Knock Me Out," is, though, it pains me to admit that Dolores Grey steals the movie from Charisse with "Thanks A Lot But No Thanks," one of the most outrageous musical numbers ever pinned to celluloid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGBOVV1Gdo
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:30 (eighteen years ago)
this is the cyd charisse thread, you clown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWBOfsXsDA&feature=related
when I saw this at the Castro, at Cyd's pressed slide down Gene's calf at 2:15 my date audibly gasped, grabbed my wrist and then crossed her legs
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:40 (eighteen years ago)
ha ha thigh not calf, though maybe there's a deleted scene out there where she slides all the way to the floor
watching Fair Weather tonight
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:44 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.pettipond.com/laterimages/image_ce/cydcharisse/charisse.jpg
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:52 (eighteen years ago)
I mistakenly claimed it was she in "Daddy Long Legs" yesterday. The gent I was speaking to thought it was audrey Hepburn. We're both dumb! (But at least I chose a singer and dancer.)
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:56 (eighteen years ago)
Oh no, I wanted to live in a great big house by the sea just like her.
― JTS, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:57 (eighteen years ago)
Oops. Just remembered My Fair Lady. We are apparently equally dumb after all.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 23:58 (eighteen years ago)
By the way, I don't know who she is. I just know that there's a bad 80s techno song that bizarrely shoehorns her into the lyrics.
"I want to live like Cyd Cherise in a great big house by the sea"
― JTS, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 00:02 (eighteen years ago)
Well, visit some youtube links, for fucksake!
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 00:05 (eighteen years ago)
...and then rent some movies.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 00:05 (eighteen years ago)
or tivo the band wagon when it's on tcm on the 23rd.
― get bent, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 00:38 (eighteen years ago)
There's a great episode of Hollywood Palace with her and Buffalo Springfield. Only way it could be better if she was dancing while the Springfield was playing.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 00:45 (eighteen years ago)
That'd be...different alright.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 00:56 (eighteen years ago)
RIP ludicrously hott woman with great legs who looked awesome in oversaturated technicolor. I only have "Singin' in the Rain" on DVD at home, I might pick something else up on the way home tonight I think.
― Pashmina, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 09:39 (eighteen years ago)
Warner Bros. needs to get Party Girl and Two Weeks In Another Town out on DVD in the States ASAP.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 23:30 (eighteen years ago)