Astaire and Rogers

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An old post from 2013, remembering my love of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire films. Most of you have never seen this one.

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Even when I was still a small child, the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were already thirty years old. Their last film together, after ten years apart, was made some years before I was born, and their earliest collaboration was in 1935. Despite this, I always loved those films. The Art Deco sets, the snappy scripts, and of course, the wonderful music and dancing. Only ten films, nine in black and white, one in colour, yet they achieved an iconic status as an on-screen pairing, and nobody has ever matched their style since. Last week, I discovered that the BBC were showing two of their films, early on a Saturday, and I taped them. Although I have seen them all many times, and as recently as last year, the prospect of watching them always fills me with delight.

I agree that both Fred and Ginger were not the…

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  4. My mother was a big fan and she was always watching the old films…….she told me the fans magazines say they did not particularly like each other….if true does not show in the dancing…….chuq

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