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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.
May 3, 2016 · Ginger got the chance to play the supporting role of Honey Hale in “Flying Down to Rio” simply because the actress that had been cast decided to get married instead. Fred Astaire, twelve years Ginger’s senior, was already a star, but in a different medium.
May 20, 2013 · More hard to find videos featuring Ginger Rogers available at: http://keep-it-gingery-ginger-rogers.blogspot.ca/2012/04/tv-appearances-1980s-up-for-trade.htm...
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In the 1930s, Rogers's nine films with Fred Astaire are credited with revolutionizing the genre and gave RKO Pictures some of its biggest successes: The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935) and Swing Time (1936). But after two commercial failures with Astaire, she turned her focus to dramatic and comedy films.
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.
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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.
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Oct 15, 2019 · Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers brought prestige to RKO when it was in desperate need of it and joy to a nation hungry for respite from tough times. In a six-year span they established themselves as the best known, best loved dancing partners in the history of movies and have remained there for 85 years.
