Cyd Charisse&#8217;s leg in the dance sequence that made her famous from the 1952 Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly masterpiece &#8220;Singin&#8217; in the rain&#8221;&#8230; One of my top 10 most erotically charged scenes in the history of film&#8230; not just because of the way Cyd wraps her famously gorgeous legs around a blushing Gene Kelly, or the…

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