Cast: Cyd Charisse

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Cyd Charisse. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Singin' in the Rain

1952 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen · Gene Kelly

Cast Gene Kelly · Donald O´Connor · Debbie Reynolds · Jean Hagen

Synopsis Silent screen stars Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont face a crisis when the advent of talkies threatens to end their careers, until Don comes up with idea of adding songs to their films. Unfortunately, Lina is completely unable to hold...

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8.1

47K votes

8.1

47K votes

The Band Wagon

1953 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Fred Astaire · Cyd Charisse · Oscar Levant · Nanette Fabray

Synopsis Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner, not him. But his old friends Lily and Les Martin...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Party Girl

1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Robert Taylor · Cyd Charisse · Lee J. Cobb · John Ireland

Synopsis Lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career defending crooks in trials. He has never realised that there is a downside to his success, until he meets the dancer Vicki Gayle. She makes him decide to get a better reputation. But...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Brigadoon

1954 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Cyd Charisse · Van Johnson · Elaine Stewart

Synopsis Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place....

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

It's Always Fair Weather

1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen · Gene Kelly

Cast Gene Kelly · Cyd Charisse · Dan Dailey · Dolores Gray

Synopsis Ted, Doug, and Angie are three ex-G.I.s who vow to meet again at a New York bar on October 11, 1955. They all show up on the appointed day, but quickly find that their friendship isn't what it used to...

7.1

885 votes

7.1

885 votes

Two Weeks in Another Town

1962 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Kirk Douglas · Edward G. Robinson · Cyd Charisse · Daliah Lavi

Synopsis An actor trying to revive his career after a nervous breakdown finds the manipulative characters in his life seem to be standing in his way.

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Tension

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction John Berry

Cast Richard Basehart · Audrey Totter · Cyd Charisse · Barry Sullivan

Synopsis Warren Quimby, mad about his beautiful but unfaithful wife, Claire, plans to murder her lover, Barney Deager. He creates another identity so that when he commits the murder he will not be suspected. He is painstakingly precise in every detail...

6.9

159 votes

6.9

159 votes

Mission to Moscow

1943 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Walter Huston · Ann Harding · Oskar Homolka · George Tobias

Synopsis Mission to Moscow was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the...

6.8

198 votes

6.8

198 votes

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

6.8

165 votes

6.8

165 votes

East Side, West Side

1949 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

6.8

324 votes

6.8

324 votes

Silk Stockings

1957 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Fred Astaire · Cyd Charisse · Janis Paige · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Fred Astaire took one of his final musical turns in this delightful 1957 comedy, a cold war update of the classic Ninotchka. Cyd Charisse, having previously wrapped her endless legs around Fred in The Band Wagon, plays the Greta Garbo...

6.7

693 votes

6.7

693 votes

Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (TV)

2001 · Documentary · 117 min. · United States

Direction Patty Ivins Specht

Cast James Coburn · Gene Allen · Steve Allen · George Barris

Synopsis Documentary about the moviestar's last months including her tumultuous love affairs, drug and alcohol dependency, depression and eventual firing from her final film, 20th Century Fox's "Something's Got To Give". Features several first time interviews with the people surrounding Monroe...

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

Ziegfeld Follies

1945 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Lemuel Ayers · Roy Del Ruth · Robert Lewis

Cast Fred Astaire · William Powell · Judy Garland · Lucille Ball

Synopsis The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

6.4

313 votes

6.4

313 votes

Something's Got to Give

1962 · Movie · 37 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Dean Martin · Cyd Charisse · Tom Tryon

Synopsis Unfinished remake of "My Favorite Wife" due to the firing of Marilyn Monroe from the film. She was eventually re-hired, but died in August, 1962. Film was never completed.

6.4

234 votes

6.4

234 votes

The Wild North

1952 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Marton

Cast Stewart Granger · Wendell Corey · Cyd Charisse · Morgan Farley

Synopsis In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime, and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman.

6.2

207 votes

6.2

207 votes

Deep in My Heart

1954 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast José Ferrer · Merle Oberon · Helen Traubel · Doe Avedon

Synopsis Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

6.0

52 votes

6.0

52 votes

The Harvey Girls

1946 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Judy Garland · John Hodiak · Ray Bolger · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis A frothy musical about the romantic misadventures of the Harvey girls, waitresses employed by the Old West Harvey Restaurant chain. Their ladylike behavior had a civilizing effect on their wild frontier patrons. Despite the rather thin story, the great cast...

6.0

112 votes

6.0

112 votes

Meet Me in Las Vegas

1956 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Dan Dailey · Cyd Charisse · Agnes Moorehead · Lili Darvas

Synopsis Chuck Redwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning...

5.7

66 votes

5.7

66 votes

Words and Music

1948 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney · June Allyson · Gene Kelly

Synopsis The plot is a hokey whitewash of the careers of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with characters talking in stilted phrases ("Gee, Larry, that's marvelous, really and truly") and complexities reduced to ground zero. But Rodgers and Hart comprised one...

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5.6

94 votes

5.6

94 votes

Twilight for the Gods

1958 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Pevney

Cast Rock Hudson · Cyd Charisse · Arthur Kennedy · Leif Erickson

Synopsis Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's earlier The High and the Mighty. This "psychological adventure" stars Rock Hudson as Captain Bell, who crawls into a bottle after being court-martialed and...

5.5

129 votes

5.5

129 votes