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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.
Jan 20, 2022 · Though their relationship didn't really start until later, by the time Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire became a duo, they'd already danced with each other. As Rogers describes in her biography, " Ginger: My Story ," she and Fred Astaire met on the set of the "Girl Crazy" show in New York in 1930.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were the greatest dance team in the history of American movies. In the course of developing their partnership and dancing before the movie camera they revolutionized the Hollywood musical comedy in the 1930s.
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Apr 3, 2014 · Fred Astaire was an American dancer of stage and film who is best known for a number of successful musical comedy films in which he starred with Ginger Rogers. Updated: Jul 24, 2020....
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- 'Top Hat' (1935) An undeniably classic musical in every sense of the term, Top Hat is likely the best place to start for anyone who hasn't seen a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie.
- 'Swing Time' (1936) Of the 10 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, two are typically held up as the best; Swing Time is one. It does have one scene that has aged rather poorly, but otherwise, Swing Time delivers big time on what works about all the other movies featuring this pairing.
- 'Shall We Dance' (1937) Not to be mixed up with the underrated 1996 rom-com (which itself was remade as a 2004 American movie), 1937's Shall We Dance is perhaps the most overlooked Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie.
- 'The Gay Divorcee' (1934) Mistaken identities cause farcical, lovable chaos in an English seaside resort in The Gay Divorcee. The film has Rogers as a disappointed and alienated wife of an uncaring husband, who travels to said resort and finds herself falling in love with a dancer, played by Astaire.
Jul 12, 2018 · By Michael Sragow on July 12, 2018. Flying Down to Rio. Audiences knew them as Fred and Ginger. Critics call the work they did together on the ten films in the complete retrospective Fred & Ginger (running this weekend at the Film Society of Lincoln Center ), “the Astaire-Rogers musicals,” out of love and respect for two stars who, with ...
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers. Recognizing the dancing need was a dedicated Fred Astaire fan, Charles L. Casanave, who at the time was a well-known motion picture executive. He had a dream of sharing Astaire’s gift with the American public and approached Mr. Astaire with his idea at a meeting in the Plaza Hotel in New York City in 1946.
