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Apr 25, 2016 - 2:40 AM
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meheuck
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Saw this sequence on TV when I was a teenager, never been able to find where it came from ever since.
It was a B&W movie, and there was a musical number in it, but I don't know if the movie itself was a musical. A woman is on stage singing a song, and to her stage right is a girl dancing. The dancer is slowly flanked by other women wearing sour-faced masks, while she herself is generally smiling as she performs. Eventually, at the song's peak, the masked dancers surround the girl and obscure her from view. When they disband and walk away, the girl is crumpled on the floor, and when she looks up, is now wearing an identical sour-faced mask as the others.
The only clues I can think of are that this TV station I saw it on only had films from a few studios, and played mostly stuff from a package of pre-1948 Paramount movies, but maybe a few RKO and WB titles too, but that's it. It's not, say, one of the classic MGM musicals - I've used the keywords of masks and dancers repeatedly and always get stuck on one of those bigger movies but they aren't it. It's obviously not one of the more famous musicals of the period, so I'm hoping there are deep catalog folks here who might have some ideas.
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Apr 25, 2016 - 11:06 AM
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manderley
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When you began describing your film memory, this immediately sprang to my mind:
In the Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire 1937 RKO picture, SHALL WE DANCE, there is an extensive ballet sequence where Fred dances with a large number of female dancers holding Ginger Rogers face masks, concealing their real faces. The appear singly and in groups from behind tall narrow revolving panels. Fred is searching for the real Ginger.
Eventually in the number, one-by-one, the dancers lower their masks and reveal their real faces to Fred, ending with the real Ginger.
This doesn't quite fit your scenario---there's no collapsing woman, and Ginger's face is not particularly sour---but time changes memories, and perhaps you've combined two different numbers into one memory.
Or perhaps it's another film. Is it possibly a musical short subject (of which there are many obscure ones)?
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