Program:
Overture – The MGM Studio Orchestra
Main Title – The MGM Studio Orchestra
That’s Entertainment! – Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant, and Jack Buchanan (The Band Wagon 1953), segues into new intro by Astaire and Gene Kelly
For Me and My Gal – Judy Garland & Gene Kelly (For Me and My Gal – 1942)
Fascinatin’ Rhythm – dance by Eleanor Powell (Lady Be Good – 1941)
I Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ – Robert Taylor & June Knight (Broadway Melody of 1936 – 1935)
La Chica Chaca – dance by Greta Garbo (Two-Faced Woman – 1941)
I Wanna Be a Dancin’ Man – Fred Astaire The Belle of New York – 1952)
Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo – Leslie Caron & Mel Ferrer (Lili – 1953)
Be a Clown – Gene Kelly & Judy Garland (The Pirate – 1948)
Be a Clown (special material) – Fred Astaire
The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones & Margaret Dumont in the Stateroom Scene from A Day at The Races (1937)
From This Moment On – Tommy Rall, Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, Carol Haney & Jeanne Coyne (Kiss Me Kate – 1953)
All of You – Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse (Silk Stockings – 1957)
The Lady Is a Tramp – Lena Horne (Words and Music – 1948)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Kathryn Grayson, dance by Marge Champion, & Gower Champion (Lovely to Look At – 1952)
Easter Parade – Judy Garland & Fred Astaire (Easter Parade – 1948)
Color Change (That’s Entertainment! special material) – Gene Kelly
Temptation – Bing Crosby (Going Hollywood – 1933)
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart – Judy Garland (Listen, Darling – 1938)
Taking a Chance on Love – Ethel Waters (Cabin in the Sky – 1943)
Swingin’ the Jinx Away – dance by Eleanor Powell (Born to Dance – 1936)
Stout Hearted Men & Lover, Come Back to Me – Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald (New Moon – 1940)
Inka Dinka Doo – Jimmy Durante (Two Girls and a Sailor – 1944)
I Got Rhythm – Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra (Girl Crazy – 1943)
Be A Clown (special material) – Gene Kelly
Slapstick Comedy Sequence featuring scenes from:
- Battle of the Century (1937) (pies in faces sequence)
- We Faw Down (1928) (Woman fires rifle & men jump out of windows)
- The Second Hundred Years (1927) (Laurel & Hardy)
- Habeas Corpus (1928) (Laurel & Hardy)
- Leave ‘Em Laughing (1928) (Laurel & Hardy and Edgar Kennedy)
- Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) (Abbott & Costello)
The Wedding of the Painted Doll – Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown, and Ensemble (introduced by Jack Benny) (The Songwriters Revue – 1930) and (The Broadway Melody – 1929)
New scene of Sammy Cahn at the piano.
Lady be Good – Ann Sothern & Robert Young (Lady Be Good – 1941)
Dramatic scene from Broadway Serenade (1939) of Al Shean convincing Lew Ayres to write “For Every Lonely Heart” for Jeanette MacDonald.
For Every Lonely Heart – Jeanette MacDonald (Broadway Serenade – 1939)
Manhattan – Mickey Rooney (Words and Music – 1948)
Three Little Words – Fred Astaire & Red Skelton (Three Little Words – 1950)
Tales from the Vienna Woods – Fernand Gravet & Miliza Korjus (The Great Waltz – 1938)
That’s Entertainment! (special material) aka Shubert Alley – Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly
Good Morning – Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, & Debbie Reynolds (Singin’ in the Rain – 1952)
Triplets – Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, & Jack Buchanan (The Band Wagon – 1953)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Judy Garland (Meet Me in St. Louis – 1944)
Steppin’ Out with My Baby – Fred Astaire (Easter Parade – 1948)
Ten Cents a Dance – Doris Day (Love Me or Leave Me – 1955)
I Got Rhythm – Gene Kelly (An American in Paris – 1951)
(Love Is) The Tender Trap – Frank Sinatra (The Tender Trap – 1955)
I’ll Walk Alone – Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater ca. 1944
Ol’ Man River – Frank Sinatra (Till the Clouds Roll By – 1946)
I Fall in Love Too Easily – Frank Sinatra (Anchors Aweigh – 1945)
I Believe – Frank Sinatra (It Happened in Brooklyn – 1947)
You’re Sensational – Frank Sinatra (High Society – 1956)
I Begged Her – Frank Sinatra & Gene Kelly (Anchors Aweigh – 1945)
Ol’ Man River (reprise) – Frank Sinatra (Till the Clouds Roll By – 1946)
Be A Clown (special material) – Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly
Dramatic scenes from films:
- Grand Hotel (1932) (Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, & Rafaela Ottiano)
- Ninotchka (1939) (Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart, Alexander Granach)
- Strange Cargo (1940) (Clark Gable & Joan Crawford)
- Dancing Lady (1933) (Clark Gable & Joan Crawford)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) (Greer Garson & Robert Donat)
- David Copperfield (1935) (W.C. Fields & Freddie Bartholomew)
- Grand Hotel (1932) (Lewis Stone)
- Dinner At Eight (1933) (Jean Harlow & Marie Dressler)
- Bombshell (1933) (Jean Harlow & Franchot Tone)
Clips from James A. FitzPatrick’s Traveltalks shorts:
- Hong Kong, Hub of the Orient (1937)
- Stockholm, Pride of Sweden (1937)
- Beautiful Banff and Lake Louise (1935)
- Land of the Taj Mahal (1952)
- Colorful Guatemala (1935)
