Is anyone here noticing Bobby Rydell's parter, in light blue? That's Lorene Yarnell, who later became famous in the mime team Shields and Yarnell. A great all-around performer.
I was lucky as a kid to met Ann Margaret at the Fox Warfield Theater. She was there to promote the movie. My mom took me there. She was very sweet and pretty.
+Larry O'Brien I feel the same and bobby R came from my neighborhood in south philly as part of a very talented bunch. I watch him on this dance song and cant imagine if I was givin that chance that I could ever pull it off. wow.I guess talent just breeds talent lol.......
Fascinating choreography with a lot of emphasis on the arms and legs doing fast and tight maneuvers close to the body with a lot of side snapping with the head..I really don't know how they do it ! Incredible number, orchestration, and shot composition. And that series of brassy chords at the end from about 7:20 is so bad ass and in your face !! A real show stopper
Agreed. I'm somewhere in the 500's myself. It's so cool. LOL. It just is. I don't normally notice choreography but this is interesting and just downright....cool.
Ann Margaret wasn't supposed to get much attention in this movie, but while making it, the bosses so how talented she was and wrote more scenes just to show her talents.
When Ann-Margaret dances she enters into a sphere were if you do not follow her, you will be left behind! That is the awesomness of this dancer! To know that you are in your own element of your gifting, yet invite everyone else into the party! Ann-Margaret is truly an awesome, magifincent, outstanding dancer!
I can't get enough of this scene. It's always a killer on so many levels. So much talent packed into one really cool dance scene. Ann and Bobby nail it. All this plus Paul Lynde, Dick Van Dyke and Ed Sullivan? You betcha.
This is the most fabulous thing ever! Nothing better than seeing American kids dance! Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson-just the best- and Anne Margret, lovely and exquisite Anne Margret has to be the bomb shells to end all bomb shells. She makes Madonna pale in comparison and does it without revealing a thing!
YES!!! I remember Richard Gere in "Chicago" and they made a big deal that he could dance. They would do a torso shot and then cut to his feet. I still am not sure he can dance.
David G. Or Moulin Rouge. They made such a big deal over the dance numbers and then they wouldn’t show full shots of the actual dances. Look how Fred Astaire’s dances were filmed- show the damn dance!
I love this choreography. Ann Margaret was fantastic and Bobby Rydell who is really a singer, danced great! Who ever staged it made sure the colors of the costumes looked perfect from a distance with Ann Margaret's hot pink the focus. Great number!
The choreography is the best ever for mob dancing ~ especially for the early 1960"s. I could watch daily. RIP Bobby Rydell - you danced/trained so well. High praise to all the dancers of this troop.
Still feeling the grief of Bobby Rydell's passing. His songs were part of my teenage years growing-up. Times were so much simpler back then. RIP Bobby.
Richard Donato On a White did the choreography for this as well as The Music Man (stage and film), Mame (stage and film), Oliver! (film and received a special Oscar).
Yep, Ann-Margret was great. Bobby Rydell always had a great voice but I thought he was kind of stiff as Hugo, at least in his acting. However, I've seen him do imitations in some of his other appearances and was blow away by how good an entertainer he was.
See what I mean, even after 60 years, this song-dance sequence is alive and kicking. Its truly timeless. Boy, what energy those kids of the 60's had. A new Ann Margret is yet to be found. Guess there will never be another Ann Margret. Meanwhile, go enjoy this movie and dozens of other musicals in which she has starred.
Conrad stepping into the midst of the Hugo/Kim drama and saying more or less, "Ha,ha, you all are cute. Let's remember who this show's named after, shall we?"
Awe… you have to see this movie from the perspective of the times in which it was made. I saw it in the movie theater when it first came out. We were sooo excited. It's a classic in the true sense of the word. And Ann Margret was the bees knees! :)
Yes, the Mamba dance scene at the high school gym in West Side Story is simply epic. The music, which was a spicy blend of symphonic staccato Jazz, blended with Mamba beats, thoroughly captured the tension between the rival, ethnic gangs. A masterpiece of choreography, singing, and dancing.
At around 4:50 into this, they seem to be paying some kind of tribute to the gym dance from West Side Story, even with Kim and Hugo standing still looking at each other like Tony and Maria.
imo...This is actually one of the best filmed musical numbers in movie history. The choreography is complex; the cinematography and camera pans are extremely challenging for the limited studio space they were confined to; the orchestration builds in its intensity; and the staging is almost mathematical in its precision. (And, of course, having Ann-Margaret in tight hot pink pants certainly doesn't hurt!)
I can never get enough of this dance routine & sing! Just love watching Ann Margaret dance during this particular segment! Loved this movie anyway but adore her !!! How talented Ann Margaret is!♥️
I compare any and all dance scenes with large numbers of people to this scene. It is absolutely insane how I’m sync every single dancer is. I just don’t know that I’ve ever seen another sequence where every individual is so dead on. Amazing.
My mother always hated Ann Margret but, she really knew how to dance. Best scene in a movie that pokes fun at Elvis and his fans. It was the Spinal Tap of 1963!
Bobby Rydell, the epitome of the early ‘60s “teen idol,” who parlayed that fame into a starring role opposite Ann-Margret in the 1963 film “Bye Bye Birdie,” died Tuesday April 5, 2022 at age 79. The cause of death was pneumonia. His death just days away from his 80th birthday (April 26, 2022) was confirmed by radio legend Jerry Blavat, Rydell’s longtime friend from the singer’s South Philadelphia stomping grounds. Bobby Rydell had 34 singles chart on the Billboard Hot 100, the most well-remembered of which include “Wild One,” which reached No. 2, and “Volare,” a No. 4 hit. Other top 10 songs included “Swingin’ School,” “The Cha-Cha-Cha.” His run of top 10 songs began with “We Got Love,” which reached No. 6 in 1959, and ended with “Forget Him” in 1964.
