Quadruple threats-Looks, acting, dancing, singing

Well, Debbie Reynolds, of course.

Ruby Keeler.

Vanessa Williams? Not sure about dancing.

Rita Hayworth

Catherine Zeta Jones

Debbie Allen!

Gene Kelly.

Liza! Yes, I think she's beautiful!

Bing Crosby. I don’t get the appeal, looks-wise, but I remember my grandmother used to absolutely swoon over him.

Ruby Keeler was a terrible actress, dancer, and singer

Bing wasn't a dancer, though. (Though he had to do a few steps.)

Judy

Sondra Prill

Ray Bolger

Okay - "looks" only for a window of their careers and "acting" ability can be debated - but they DID act in popular television shows and movies.

Janet

Madonna

Cher

Timberlake

Ginger Rogers

Goldie hawn

R10 Just said it for a laugh. Though she wasn't really a terrible dancer. She was just a buck-and-wing dancer and that style was later replaced. Check her out her at @ 4:10

I know he is problematic, but Jamie Foxx.

Mary Tyler Moore

Miss Deborah Walley more than fits the bill.

Vanessa Williams did Kiss of the Spider Woman on Broadway, and that's a heavy dancing role, R3. BTW, I saw her in it and she was fabulous.

Ginger Rogers wasn't much of a singer.

Judy!

I think I'll go with Judy @R12. The complete package.

And R24

Yes, R6.

Beautiful Debbie Allen.

Gorgeous, bug-eyed Debbie Allen.

Renee Zellweger

Jeremy Jordan

Judy Garland deserves another mention.

Lauren Bacall

Dixie Dunbar

R32 = Lauren Bacall

Betty Grable

Audrey Hepburn and Rita Hayworth; though their singing voices were small but pleasant

Ditto Leslie Caron

Ann-Margret?

Waltz

Harry Conick, Jr.

Hugh Jackman. Not known primarily for dancing, but there are quite a few videos online

QUADRUPLE threats?!?! Triple threats are acting, singing, and dancing. What’s the fourth talent? Palm reading?

True triple threats are the following. Gwen Verdon Liza Minnelli Chita Rivera Gregory Hines Donna McKechnie Bernadette (she dances well enough) Joel Grey Andre de Shields Anita Morris Debbie Allen Hugh Jackman Sutton Foster (no irony involved). Stokes And oddly enough recently, Antonio Banderas. He can really dance… 😱

And brand new: Jasmine Amy Rogers.

And TONS of chorus and supporting performers who never got their big chance.:. But that’s as it’s always been.

Plus Carol Lawrence. Leland Palmer. So many others..: They both should’ve been a huge stars, but Bway changed.

Tom Holland is a terrific dancer, cute, and not a slouch at singing and acting. Jonathon Bailey is pretty close to the quadruple threat. He's certainly got the looks and acting locked, sings and is a trained dancer and gymnast.

Linda Lavin...seriously!

Dance 3, Looks 2.5, R44.

Shirley Temple!

Ann-Margret

Doris Day

Does Zendaya sing and dance? I know she was on Disney/Nick show

Gene Kelly

Me.

Oh, and I can also juggle knives. Kinda.

Rita only sang on the Carol Burnett show. Otherwise she was dubbed.

Vicki Lawrence

Ryan Gosling

Leslie Carron

Ben Vereen

Miss Ann Jillian

I would say Marilyn but idk if she really sang or was dubbed.

Katie Holmes thinks she’s one. I’ll never forget the Dawson’s Creek episodes where she sings and everyone on the show acts like she’s got this great voice. I remember thinking “are we hearing the same thing?” Later, she appeared on So You Think You Can Dance to perform a special dance in honor of the show’s 100th episode. I had no idea why since she’s never been known as a dancer. And based on her performance it was clear why she never will be.

WHat do you mean R59. She's a stunning talent

Karen Ziemba (also other talents noted as she is a DL favorite).

