It was cute & funny how George kept dancing in the pool. I absolutely loved how George looked at Mary that way when he 1st saw her. I fell in love with his stare. He’s so handsome.
Doesn't the dancing-in-the-water look ad-libbed? Spontaneous? Donna Reed is laughing her face off. Seems like something Jimmy Stewart sprung on her. Amazing scene.
I have seen this film a dozen times, but when I just watched this clip and the "Buffalo girls" music started up I got teary...guess I'm just an emotional old woman! 🤣
I actually think these kinds of dances are so inherently wild/crazy/silly, people who would normally feel way too self-conscious to dance (like me) and could join in with everyone else and just have a ball. Unlike today.
at 1:45 the chap dancing from left to right past the camera always has me in stiches laughing🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣..no matter how many times I see this absolute classic fantastic movie.
This scene looked terrific in the colorized version of the film .. I know it's a minor detail but to see the color of the pool along with everything else being in color was quire magical .. Even the scene prior to this one when George is having dinner with his father we can actually see the green in the vegetables they are eating and so many other details .. I understand that 99% of ppl would say the b&w og version is the one to watch. But I really enjoyed seeing this Xmas classic in color. I think the transfer is nothing short of outstanding and really adds new life to the film.
Doc Hollywood sent me here! I was a HS junior when I discovered this classic film! And yet the only high school dances I had were Valantines Sweethearts and Senior Prom. And this scene makes me wish my experiences with dances were like this. Especially since music peaked in the early 2010’s.
Wasn't it over $50 bucks not paid for a hunting dog? He got drunk and broke into the guys house one night to get paid and started arguing and buddy shot him dead and skated due to forced entry.
Wow I'm 51 years old and I just learned during the year of the corona 2020- that was actually Alfalfa from The Little Rascals talking to Mary Jimmy Stewart came over and said stop annoying people , been watching that movie every year all my life and never knew that till I just saw a documentary on his life Carl " Alfalfa" Switzer.
Believe it or not, have never seen this movie! I know people watch always at Christmas. Love, Jimmy Stewart! Perfect dance partners! Didn't even let a swimming pool stop them !!! 🥳
Pretty interesting how a town so poor like Bedford Falls could have a swimming pool beneath a retractable dance floor. This scene was filmed at the gymnasium at Beverly Hills High School.
Bedford Falls wasn't poor. Are they had Potter's slums but that was only some people and until they got a loan from Bailey Savings and Loan and got a nice house.
@@CliftonPhotographer Well how many high schools have you known that had their own swimming pools? And of those that did, how many had mechanized gym floors which closed above them?
This movie makes being popular and well-liked look so exhausting. The expectations, being discussed/scrutinized, people wanting your time and attention… Some types are naturally good at maintaining tons of relationships cuz it’s they know. It has upsides, but I’ve had friends like this and it’s way more than I could handle.
Funny how the guy opened the pool to humiliate George when he fell in the pool yet everyone went in anyone and the two guys were like "what the hell?" And went in lol?!
"In my arms you're gonna be... as is destiny." "If you don't believe in romance? Then you'll never come to that special dance." "Mary ... not just the girl you want next door, but next to you, on the dance floor." "With that perfect partner, dance is so much more. So much more." ~ Paul Jung
Dance is not one gender nor orientation… the interactions of humanity through purpose and joy… Friends… community. Larger understandings of connections. Healing, growth, education… Jimmy Stewart had an anxiety ptsd attack on screen during this movie…. Connections matter.
I heard on another RU-vid video, that the saying just changes the town, in this case Buffalo, to the current town. Buffalo turned out to be the most popular one.
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." ~ Rumi "There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them." ~ Vicki Baum "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another." ~ Thomas Merton "An opus on life. Dance it out, to the full." ~ Paul Jung
what high school is this in real life? I know the gym over the pool still existed in the nineties because another movie did a homage to this scene. Curious if it still exists?
Jake Jacobs: “This is the "Swim Gym" at Beverly Hills High School. Sax Elliott, the school's basketball coach is credited with the innovation - and others including the first use of glass backboards in basketball. Sax and his younger brother Ian were star USC athletes. Ian was killed 1943 in England piloting a B-17 bomber during the war.” MovieClips video
I went to Lane Tech High School in Chicago, IL, which has a pool. We were forced to swim for PE my freshman year, and I get the impression that no one wants to swim because then you have to rush to get dressed for your next class. If they built a "swim gym floor" there, then you don't let the gym coaches have the key to open the floor and they can't make anyone swim.
2:25 Did you know there's a swimming pool under this floor? Any high school that has a pool should have a gym floor put over it so the kids don't have to be forced to swim for physical ed and rush to get to their next class.
