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Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, nine of them released by RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1949, their only film in Technicolor.
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.
Berlin wrote "Change Partners" for Astaire and Rogers years before Carefree was produced. In addition to the omission of "The Night Is Filled with Music," a second dream sequence, which featured the Berlin song "Let's Make the Most of Our Dream," was filmed but deleted from the final picture.
- Mark Sandrich, Les Goodwins, Argyle Nelson
- Fred Astaire
Jun 11, 2019 · Of all the films Astaire and Rogers made together, Swing Time (1936) does the best job of integrating music and dance into a credible story. It also makes us wait the longest to see them dance together.
Dec 16, 2008 · "Change Partners" sung by Fred, danced by Ginger and Fred. Music Clips: "The Yam" (clip) (a .WAV file courtesy Rhino Records ); "Any Bonds Today" (clip) (a .WAV file) Lyrics: "Change Partners (and Dance With Me)" CAREFREE (1938) is a different kind of Rogers-Astaire film in many ways.
May 3, 2016 · By this time, neither Astaire nor Rogers were sorry to part. Fred still wanted to prove himself as a single performer and dance with other partners, while Ginger wanted to pursue dramatic roles. Without question, she’d worked particularly hard in the partnership: Fred and choreographer Hermes Pan would usually work out all the steps in ...
Aug 21, 2009 · Astaire had many exceptional dance partners throughout his illustrious film career, but only Rogers managed to transform the partnership from pure entertainment to romance.