Annie Reinking. Gorgeous, brilliant dancer and I loved her husky voice.

R58 Marilyn really sang (except a few high, "operatic" notes in Diamonds, dubbed by Marni Nixon). She wasn't a dancer, though.

The Brady Bunch, of course.

R48 I forgot about Doris. She definitely could do it all.

Janet Leigh, sort of. Beautiful, and a good actress, for sure. But she also did some musicals and was a good dancer, and not a bad singer, though nothing exceptional.

June Allyson was pretty and could act and dance, and she did sing, in her own unique way. (at @ 1:30.)

Jonathan Groff

[quote] Vanessa Williams did Kiss of the Spider Woman on Broadway, and that's a heavy dancing role, [R3]. BTW, I saw her in it and she was fabulous.

When asked if she would ever do "Dancing With the Stars" Miss Williams scoffed and said "I am a trained dancer so I think not."

Irene Dunne

Dorothy Dandridge.

It's hard to include Fred Astaire because he wasn't very good looking, but he was cute and in the '30s was something of a movie heart throb.

Producer David O. Selznick took a chance on him, saying, “I am uncertain about the man, but I feel, in spite of his enormous ears and bad chin line, that his charm is so tremendous that it comes through even in this wretched test.”

Dancing with the Stars is for has beens which Vanessa Williams is not. That's like asking Meryl to do Hollywood Squares.

You're saying Paul Lynde on Hollywood Squares was a has-been?

Lesley Ann Warren

Julie Andrews

Dean Martin (he did dance in his musicals w/Jerry Lewis).

Joey Heatherton

Excuse me, bitches! I was the first fucking EGOT!

And also R74 having a trained dancer as a contestant would be cheating

Ruby (in her 60s) and the chorus dancers killed it at the 1972 Tony Awards

Her dancing looks more impressive at that age

R83 She also doesn't look at her feet, something she had a habit of doing earlier.

[quote] Dorothy Dandridge.

Umm...have you heard Dorothy's singing?

R85 Yes. What's wrong with it?

[quote]Umm...have you heard Dorothy's singing?

Ginger Rogers wasn't much of a singer??

Yeah I guess that's why George & Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Harry Warren and Irving Berlin trusted her with introducing so many of their hit songs.

Among the many songs she introduced were: They All Laughed, The Continental (Oscar winner), But Not For Me, Embraceable You, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, A Fine Romance, Pick Yourself Up, Let Yourself Go, We're in the Money and Shuffle Off to Buffalo.

Vanessa Williams is still dancing at 60+

Taylor Trensch

[quote]Audrey Hepburn

Seriously?

Audrey Hepburn is actually a very good choice.

[quote]Audrey Hepburn is actually a very good choice.

Thin voice, passable dance with a good partner, looks good, acting....meh.

I don't think she was a great actresses. She had a tremendous amount of charisma and appeal on the screen. But she wasn't a great actress. Other than Wait Until Dark and The Nun's Story, I never saw give a great performance. Deborah Kerr was more deserving the year AH won for Roman Holiday.

Gene Kelly - ok maybe singing was acceptable only.

Judy Garland - she was pretty, then lost her looks, sadly.

David Bowie

Jeff Stryker.

Divine

Little Miss Alice Faye!

Some people have said Debbie Allen but could she really sing? I know she did Bway, most notably WSS and Sweet Charity, Her album was horrendous, so overproduced with layers upon layers of electronic sounds that no one could tell if she could really sing

Jonathan Groff

[quote]Vanessa Williams is still dancing at 60+

I love Vanessa but that song and video are embarrassingly bad

[quote]QUADRUPLE threats?!?! Triple threats are acting, singing, and dancing. What’s the fourth talent? Palm reading?

Read the title

Diana Ross

R102 the fourth talent for men can be sizemeat.

Agree about Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan is a quintuple threat, because he has looks, can act, sing, and dance, but he is also sexually desirable!!

I can add a fifth for which I was much lauded!

