When Harry Met Rita...

The Regatta Café is a little place south of L.A., where the music plays way into the night. It's there that you can sometimes find Harry Berg.

This is Harry's 91st year, and every new day is a reason to dance.

Born in New York in 1914, Harry was a natural on the dance floor.

"I started dancing when I was 4 years old," he says. "My mother taught me to do the waltz and the foxtrot or the two-step."

At 18, he met the love of his life, Betty Pine, at a dance.

"I noticed her right away, and I tried to be real smart. I took a pencil and a paper and said, 'If you give me your address, we can go steady. And she laughed at me.'"

Eventually, things got serious. Betty and Harry were married in 1934. That made Betty his favorite dance partner, until she lost her battle with breast cancer in May of 1989.

Harry never was one to sit around and dwell on his problems. He worked out nearly every day of his life, and he hasn't stopped yet.

But his favorite exercise is dancing. As a young man, he won dance contests in New York and marveled at the dancers on the big screen, like the great Gene Kelly and the incomparable Rita Moreno.

"Oh, there's my gal!" says Harry. "I love Latin dancers, and I love her, especially in 'West Side Story.' "

His daughter-in-law, Vicky Berg, is now his favorite dance partner, but she wished Grandpa Harry could live one of his dreams. She wrote to The Early Show, saying, "I would love to put a smile on his face by giving him the opportunity to meet someone like Rita Moreno."Harry himself never expected to meet and dance with a big star. His joy is in his family, his friends, and with the dance music he hopes will never stop.

Harry and daughter-in-law Vicky dropped by The Early Show Tuesday, when Harry expected to be interviewed about staying fit as a senior citizen. Instead, he found himself the focus of that day's Week of Wishes segment.

He was presented with four tickets to the Broadway production of "Chicago" by Jeanette Roush of Broadway.com, to be preceded by dinner at the Rainbow Grill.

There was yet another big surprise awaiting Harry, but they couldn't quite spring it on him. Harry, not having been born yesterday, already guessed that none other than Rita Moreno herself was waiting in the studio to dance with him to the romantic strains of "Besame Mucho."

Maybe one of the reasons Harry was not so very surprised is that he had had a dream a couple of nights before, that he was actually dancing with Rita Moreno. "Oh, I just didn't want to wake up," he told co-anchor Hannah Storm. And when

"Harry!" cried Rita, opening her arms to him.

"I dreamt about you the other night! Oh, I love you!" he replied, going to her.

As they danced cheek-to-cheek, Rita told Harry, "You know what I wanted to say when I first saw you? Hi, sailor. My name is Rita. What's yours?"

Said Harry, "Rita, you have no idea. If I was six years younger, you would be in trouble."