I am not the worst dancer in the world but I'm probably in the bottom two. I mean, I'm really terrible. When I broke my ankle last year, the surgeon who fixed it said "In no time at all, you'll be up and dancing." I offered to bet him everything I owned that that would not happen.
Years ago, a lady I was dating who understood my total lack of dancing ability asked me, "If you could dance like anyone you've ever seen, who would you pick?" Many names occurred to me — and of course, anyone more agile than Swamp Thing would have been an improvement. But the name that came out of my mouth was Ray Bolger. She said, "You want to dance like the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz?" I said no, I wish I could dance like he did in the movie, April in Paris.
She wasn't familiar with the film. In case you aren't, here's Ray Bolger dancing — alone and with a couple of past presidents — in April in Paris. It's not a great movie and Bolger was miscast as Doris Day's love interest but boy, could that hoofer hoof…