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More musicals without Ginger, from the forties and early fifties.

The photo above is from Blue Skies, 1946. Fred is dancing with Olga San Juan; the dance is Heat Wave. These first few thumbnails are from The Sky's the Limit, 1943. Click for the larger version (most 10 - 30K each).
Left Open Almost Wrapped

This dance is My Shining Hour with Joan Leslie.
Fred is dancing the Dream Ballet with Lucille Bremer in Yolanda and the Thief, 1945.
Maybe a Reverse Underarm Turn

With Cyd Charisse, Lucille Bremer, and Gene Kelly in Ziegfeld Follies, 1946
Dancing This Heart of Mine

This is It Only Happens When I Dance with You with Ann Miller in Easter Parade, 1948.
Open; no hands
In the right two, he is dancing with Judy Garland, also in Easter Parade.
A Varsouvienne

These are from Three Little Words, 1950, and his partner is Vera-Ellen. At far left, the dance is Where Did You Get That Girl? The middle shot is from something called Mr. and Mrs. Hoofer at Home.
Left Open, no hands, samefoot: forward left Maybe an Underarm Turn

Dancing Nevertheless
He danced again with Vera-Ellen in The Belle of New York (1952). At far left, the dance is Baby Doll, and in the middle, he dances Seeing's Believing.
Escort Low Butterfly

Here, Fred is dancing Can't Stop Talking with Betty Hutton, in Let's Dance, 1950.
In Royal Wedding, 1951, he danced with Jane Powell.
Here, they dance I Left My Hat in Haiti.

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