Oscar winner Michael Kidd succumbed to cancer Sunday at the age of 92. Among the legendary hoofer's big-screen credits are Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Knock on Wood (with Danny Kaye), The Band Wagon (with Astaire), and Guys and Dolls (with Marlon Brando). — Ben Katner
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Question: Please tell me the title of the movie in which Gene Kelly danced with trash-can lids on his feet.
Answer: It's Always Fair Weather (1955), which was originally conceived as a sequel to On the Town (1949). By the time it made it to the screen, the character's names were changed and there were no references to the night they spent together in New York as carefree young sailors on leave. But the idea remains: Soldiers Ted Riley (Gene Kelly), Doug Hallerton (Dan Dailey) and Angie Valentine (Michael Kidd) come through World War II together and before parting ways at the war's end, they promise t
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