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Nice Work If You Can Get It – Fred Astaire on drums

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Fred Astaire plays (and dances to) Nice Work If You Can Get It in an iconic scene from 1937’s A Damsel in Distress. This was shot in one continuous take.

There are more classics and dancing in the archives.

Thanks, Laura & Thuy.

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