Argentine Tango danced by Anthony Dexter and Patricia Medina in Valentino (1951)
Hope you enjoy this first clip. Other segments from The Ultimate Movies Broadcast Show are coming soon. With much more to come along the way, too - movies, new and upcoming releases, interviews, reviews, music and comedy skits, etc. Feel free to subscribe and leave comments and likes. :)
Review:
This is the full scene featuring the famous Argentine Tango from Valentino (1951), starring Anthony Dexter and Patricia Medina. Dexter, a virtual lookalike to the real Rudolph Valentino, was a dancer in real life. Unlike today’s refined “ballroom tango,“ this tango makes use of a whip in the opening and closing moments, and Dexter is wearing real spurs. The original tango was often passionate and savage, and evolved in the barios of South America in the mid to late 1800s. It eventually became a popular salon dance in Victorian society.
No other tango sequence has matched the brilliant choreography found in this scene from the 1951 film. It has never yet been recreated for any other fi