Posted @withregram • @oldhollywoodmusicals. Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire are elegance and romance personified in Vincente Minnelli’s film “The Band Wagon” (1953). The song they are dancing to is “Dancing in the Dark”. The full-skirted white dress worn by Charisse in this number was actually copied from a dress worn by the film’s costume designer Mary Ann Nyberg. Director Vincente Minnelli tried to buy it off the rack (it originally cost about $25), but no store carried exactly that type of dres