I love Gred & Ginger too but he never smiled and moved as freely as he did with Rita Hayworth...Ginger was a great actress but never danced as well as Rita
@@SuperScar03, Рита двигалась грубо по сравнению с Джинджер. Джинджер Роджерс была идеальной партнёршей для Фреда Астера. Никто не смог с ней сравниться в лёгкости и грациозности танца. Прошли десятилетия, а все продолжают восхищаться этой красивой гармоничной парой. Их танцы - лучший антидепрессант для зрителей. Каждый их танец - это произведение искусства в которое вложен титанический труд Фреда и Джинджер.
Je n'aime que fred astaire avec ginger rogers. Un duo en symbiose que personne ne pourra jamais égaler par la beauté et la finesse dans ce monde decadant 😢
Based on her facial expressions during the dance, this may have been the most enjoyable number for Ginger that she did with Fred after I'll Be Hard to Handle from Roberta.
wilhelm1914 I had the same impression, that's why they're both my favourites. I feel like they're really equal there, Fred might even good-heartedly hold back a little and give Ginger more room and it worked out splendidly. ♡♡♡
Fred danced with Eleanor Rita...Cyd...Leslie..Lucille.. & Audrey to name a few but the chemistry with the vivacious .. talented Ginger Rogers was absolutely the best. I understand after Flying Down to Rio when more musical films with Fred came along Ginger had to work very hard on her dancing skills but she pulled it off superbly. Still love these films. While there was the very talented and wonderful Gene Kelly no one moved like Fred Astaire...the man literally floated in a very casual way...made it all look so easy.. I understand Michail Barishnakov said...from a dance perspective..you just could not teach anyone to do what Fred Astaire did. AMEN.
Well said. Vera-Ellen also. and even Paulette Goddard❗ But Fred & Ginger were made for each other on screen. And *they both put in massive hours of rehearsals and shoots and re-shoots.* Fred demanded it. *He was both genius and perfectionist.*
The remarkable thing about Astaire & Rogers was Rogers did everything Astaire did but she did in heels, flowing gowns and she did it going backwards. Pure art...pure genius.
@@mikefeeney9587so did all female dancers dance in high heels. I’ll bet ginger couldn’t swing Fred around and up in the air like he did with all his female dancers
Amazing dancing so relaxed yet complex dance steps. Extraordinary Ginger could dance wearing floor length dresses without the hem getting caught under her high heels !!
I used to watch them on television in my teen years. Instead of being in bed for school, I’d be up watching one of their movies. I still watch them today. I truly wish I could have met them before they passed.
Those lucky extras. They not only got to watch them dance, they got to participate,too . The sight of Clarence Kolb, Ralph Bellamy, and Luella Geer dancing was delightful.
Fred and Ginger always insisted the dance routines were filmed in one take and not split and edited as a lot of routines were then. This was achieved by multiple cameras placed at strategic points Makes you appreciate the final scene with the tables
Shooting as much as possible in one take was Fred's requirement, not Ginger's. He also required that both he and his dance partner be shown full-length, from head to toes, throughout. But each one of the separate shots you see here would've been filmed multiple times, from just that single camera; Fred was a perfectionist, and if something wasn't to his liking, he would keep doing it till it was right. They didn't move through one giant set of this fictional country club all at one time, however. Each section was filmed individually, since all the lights and camera movements had to be positioned specifically each time.
@@hebnehThank you for explaining far better than I could. Somehow people think LIVE television techniques (or multi cam in filmed comedy tv) were also used in motion picture production.
My favourite part is when he lifts her around the tables - that dress twirling is perfect and just magical. Props to Howard Greer's designing. Swoon! 😍
Fred Astaire rarely did lifts in his dances but in this movie he lifted Ginger in all three of their dances: The Yam, I Used to be Color Blind, and Change Partners
@@jamesryan6008 True, there is one twirling lift at the end of 'Change Partners'. In 'I Used To Be a Color Blind' Ginger is helping out by leaping, and the slow motion exaggerates the length of time when Fred is hoisting her. By 'Broadway Melody of 1940' he was delegating the strenuous stuff to George Murphy.
Yes, this move really surprised me when I first saw it. I don't remember ever seeing any do it. I had to look again to make sure that I saw him put his leg on the table. It's looks risky for a man to do, not to try at home, it looks like a good way to break a leg. It looks likes he is pulling her over the top of his leg at the same time that she is jumping over it. However, what if she missed? I am not sure that lifting her wouldn't have been easier.
I love the concept of Astaire & Rogers inviting spectators to join in a dance routine (like Harold Lloyd inviting them to climb the outside of a building)
yes I'm 90 so i hope in a few years to meet Ginger maybe i can dance with her if i'm out of this wheelchair. i hope my dead wife isn't jealous, she wont dance
Ginger singing "I didn't come to do the Shag" at 2:55 had to be censored or redubbed in some way for Britain and its colonies when this film was new, because of the slang meaning of "shag" as "sex".
I brlieve you are mistaken. 'THE Shag' was a form of jitterbug popular in 20s & 30s. It was compact and not as big as this routine covering the ehole dance floor. What you refer to is a verb which is British slang arising as a term years later.
I like to think they did. In her autobiography, Ginger told the story of how she and Fred first met in New York. She was doing a play and he was called in to assist with choreo. Anyway, they ended up dating briefly. Their first date sounded so romantic, like a meet-cute from one of their films. At the end of the night, they were in the backseat of a car (might've been a cab, can't remember) and ended up making out. She said they shared a kiss that wouldn't have passed the Hays Code (!!) I was like "Oh damn, F&G got steamy IRL!" LOL. So, if I was a betting woman - and in this case I am - I'd say there are probably some secrets that Ginger took to her grave about what happened that night.
@@IrishEyes1989 From what I've read about Fred's autobiography, he and Ginger dated for about 7 months... until she left Broadway for Hollywood. I believe the romantic spark between them never totally left.
Danced their way put of the depression, unemployment etc in 1930's. Love these 2 amazing dancers, singers and actors. 'La La land ' film rubbish in comparison!!
Berlin couldn't so much as change key on a piano, but he trusted the music department at RKO, and they did him proud. This is a superbly free and easy arrangement, drawing on the latest big thing- swing- and totally in the mood of song and title, 'Carefree'. The drum break and blasting brass that follows towards the end are as propulsive as Basie or Tommy Dorsey.
I agree that Ginger Rogers' legs were beautiful but they weren't always hidden. Some examples: in "Lady in the Dark", she wears a mink dress with a split skirt that she looks great in, in "Follow the Fleet, she does a tap dance solo in shorts, in "Flying Down to Rio", she wears a beaded , figure hugging gown, which though dark,managed to show off her figure splendidly.
