Fred Astaire
Tony Flagg
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Carefree is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Ralph Bellamy. With a plot similar to screwball comedies of the period, Carefree is the shortest of the Astaire-Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers.
Carefree: Directed by Mark Sandrich. With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear. A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Mark Sandrich
- 1938-09-02
Carefree (1938), Astaire and Rogers' reunion film, was different from their previous collaborations. Closer in style to a screwball comedy than a musical, with only four musical numbers, Carefree focuses more on Rogers' character than on Astaire's. It's also the shortest Astaire-Rogers film, at 83 minutes.
- Mark Sandrich, Les Goodwins, Argyle Nelson
- Fred Astaire
Synopsis. Devastated that his fiance, radio singer Amanda Cooper, has broken their engagement for the third time, lawyer Stephen Arden shows up drunk at the office of psychiatrist Dr. Tony Flagg, his best friend, and begs him to psychoanalyze Amanda.
When lovely singer Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers) has trouble accepting the marriage proposals of her beau, Stephen Arden (Ralph Bellamy), he calls upon his psychiatrist friend Dr. Tony Flagg (Fred...
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- Fred Astaire
- Mark Sandrich
- Musical, Comedy
The final film for the duo helmed by Mark Sandrich, “Carefree” is the equivalent of a fan service sendoff by their greatest director. It’s a slight screwball comedy, but unites a group of legends associated with the iconic partnership in the start of what would be the closing era of their work together.
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User Reviews. The upper-class Stephen Arden (Ralph Bellamy) brings his fiancée, the radio singer Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers), to be consulted by his friend, the psychoanalyst Dr. Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire), to improve their relationship. Amanda listens to the record made by Dr. Flagg about her and has an initial friction with the shrink.