Steve Martin

Gaga. Don’t like it? Fuck off.

Steve Martin link

Jesse L. Martin

Aaliyah Haughton

Harry Belafonte

Did old blue eyes dance? If so Frank Sinatra.

Of all the people listed here I see only one-Doris Day. She had the looks, danced, sang where you actually bought her records and could do drama and comedy. Everybody else was only passable in one category enough to get by. Fred Astaire did not have looks. Sinatra was made to look like he was dancing by Gene Kelly. Marylin comes the second closest but nobody would actually buy her records but she was a perfectly acceptable singer. Allyson was no looker. Andrews was a passable dancer. Nobody was going to buy Gene Kelly records.

Cagney though gives the greatest all around performance in a musical. He is an astonishing performer. Maybe the greatest. Orson Welles even said it. Cagney could play to the last row of the second balcony and still keep it within the confines of a screen.

Jasmine Guy

[quote]Of all the people listed here I see only one-Doris Day.

Grammy and Golden Globe winning actress, singer, dancer, and director, Madonna, was mentioned.

Doris Day was actually a dancer before she switched to singing

Audrey Hepburn was a trained ballet dancer

Not one of R15 list passes more than one or two.

Rogers was fabulous in the 30s. Introduced classic songs and had a body to die for but nobody buys Ginger Roger records. On youtube watch her sing Music Makes Me in a very revealing costume. And the sculptural beauty of her body is simply beyond belief as one can see in Never Gonna Dance and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes both by Jerome Kern where her back and shoulders are revealed.. Both also on youtube. Garland had it all but was truly beautiful in only one or two films. Even by St. Louis the pills and lack of sleep were already taking their toll. And though not a trained dancer she could more than hold her own with Astaire and Kelly.

Hepburn dances wonderfully in Funny Face.

It is amazing that Keeler is a better dancer in her 60s after decades of retirement and playing golf than she was in her 20s. And I saw that Nannette. It was a fabulous party where everybody was charming, warm, talented and fun. And sang Vincent Youman songs.

Beyoncé Knowles Carter does camp quite well so I’m going to say Queen Bey.

R88 In my opinion, she isn't much of a singer. And I'm being generous. It's why she sang less than Astaire in their films.

Gene Kelly

Debbie Reynolds

Rita Moreno

Garland had good enough looks to be the lead in romantic musical films.

R122 - I totally agree. I started going through the songs R88 mentioned, but lost patience. Does Ginger Rogers even sing in The Continental?

As for Gene Kelly, I'm ambivalent. He does tick all the boxes, but I'm only a grudging fan. I always found something off-putting about him. He always seemed like he was begging to be liked. I have the same reaction to Jay Leno, who is nowhere near as talented as Kelly was.

Chita Rivera

R126, looks?

I'm surprised no one mentioned Shirley MacLaine.

R128 Because of the "looks" part.

R129 And because of the "singing" part.

Ginger Rogers can be seen on YouTube in Hello Dolly and Mame, singing Until the Parade Passes By, and If He Walked into My Life. She learned a technique to project songs like this to a certain extent, but good singing was not her gift.

Go to bed, Debra @ R129.

Alice Faye?

Ann Sothern.

Betty Grable

Can't believe no one has mentioned Vivian Vance.

Betty Garrett (come on, she wasn't bad looking).

Josephine Baker

[quote] Harry Conick, Jr.

Yes, his acting is truly sublime.

If we substitute sexy for good looking, then Jamie Foxx owns this thread.

The whole idea of a "triple threat" is so outdated now.

Doris Day was about as pretty as Ginger Rogers' voice.

Betty Hutton (for a few years in the 1940s).

Matt Bomer

Jonathan Groff owns this thread and he does it effortlessly to the point some people don't even notice how talented he is.

Mitzi Gaynor?

Peter Gallagher has a wonderful voice and is (was) very good looking…did he dance?

[quote] Doris Day was about as pretty as Ginger Rogers' voice.

