# Attack of the Dancing Hotties! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138 "2006-10-27T16:24:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/1 "2006-10-27T16:24:03Z")
OK, here’s the setup. You are the casting director for a new show, “Attack of the Dancing Hotties” which involves celebrities who can dance very well competing on behalf of their favorite charities. It’s a premium cable show, so ALL KINDS of dancing is allowed. Costuming can be as elaborate or as absent as you wish. What’s more, you have a time machine and an infinite amount of money so you can travel in time and get dancers from any era you wish. Also, if you’re going to nominate someone who isn’t primarily and widely known for her dancing abilities, you need to support your nomination with scenes where they’ve danced, otherwise this thread will soon be crowded with nominations of staggeringly beautiful young women with three left feet. (You can of course nominate dancing guys, too, but really, who is there after Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire – don’t say John Travolta!) Now, who’s it gonna be? I’ll start with Anne Miller, obtained via time machine and, if necessary, stun gun. Boy, can she dance! Which is why it’s what she’s best known for, though she also was/is a pretty good comedian. (I’m not sure if she’s dead or not.) She can hoof it! Legs up to there and a great big grin while she did it, too. For traditional stage dancing, she would be hard to beat. Then I’d go with simple cash and get Julie K. Smith, a relative unknown outside softcore porn, who’s so good at exotic dancing that she runs a business on the side teaching other hotties how to dance exotically and otherwise. She’s seen at her best in Midnight Tease II, one of the best strip-club-murder-mystery movies ever made. She’s also shown up in a couple of Andy Sidaris movies – Day of the Warrior, IIRC, doing her signature moves in the opening credits. Well the floor is open. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/2 "2006-10-27T16:43:21Z")
Shakira, and she wears nothing but a g-string. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/3 "2006-10-27T18:20:53Z")
Cynthia Rhodes ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/4 "2006-10-27T18:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] Shakira, and she wears nothing but a g-string. [/QUOTE] A vocalist known for her hips, IIRC. I assume there’s a music video that impresses? I like the costuming … makes me wonder if Vida Guerra can dance … ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/5 "2006-10-27T18:35:37Z")
I would nominate British dance troupe Pan’s People – in their 1970s prime, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/6 "2006-10-27T19:25:46Z")
[Josephine Baker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker). Dunno if she’s any good or not, but she’s going to draw eyeballs to the show just from her name and history alone. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/7 "2006-10-27T19:41:09Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] A vocalist known for her hips, IIRC. I assume there’s a music video that impresses? [/QUOTE] [Here](http://youtube.com/watch?v=mQgzO6StnJ0) [ya](http://youtube.com/watch?v=F9J4QJgmI2A) [go!](http://youtube.com/watch?v=bnUexbFLkpc) And for Vida’s sake, we’ll say that ‘toe-touching’ is an allowable form of dance. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/8 "2006-10-27T20:35:49Z")
[Eleanor Powell](http://www.silverscreenaudio.com/images/logo-eleanor-powell-web.jpg), bare-ass naked. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/9 "2006-10-27T20:40:22Z")
Jessica Biel, doing [this dance](http://www.uselessjunk.com/article_full.php?id=12120), naked. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/10 "2006-10-28T01:06:48Z")
[Support for Ann Miller’s case.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYEUwCoidIc) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/11 "2006-10-28T01:08:24Z")
Support for Julie K. Smith’s case, in the form of vidcaps from Day of the Warrior, are definitely NSFW, therefore can’t do any life linking, but here’s a cut and past link: > **[Julie Smith :: Celebrity Movie Archive](https://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/movie.php/16402)** > > Julie K. Smith dancing and stripping on stage, wearing a mask and exposing her breasts. Hi-res DVD capture from \Day of the Warrior\. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/12 "2006-10-28T01:14:26Z")
Ann Margaret. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/13 "2006-10-28T01:35:44Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] Ann Margaret. [/QUOTE] …bare-ass naked. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/14 "2006-10-28T01:44:29Z")
Juliet Prowse, circa 1965-75, and, yes, naked. And another vote for Josephine Baker, in that famous banana outfit. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/15 "2006-10-28T02:06:43Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] [Here](http://youtube.com/watch?v=mQgzO6StnJ0) [ya](http://youtube.com/watch?v=F9J4QJgmI2A) [go!](http://youtube.com/watch?v=bnUexbFLkpc)[/quoute] In the case of Shakira, point taken, point taken very much. Definitely a top contender. > [@](#): > > And for Vida’s sake, we’ll say that ‘toe-touching’ is an allowable form of dance. 😃 Actually no, otherwise this is just another “pretty girls I like” thread. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s been done to death. One of the things I was thinking about when I started this thread was some of the Playboy music video collections I’d seen in which Playmates danced or “danced” to music videos. It’s very clear that some of the Playmates, although equipped with the normal number and distribution of breasts, have three left feet. Can’t dance at all, so the music video director just had them wave their arms around roll around naked in a sort of controlled flailing that he could cut bits and pieces of to combine with panning shots of them posing naked to produce a dance-like series of images. It’s pathetic enough to be funny, especially since those Playmates who CAN dance, like Rebecca Ferrati and Sandy Greenberg, are allowed to dance, making it very clear that the other Playmates are total left-footers. So now matter HOW good-looking an actress is, if she can’t dance she shouldn’t be allowed in the thread. I don’t know if Guerra can dance or not, I haven’t an iota of evidence either way, but if she can’t dance, she’s out. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/16 "2006-10-28T02:25:22Z")
[Nicole Scherzinger](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ZGGgbRge0) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/17 "2006-10-28T03:24:26Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] [Josephine Baker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker). Dunno if she’s any good or not, but she’s going to draw eyeballs to the show just from her name and history alone. Sailboat [/QUOTE] Oh, Josephine Baker woulda been a contender. She was red-hot. Here’s a brief sample, which may be NSFW due to major butt-shaking: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QPCYYdECJIs/hqdefault.jpg "Josephine Baker's Dance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPCYYdECJIs) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/18 "2006-10-28T16:39:14Z")
[QUOTE=brownie55] Cynthia Rhodes [/QUOTE] Stark naked, I presume? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/19 "2006-10-29T15:38:08Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] Stark naked, I presume? [/QUOTE] (Point being, Rhodes once famously declared that she would never appear in a film nude.) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138/20 "2006-10-29T16:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] (You can of course nominate dancing guys, too, but really, who is there after Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire – don’t say John Travolta!) [/QUOTE] Gregory Hines? Michael Flatley? Mikhail Baryshnikov? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attack-of-the-dancing-hotties/378138.md?page=2)