Bolero - George Raft & Carole Lombard ⭐ Extra: Geo Raft Dances Sweet Georgia Brown

- Scene from 'Bolero,' 1934 American musical drama film starring George Raft and Carole Lombard. 'Bolero' is a pre - Code film.
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The movie was a rare chance for Raft to star and to play a dancer, which had been his profession in NYC, rather than portraying a gangster. The film takes its title from the Maurice Ravel composition Boléro (1928). William Frawley, Ray Milland, and Sally Rand are in the cast. The story is set in 1910 New York. Raoul De Baere, a coal miner wants to be a dancer. He dreams of moving to Europe and opening a nightclub in Paris...wiki, Bolero (disamb., film ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolero_(1934_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolero


- 'Bolero' film scene, jazzy dance number with George Raft and Carole Lombard.
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- GEORGE RAFT (b.1895, or 1901–d. 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s & 1940s. Career as a dancer: Raft went on tour as a dancer and helped popularize the tango in Paris, Vienna, Rome, London and New York. He had a great success as a dancer in London in 1926; the Duke of Windsor was "an ardent fan and supporter." Fred Astaire, in his autobiography Steps in Time (1959), wrote that Raft was a lightning-fast dancer and did "the fastest Charleston I ever saw."..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Raft
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- CAROLE LOMBARD (b. Jane Alice Peters; b. Oct. 6, 1908 - d. Jan. 16, 1942) The actress made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921) at the age of 12. In her career, the year 1934 marked a high point, beginning with the musical drama Bolero, where George Raft and she showcased their dancing skills in an extravagantly staged performance to Maurice Ravel's Boléro. In Jan. 1942, Lombard was killed in a plane crash while returning from a WW2 bond tour. At the time she was 33 years old and married to actor Clark Gable. Lombard was a Democrat. She is remembered as an icon of American cinema...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Lombard


George Raft dances to Sweet Georgia Brown in the WW2 period film 'Follow the Boys' 1944. 🪖

Follow the Boys also known as Three Cheers for the Boys is a 1944 musical film made by Universal Pictures during World War II as an all-star cast morale booster to entertain the troops abroad and the civilians at home...More,
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- Early film of Charleston dancers Al Minns and Leon James who originally danced in the 1930s at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, NY and with Whitey's Lindyhoppers.