Like Harry Connick Jr., mentioned earlier on this thread, Doris Day was gorgeous from the neck down.

You're all racist!

Why can't you give me the RESPECT that I'm entitled to??!!

James Marsden, and he’s funny too.

Oh, you fucking bitches, all of you!

Day was very pretty what the fuck are you all taking about. We are talking about outstanding in all 4 areas not people who get by in all categories. Like Johnathon Groff. Everybody else mentioned except for Day was lacking in one although might have been great in 3 of the four. Groff does not have a major bestselling music career on a major label. Nobody knows who he is outside of Broadway. The only one who might have come close is Elvis if he had more challenging acting roles with better directors. He's sensational dancing in Jailhouse Rock. Looks and singing speak for themselves.

R152 Harry Belafonte and Josephine Baker truly fit this bill.

Did Harry Belafonte dance?

Sutton Foster

The 3 most talented people in the industry today.

[quote]Groff does not have a major bestselling music career on a major label.

That has nothing to do with whether he is a talented singer or not.

[quote] Sutton Foster

Such a beauty!

Cher

Diana Ross

Not a fan of the later manifestation, but Maya Angelou did it all, and adding her writing she can be seen well-filling even more.

Wasn't Diana Ross mocked by her fellow Motown artists for being a bad dancer?

[quote] [R85] Yes. What's wrong with it?

Oh, darling...

Dorothy was what I graciously referred to as a "song stylist." Recitation of lyrics is NOT singing.

THIS is singing!

Carol Lawrence

I never understood why Hollywood didn't come calling after West Side Story on Broadway. She really was a quadruple talent.

[quote]Jasmine Guy

She is underated, r116.

That said, true triple threats do not exist, much less quadruple ones.

R115. One word JUDY. (I love Doris too. )

Ewan McGregor

Goldie Hawn

Ahem...Thread Closed.

Rachel Bloom

JoJo Siwa

Seriously, Lola Falana. She could do anything.

Lola Falana ~ "Theme From Shaft"

R164, Carol missed her chance when the WSS movie producers chose bankable 23-year-old Natalie Wood over 29-year-old movie novice Carol for the part of 18-year-old Maria.

Then Carol went and married Robert Goulet and they stayed married for 18 years despite her claims that he was a physically abusive, temperamental alcoholic. That kind of personal life can hamper a person's career.

Groff CANNOT dance or act. His gay ass walk dance is looks silly

r172, I get it and would never have expected Carol Lawrence to be cast in the film of WSS but I'm surprised she didn't make any New York based films by the likes of Sidney Lumet, Mike Nichols and other New York based directors which were plentiful in the 60s and 70s. And while married to Goulet, they must have spent some considerable time in LA for his film and TV career - she might have gotten some of it, too. Oh well, maybe she was a good mother and just didn't want to work while raising their kids.

Its ME!!

Doris Day was very pretty

There are lots of talented singers. He is not a star singer. Duh.

Not only was Day very pretty she had a great ass and legs this despite being in a catastrophic car accident.

Judy for about 15 minutes when she was incredibly pretty the time of Girl Crazy.

The only name who comes close might be Baker. And outside of Elvis who is in the might have been category there are no men.

Gene Nelson?

Jane Powell

Audrey

Ricky Martin

R173, have you seen Mindhunter or Groff dancing Sutton's part in Anything Goes?

Could Robert Alda dance? He could do the rest and he was good looking.

Doris Day was called "Jutt-butt" by Bob Hope. She really did have that kind of ass.

Cybill Shepherd can sing, dance and act. She’s been compared to Ella Fitzgerald, she’s THAT good.

When I think of a quadruple threat, Cybill Shepherd is THE one.

R181 Meadows?

In At Long Last Love, Cybill and I displayed amazing singing and dancing ability

Audrey Meadows on The Perry Como Show

[quote]Betty Garrett (come on, she wasn't bad looking).

I worked as her dresser when she did her one-woman show at my college. Her eyes were beautiful.