Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Marge & Gower Champion 1952 HD 

Rest in Peace Marge Champion 1919 - 2020 😭

That rustle of her skirts in the beginning is something I haven't heard in a long time. I remember when it was common and part of the mysterious world of women.

What a lovely couple that made their dancing style look so easy. Always appreciated their beautiful dance routines.

This is the most beautiful dance sequence I have ever seen. Her dress & the set with the stars...so lovely.

La la Land has a dancing scene with a similar starry backdrop. I just keep coming back to this one, though.

This is sheer magic, elegance and perfection. There has been nothing like them before, during, nor since. A wonderful, adorable couple.

that dress is gorgeous.

Beautiful, elegant and classy. So dreamlike. Edit: revisited this again. I think this scene will forever live in my head rent free 😂 and I’ll allow it.

One of the most beautiful songs ever recorded along with the two dancers who truly showed us how a lovely song can be performed with Magical and Grace. Combining Exquisite Beauty and love together!

That dress is breathtaking

Now there's a couple who really knew how to spin! Gorgeous.

Beautiful

Wonderfull interpetation of the music

I know they divorced several years later, but for that moment in time what dancing, what chemistry!

Incredible grace and timing

Marge just died and a friend sent me this video. I have been watching and crying ever since. So beautiful.

They don't make them like this today anymore... beautiful...

Could watch those two day in, day out. Beautiful moved, so smooth, flawless.

Beautiful & timeless

Never got enough of this great dance team. All the greats just suddenly disappear

Pure magic and sheer beauty. Such elegance. A delight to watch ❤❤

What a beautiful and tender dance amongst the stars! So lovely to watch. Thank you for uploading this. ✨✨✨✨

Absolutely beautiful

R.I.P. Marge Champion!

Ah, back in the days when dancing was authentic, and a talented couple could project romance so sweet you wanted to cry.

One of the most beautiful dances ever filmed.

She is like Cinderella! Beautiful.

Rest in peace Marge. You're dancing among the stars for real now.

RIP Marge, at the astounding age of 101. A good life, well lived.

As well as they were known, they were probably underrated. Fred with all his beautiful partners dominated couples dancing, and Gene to a lesser degree. Marge was great but I never fully appreciated how smooth Gower was. It did it so effortlessly. He had unbelievable timing and was probably a lot stronger than he looked. Watched this many times and I still tear up.

Marge and Gower Champion were the last big dance couple of the Film Musicals in the 50iger Years. Gower was unbeatable, and he was a good Singer.

in 1977, I worked in the box Office of the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. At the time, Gower Champion was rehearsing Annie Get Your Gun with Debbie Reynolds and Harve Presnell. During my lunch break, I would sneak up to the second balcony and watch this brilliant dancer/choreographer rehearse. I was an aspiring actress at the time and eagerly took every opportunity to soak up as much as I could of the profession I sought to enter by observing masters like Gower Champion. Nobody knew then that he wouldn't be with us for very much longer when he died on the opening night of 42nd Street (which he directed) in the early 80s from a rare blood disorder. Happily, Marge is still with us.

what a handsome couple. during the spins it looks like the film was sped up, they were that hood.

I saw them together on broadway, 1954 Me and Juliet!

My LA, Hollywood, Ca grandparents' during this era lived around the corner from 'RKO Gower Pictures' on N Bronson Ave which in Late '57 became 'Desilu Gower Studios' where some of these cinema classics might have been filmed in part ??

Man! It's amazing the sound those three guys lay down with just a squeeze box, a bass and a fiddle.

I come back to watch this magnificent clip of Marge and Gower Champion periodically just to see remind me what real dancing is like. I so loved them since I was in high school and thanks to RU-vid and the person who is sharing this clip, I can keep the faith, as it were. Marge and Gower Champion are and always will be the BEST of the Best. I wish I knew where to send a card to Marge. She is just so very special and her legacy is priceless.

Among the greatest dance teams in show biz. Problem? More great dancers than there were great roles. He did some award winning choreography on Broadway. The good old days...........

Wow! I always thought that the only really good dance team was Rogers & Astaire but now I know different! Marge & Gower Champion are flawless and a passionate couple to watch. My new favorite. I wish there was more footage of them.

Pure magic I was brought up on these movies what a beautiful couple he was so handsome rip

Sweet and graceful lady who loved Jesus Christ is living and dancing in Heaven. I so look forward to meeting her there.

Heaven has a new dancer today.

RIP Marge ...101yrs old .....dance in the clouds of heaven now sweet lady 😍

R.I.P. to the iconic Marge Champion...

Great dance team elegant andsuperb

The choreography is brilliant!

Just magical.

Simply magical!!!

Just saw this in the movie by chance on TV fir the first time. What a gem. I feel nostalgia for a time before my own. Only timeless things can do that.

Gower Champion must be regarded as the greatest dancer in motion picture history. He could literally sweep the lady off her feet and to do it with poise, grace, balance and charm. Bravo!

stunning , the days of real tallent

Goodnight, Marge.

