THE NICHOLAS BROTHERS - From the 1943 film, "Stormy Weather," the legendary (even then) Nicholas Brothers are featured as a flash act dancing to "Jumpin Jive" with the Cab Calloway and his orchestra.

FRED ASTAIRE - From the 1946 film, "Blue Skies," here's Fred Astaire at his legendary stylish form with top hat, tie, and tails.

Fred Astaire's dancing was always classy, sophisticated, and elegant while also highly athletic, rhythmic, and so very exciting. Astaire knew how to command his lean and lanky body to create beautiful artistic lines, and like the rapid fire of a machine gun, Astaire synchronized the beats of his tap dancing to punctuate the rhythm of every song strategically in step with the beat, or sytlistically before or after the beat. Simply put, Astaire was a genius!

DORIS DAY - performs "Shaking the Blues Away" from the 1955 film "Love Me or Leave Me."

DORIS DAY AND GENE NELSON - From the 1951 film, "Lullaby of Broadway," this is a light-hearted dance routine to George Gershwin's "Somebody Loves Me," with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and B.G. De Sylva.

HAROLD NICHOLAS - Harold Nicholas from the 1944 film, "Carolina Blues"

HAROLD NICHOLAS BROTHERS - Harold Nicholas from the 1944 film, "The Reckless Age"

GENE KELLY - Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron dance to the music of George and Ira Gershwin in this ballet sequence from "An American In Paris," winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture for 1951.

GENE KELLY - Gene Kelly's outstanding solo dance in the legendary 1952 musical "Singin' in the Rain."

Here, for 17-minutes, the music functions like a heartbeat in full exercise mode, it builds (crescendo) and then relaxes (decrescendo), and builds again into a climatic Boléro.

Singin' in the Rain - Donald O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green won the Writers Guild of America Award for their screenplay, while Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. But it has since been accorded legendary status by contemporary critics, and is frequently regarded as the best movie musical ever made, and the best film ever made in the "Freed Unit" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It topped the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list and is ranked as the fifth-greatest American motion picture of all time in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry. In Sight & Sound magazine's 2017 list of the 50 greatest films of all time, Singin' in the Rain placed 20th. Source: Wikipedia

ELVIS PRESLEY - "Jailhouse Rock," from the 1957 movie of the same name.

PICNIC - William Holden and Kim Novak dancing ever so romantically in the 1955 film, "Picnic." The music in this famous dance scene between Holden and Novak is composed by George Duning and Steve Allen, and Columbia's musical director Morris Stoloff blended "Theme From Picnic" with the 1930s standard "Moonglow."

Dirty Dancing - Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey - From the 1987 romantic drama and dance film, "Dirty Dancing."

FRED ASTAIRE AND ELEANOR POWELL - Eleanor Powell is frequently recognized as the best female tap dancer ever, and Fred Astaire is no slouch. Here, from "The Broadway Melody of 1940" are two of the best dancers ever showing why they are two of the best dancers ever!!!

Fred Astaire & Eleanor Powell - Jukebox Dance from "The Broadway Melody of 1940"

By the way, for those of you who believe getting older is terrible and that your body goes to pot, Fred Astaire was born on May 10, 1899. So, when "The Broadway Melody of 1940" was released Astaire was 41! When he filmed Easter Parade with 26-year-old Judy Garland in 1948 Astaire was 49. When he filmed Silk Stockings with 35-year-old Cyd Charisse in a 1957 Astaire was 58. Below is 54-year-old Astaire with Charisse in "The Girl Hunt Ballad" from the 1953 film, "Band Wagon.

BOB HOPE AND JAMES CAGNEY - From the classic 1955 film, "The Seven Little Foys," these guys are classic "hoofers," and they are clearly having fun, which makes it fun for us to watch!