Saturday 22 April 2023

Choreography in Billy Wilder

Kim Novak deftly avoiding getting her bum slapped twice in Kiss Me Deadly.

The way Audrey Hepburn manages to elude Gary Cooper in bedroom in The Ritz in Love in the Afternoon.

How a line of ballerinas is subtly replaced by a line of male dancers who think he's gay, in PLOSH.

Another dance, on a table, in One Two Three.

'I'm just meeting my date' Lemmon tells MacLaine in The Apartment, motioning across the foyer. As he walks towards her, so smoothly orchestrated, her real date enters stage right and they walk off and Lemmon ends up at the shop behind them.

More, I'm sure...

(Originally 19 October 2021.)

Here's another one. Ray Milland's at the hotel in The Lost Weekend and overhears his girlfriend's parents and realises he doesn't want to meet them. She turns up and he's stood with his back to them with a group of three chatting in between them. As the group breaks up each of the three go off in a different direction and Milland beautifully moves away with one of them as though he's been part of that group.

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