They are magic together!!!

Gorgeous. They don't make them like this any more, though I think the makers of La La Land have seen this!

Che bel ricordo... Il film si intitola in italiano MODELLE DI LUSSO...

In loving memory of Marjorie Celeste Belcher Champion: 1919-2020. Let's see, that now leaves Leslie Caron and Mitzi Gaynor; both are approaching--are you ready--90

probably their loveliest teaming in an MGM musical. they were in four of them. this is Marge and Gower at their best.

always timeless, elegant, and beautiful

Still gets me teary eyed! Am I alone?

So beautifully done......looking so effortless, yet a lot of demanding choreography displayed in this number. Bravo!

Beautiful, graceful and elegant! They certainly don't make many films like this one these days!

WOW! so romantic just love it

GORGEOUS...... wonderful song, and two super stars. Thank you for taking us down Memory Lane with this lovely number.

R.I.P. Marge.

Grace, beauty, and rhythm. Lovely!

Simply gorgeous. I strive to dance with elegance and style and passion, the ay they did in this video.

This was the great surprise of the film: as opposed to the Astaire-Rogers treatment of "Smoke" as an on-stage performance, this emerges rather organically as a love scene. They dance in the empty café, and when the camera zooms in on their kiss at 00:55, a little magic occurs when the shot pulls out to reveal the interior disappeared and replaced with a starry night dance floor. The scene is gorgeous- especially the final minute when the Champions (married in real life) swing each other around with complete abandon, and then actually kiss at the end. Stunning.

great stuff..love these old films..aftr gene kellyretired it just wasn't the same...

Rip Marge Champion September 2 1919-October 21 2020

White/pale color with cool tone really suit her.

Now that's how you toss a girl around! Very romantic.

Godspeed, Marge! Thank you for your lovely contribution to film and dance. Definitely Lovely to look at. Rest in peace, angel.

Always highly regarded but never given full credit for their contribution. Love how Gower floated with her with only one arm around her. What were those "thumbs down" looking at? Thanks for posting.

I've seen this video more than 20 times in the last month. Help! *-*

This was the best part of that movie, along with Kathryn Grayson singing the song. I just love these two dancers. Thank you for uploading it.

They were good, very good, but this had to be their best

Lindo!👍👏👏

There should be a law not allowing any couple who can dance like that together, getting divorced!

Susan Glaser and Jack Anthony, after reading your comments about Fred and Ginger and Marge and Gower, I was thinking about Fred and Ginger performing almost twenty years prior to Marge and Gower. I always look upon film for the time it was made. Fred and Ginger were trying to bring dance onto film like Marge and Gower did. I look at Fred and Ginger as forerunners and pioneers in the genre. By the time Marge and Gower came on the scene, the public was more accustomed to the genre, and a more "sophisticatedly trained" couple was right for the times. I will never take anything away from Fred and Ginger because much of what they did was ahead of its time. Fred was already a great dancer. Ginger became a great dancer because Fred made her look great, and the chemistry was right. Ginger as an all around good performer is many times overlooked.

talented dancers of the 1940s and 1950s Vera Ellen Ann Miller Marge Champion Mitzi Gaynor

Fabulous! One of my favourite dance sequences from movies

I always like them, but "Show Boat" was the only film that they were in that has been readily available. Thank you very much for adding this sumptuous and very elegant clip - wonderful!

RIP Marge 10/21/20

stunning! My mother always talked about them . Now I know why.

RIP 💚♥️💚

Oh! So gorgeous! Thanks you.

The fact that only 194 'normal-with-good-musical-taste'l' people gave this incredible footage a thumbs up, [out of our Earth's entire RU-vid population of billions lol ], shows me/you/us, what sort of world we now live in [for example, every EDM track released in 2016 gets 194 thumbs up, even if everyone hates it lollllll] - thanks vegas1a - a fantastic post :)

stunning!

Wow, great dancing, feeling, and kissing, all in one. :)

Just fabulous ❤

Omg this is too beautiful to watch

probably their best number, in MGM musicals. Msrge, so vibrant, Gower not so much, but supremely talented. Marge and Gene Kelly should have danced together in a movie. yes?

Very nice!!

Sept.2: Happy birthday Dancer-actress Marge Champion. God bless. Thanks for the upload, vegas1a. Blessings

This is simply perfect! Thank you so much for uploading this and for the info :) xx

MARAVILHOSO. SAUDADES DOS TEMPOS ROMÂNTICOS BRASIL

I have all their movies in my collection. They were my favourite dancing couple in the movies when I was young and they were part of my inspiration to fulfill my dream of becoming a dancer - along with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Hollywood certainly knew how to create the set and lighting to match the mood of the songs, this one in particular. Great camera work and angles with long-running shots to keep the continuity.

With the recent passing of Sally Forrest, Marge Champion is about the only surviving dancer of movies of the past.

just a clever way to dine and dash

Uhhhh...👍👍