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Cat Dancers

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Originally broadcast as a documentary on HBO in 2008.
Release date: Feb. 24, 2009.
Bonus features: interviews with exotic cat industry insiders, filmmaker biography.
Narrator: Ron Holiday.
The stranger-than-fiction tale of love and tragedy that follows a husband and wife team of exotic cat entertainers as they bring a young man and an unpredictable white tiger into their act and their lives. Includes deleted scenes, interviews, and filmmaker biography.
DVD, NTSC, Dolby Digital Stereo.

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A Most Dramatic Dance submitted by whoisdonald on August 19, 2013, 8:15am This film reveals the dramatic lives of the famous dance, exotic animal trainers – Cat Dancers. Told through interviews with a world-weary but bare-it-all bravado of a 70-year old Ron Holiday, the surviving member of the group, Cat Dancers achieves a level of intimacy rare for documentaries. Elevating this film to a special, spotlighted stage is the inclusion of material that vividly illustrates the Holiday's story. The skilled camerawork of Amanda Micheli (whose own feature documentary "Double Dare" is highly recommended) brings us inches from the power and beauty of these massive cats, along with Ron Holiday's on camera catharsis. Archival footage, including stunning shots from Ron and Joy's early days as the world's top acrobatic adagio dancers, gives us glimpses into how the relationships of the Holidays (both to their cats and their love lives), evolved in a unexpected and unique ways.

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Distributed by New Video, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1422935914
9781422935910

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Holiday, Ron, 1939-
Micheli, Amanda.
Fishman, Harris.
HBO Documentary Films.
Artists/Industry (Firm)
Cactus Three (Firm)
Submarine (Firm)
Home Box Office (Firm)
New Video Group.
Docurama (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Holiday, Ron, -- 1939-
Holiday, Joy, -- 1936-
Lizza, Chuck.
Exotic animal owners.
Entertainers -- United States.
Documentary films.
Biographical films.