For fans of Hollywood musicals, the number of truly great dancers is short. Cyd Charisse, who passed away yesterday at age 87, would have to be on everyone's list. She's probably best-remembered for her extended "Broadway Melody" number in Singin' In The Rain, but that was her first major break, and not major role in the picture. She did headline in The Band Wagon and Silk Stockings.
Here, she and Fred Astaire, in The Band Wagon, dance one of the most achingly beautiful scenes in movie history.