As a teen, I sat in the theater mesmerized by this dance scene in this movie. Must have taken them weeks to get it just right. I was in love with Ann Margret
This is 15 years before "Grease." Onna White's inventive choreography is on perfect display in this number and Ann-Margret's sexiness melts the screen.
This was some terrific choreography performed by superb dancers. Along with West Side Story's "Dance at the Gym/Mambo" sequence, it's among my favorite movie musical scenes.
As a kid, my family and I would watch this every time it aired on TV. None of my friends knew anything about it, and I was so thankful that my mom exposed us to such great fare. I was maybe 8 but wanted so badly to be a Yale or Purdue man...whatever that meant. I was oh so willing to put childhood behind me.
Ann Margarette was only 20 years old when this film was made. She was not a trained dancer, so it is impressive to watch her dancing in this film as well as others. A lot of it is natural "shake". In fact, she was chosen for the part when Bye Bye Birdie director George Syndie saw her dancing the Twist with friends at the Sands Lounge in Las Vegas. Of course, to be 20 years old and hanging in the lounge of the Sands put you well into the cool crowd of the jet set in the 1960s. Chances are, though that Ann Margarette was a jaw dropping sensation even when partying with friends.
Imagine your 11years old in radio city music hall & you see this,it blew my mind & now 60 years later it still makes my heart sing,its something I'll never ever not be amazed by, as a side note i seem to remember a very pretty girl on the staircase to the theater, later found speaking to my wife that she was there back then,was it her I'd like to think that it was her,we'll never know now, & evertime i see it I'm back there an astonished 11year old.
saw Ann-Margret for the 1st time in State Fair on tv as a kid. fell madly in love. but this movie especially THIS dance/song number literally pushed me right into puberty (lol). literally. that hot skin-tight pink outfit and the magnificent Ann-Margret was almost too much for my poor little heart to handle. glorious memories of this movie but mostly THIS dance number. thanks for letting enjoy my childhood for a brief time once again.
I remember sitting with the kids on Bandstand at your first appearance, and that fabulous Saturday night when you began the show - from a Hansome Cab in NYC. You were always so kind, Bobby. We will all miss you!
That is a deep thought! Moral for anybody trying to retrieve a lover in retreat!; Chase them away for ever or stand back and let them come back naturally and truly. If they don't, then it wasn't meant to be.
this is my favorite scene from the film. The entire movie is good but this one simply stands out from the rest of it! Ann-Margret was a great talent, she had it all! Beauty, great singing voice & dancer, you couldn't ask for more! This film was released in 1963 & the Beatles came to the US in the same year! If you didn't grow up in the '609s like I did, you don't know what you were missing!!
Bye Bye Birdie was one of my favorite musicals of all time it really showed the preciousness in the talent and the beauty inside and out that and Margaret had a real star that shined and a real decent person
I remember when people were boycotting in Washington and all over the place when Elvis Presley got drafted into the army it seems to me bye Bye Birdie was based on the fact that Elvis was drafted and Conrad Birdie played sexy singer and they have the clips of Frank Sinatra in Bye Bye Birdie which it actuality at first he reacting to Elvis like he did in real life initially like that ironically she met Elvis I think a couple of years later and they did Viva Las Vegas together and actually fell in love or had a romantic time. Together I think that is very ironic and Bye Bye Birdie made her famous
Excuse I should have edited my former comment a little better but you get the gist my point is that in Bye Bye Birdie she's acting to think like he was a the sex symbol which was only a movie but later on in real life she met the real thing the real deal Elvis. This was fascinating
After this movie I was a lifetime fan of Ann Margaret. What an amazing woman and star. Such an extraordinary range. I wrote my first fan letter to her and actually got an answer.
Bobby Rydell said in an interview that it took 2 weeks to rehearse this sequence, and another 2 weeks to shoot it. Generations not even born are enjoying their month of labor.
A fabulous exhibition of ensemble dancing. They were still doing great musicals in the 1960s. Wish this would come back to film. There is a bunch of us that appreciate this type and level of professional film artistry. A lot of movie money is being left on the table.
This happens every time I go to a bar! People break out into full competing dance numbers. I've been forced to drink alone at home because I can't go out anymore! Does anyone know of bars that ban these sorts of dance mobs???
I grew up on all the musicals --- Carousel, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Gypsy, Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game, etc., etc., those were musicals....... and Bye Bye Birdie was right up there!
Minnie your movie musicals choices are some of my favorites too. Also GiGi, Showboat, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Grease, Sound Of Music, A Chorus Line, Chicago, Hello Dolly, A Star Is Born, Phantom of The Opera, The King And I, Guys and Dolls, Holiday Inn, The Wizard of Oz, Cabaret, Gypsy, Hamilton, Music Man, Les Miserables, The Jazz Singer, White Christmas, Oliver, Viva Las Vegas, Easter Parade, HELP, Guys and Dolls, Funny Girl, On The Town. If I gave myself another 10 minutes, I could come up with 25 more. Always been a fan
@@tombennett3827 PHYLLIS DILLER?? COME ON!! ARE YOU CRAZY OR WHAT? YOU JUST CAN'T COMPARE THE GORGEOUS ANN-MARGRET TO THAT BAG OF BONES, CALLED PHYLLIS DILLER!!!!👎👎👎👎
Jesse Pearson (who played Conrad Birdie in this film) sings in this song that he is alive. Unfortunately this is no longer the case. He died of cancer in 1979 aged 49. R.I.P. Jesse, he was great as Birdie.
was it a british invasion or an english invasion? i mean, how ma ny scottish, welsh or cornish people invaded u.s.a. musically in the sixties? no any!! so, you see, it was an english invasion.