- Japan in Cherry Blossom Time (1936)
- Ireland, The Emerald Isle (1934)
- Switzerland, The Beautiful (1934)
- Picturesque Udaipur (1939)
- Old New Orleans (1940)
- Night Descends On Treasure Island (1940)
- Madeira, Isle of Romance (1938)
- Copenhagen, City of Towers (1937)
Dramatic scenes from films:
- White Cargo (1942) (Hedy Lamarr)
- Tarzan, The Ape Man (1932) (Johnny Weissmuller & Maureen O’Sullivan)
- Hollywood Party (1934) (Jimmy Durante)
- Jumbo (1960) (Jimmy Durante)
- Ziegfeld Girl (1941) (Lana Turner, Dan Dailey, & James Stewart)
- Private LIves (1931) (Robert Montgomery)
- China Seas (1935) (Robert Benchley)
- The Thin Man (1932) (William Powell, Myrna Loy, & Asta)
- Saratoga (1937) (Clark Gable with Lionel Barrymore, Hattie McDaniel, Cliff Edwards, Una Merkel, jean Harlow, & Frank Morgan)
- Two-Faced Woman (1942) (Constance Bennett)
- A Day At The Races (1937) (Groucho Marx & Margaret Dumont)
- A Night At The Opera (1935) (Groucho & Chico Marx)
- A Day At The Races (1937) (Groucho Marx & Esther Muir)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935) (Ronald Colman)
- Lassie, Come Home (1943) (Roddy McDowall & Lassie)
- Gone With The Wind (1939) (Clark Gable & Vivien Leigh)
Montage of Paris Landmarks (An American in Paris – 1951)
Maxim’s & Girls Girls Girls – Maurice Chevalier (The Merry Widow – 1934)
New scene of Gene Kelly in front of the Arc De Triomphe
The Last Time I Saw Paris – Dinah Shore (Till the Clouds Roll By – 1946)
Our Love Is Here to Stay – danced by Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron (An American in Paris – 1951)
New scene of Gene Kelly in front of the Folies Bergere
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise – Georges Guétary (An American in Paris – 1951)
New scene of Gene Kelly skating at the Place Du Trocadero
New scene of Gene Kelly walking among the paintings of Montmartre
Can-Can – dance by Gwen Verdon, Ellen Ray & Ensemble (The Merry Widow – 1952)
New scene of Gene Kelly at Versailles
The Merry Widow Waltz – Ensemble (The Merry Widow – 1934)
Cartoon Sequence (That’s Entertainment! special material) – Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly
Sinbad the Sailor excerpt – dance by Gene Kelly (Invitation to the Dance – 1956)
Now You Has Jazz – Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong (High Society – 1956)
A Couple of Swells – Judy Garland & Fred Astaire (Easter Parade – 1948)
Take Me to Broadway – Bobby Van (Small Town Girl – 1953)
Broadway Rhythm – Gene Kelly, dance by Gene Kelly & Cyd Charisse, (Singin’ in the Rain – 1952)
There’s No Business Like Show Business – Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, & Keenan Wynn (Annie Get Your Gun – 1950)
New scene (non-musical) of Gene Kelly with photos of Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn
Scenes from Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn films:
- Boys Town (1938) (Tracy with Mickey Rooney)
- Boom Town (1940) (Tracy with Clark Gable)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940) (Hepburn with Cary Grant)
- Pat And Mike (1952) (Tracy & Hepburn with Sammy Carter, Charles Bronson, & George Matthews)
- Without Love (1945) (Tracy & Hepburn)
- Adam’s Rib (1949) (Tracy & Hepburn with Will Wright, Judy Holiday, & David Wayne)
- Pat And Mike (1952) (Tracy & Hepburn)
I Like Myself – Gene Kelly (It’s Always Fair Weather – 1955)
I Remember It Well – Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold (Gigi – 1958)
Bouncin’ the Blues – dance by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (The Barkleys of Broadway – 1949)
Cypress Gardens Water Spectacular – featuring Esther Williams (Easy to Love – 1953)
Finale (That’s Entertainment!) – Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly (specialty material); Jack Buchanan, India Adams (for Cyd Charisse), Oscar Levant, & The MGM Studio Chorus (from The Band Wagon – 1953)
End Credits – The MGM Studio Orchestra
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The following musical numbers were in the original cut of the film prior to release. The first two listed below were included in early promotional listings of the song lineup that were publicized before the film premiered. The first two were also included in the early prints shown at the New York and Los Angeles premieres but deleted prior to the general release of the film.
Lonesome Polecat – Matt Mattox & Ensemble (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – 1954)
Concerto in F – Oscar Levant (at piano) (An American in Paris – 1951)
Drum Crazy – Fred Astaire (Easter Parade – 1948)
You Stepped Out Of A Dream – Tony Martin (Ziegfeld Girl – 1941)
Moses Supposes – Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor (Singin’ in the Rain – 1952)
The Stanley Steamer – Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Agnes Moorehead, Walter Huston, Denny Wilson, and Jackie “Butch” Jenkins (Summer Holiday – 1948). This number has the distinction of being the only number planned for, then deleted from, both That’s Entertainment! and That’s Entertainment, Part Two. In the former, a publicity photo of the number was sent out in press kits while in the latter it was seen as one of the song titles in the “Shubert Alley” interstitial newly created for the film. The ultimately deleted “Concerto in F” and “Moses Supposes” are also featured.