Juggling in Movies
Xanadu (1980)
[Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan]
The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. One of them, incarnated as a girl named Kira, encounters a musician/artist named Sonny Malone. With the help of Danny McGuire, a man Kira had inspired forty years earlier, Sonny builds a huge disco roller rink.
At 1:21:25, the finale begins with Gene Kelly, Olivia
Newton-John and others roller skating under juggling clubs being passed
by five pairs of jugglers for a few seconds. The jugglers included
Peter Davison, Greg Dean, Hillary Carlip, Albie Selznick,
Nathan Stein, Roy Johns, and Marc Schiltz Takoda. See the first
48 seconds of
this clip.
The entire movie may be seen here.
