Michael Feinstein's American Songbook - Season 3 Episode 2 Let's Dance

Name: Michael Feinstein's American Songbook
Genre: Documentary
Released: 12 Apr 2013
Rating: 0.00
Cast: Michael Feinstein

2013-04-12 48 minutes.

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Documentary musical history

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Season - Episode

3 Season 3 Apr 05, 2013

3 - 1

Show Tunes Apr 05, 2013
3 - 2

Let's Dance Apr 05, 2013
3 - 3

On the Air Apr 12, 2013

2 Season 2 Jan 01, 1970

2 - 3

Saloon Singers Jan 01, 1970

1 Season 1 Jan 01, 1970

1 - 1

Putting On the Tail Fins (1950s–1960s) Jan 01, 1970
1 - 2

Best Band in the Land (1940s) Jan 01, 1970
1 - 3

A New Step Every Day (1920s–1930s) Jan 01, 1970

Overview

Fred Astaire is Michael Feinstein’s favorite singer—but he also was the favorite singer of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and the Gershwins. Why was this dancer, first-and-foremost, so beloved by the America’s great composers? With that question Feinstein launches into an exploration of the marriage between music and choreography, unearthing rare home movies of Astaire rehearsing on set, and some remarkable memorabilia from that other screen-dance icon, Gene Kelly. Kelly stuns in never-before-seen footage of his Broadway debut in the original Pal Joey. Liza Minnelli struts her stuff in two rare vintage clips—including a duet with Gene Kelly. Feinstein indulges his inner Astaire with private dance lessons, explores the endless popularity of ballroom dance in America and performs the classics “Change Partners”, “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Shall We Dance” and “Let’s Face the Music and Dance.

Year 2013

Studio PBS

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Crew Amber Edwards (Director)

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