Wow! Eleanor Powell was such a great dancer. This has to be among the best dance sequences in a 1930s film, and maybe ever.
Ms. Powell came from my part of the country- Massachusetts. This really takes your breath away. Apparently, even Fred Astaire was in awe of her dancing. I believe she later married movie star Glenn Ford,? and had a family with him. A great Hollywood talent. Thanks for posting it!
Yes, she was fantastic! She did marry Glenn Ford, but long before he was a star. They had one child, Peter Ford, who did some acting in his younger years. Peter has just? completed a bio of his father - "Glenn Ford: A Life". Look for it at bookstores next spring.
Eleanor Powell - "Duchess of Idaho" Cameo
Eleanor Powell's last big-screen appearance - other than clips in compilation movies of the 1970s-90s
("That's Entertainment" and its successors) - was a cameo in this 1950 film. MGM had moved on from lavish
tap dance productions to extravagant water ballets, with Esther Williams as their new female star.
Eleanor spent the next few years leading an Emmy award-winning local religious show for children, while raising her son Peter.
In the early 1960s, after her divorce from Glenn Ford, she made a very successful comeback as a nightclub entertainer,
dancing as well or better than in her earlier days, according to the critics
Eleanor Powell - "Duchess of Idaho" Cameo
Eleanor Powell's last big-screen appearance - other than clips in compilation movies of the 1970s-90s
("That's Entertainment" and its successors) - was a cameo in this 1950 film. MGM had moved on from lavish tap dance productions
to extravagant water ballets, with Esther Williams as their new female star.
Eleanor spent the next few years leading an Emmy award-winning local religious show for children,
while raising her son Peter. In the early 1960s, after her divorce from Glenn Ford,
she made a very successful comeback as a nightclub entertainer, dancing as well or better than in her earlier days,
according to the critics.
