Ginger: I looked behind me and thousands...thousands of squirrels had jumped the river and like a pack of hungry wolves were rushing at me! BRILLIANT! My favorite Ginger scene from an Astaire-Rogers movie aside from all the dancing of course.
This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. I like when Gingers says, "Oh, I was frantic!" Then later Fred tells the other doctor, "She's got everything wrong with her." Hilarious.
A few months ago I saw this scene after ordering the movies on Amazon and I screamed "I have to see this movie!" now i'm very glad that I did. Also people say this isn't their best dancing movie, well i think it's definitely one of the best acting and comiedic ones and the dances that they do have are pretty spectacular!
It was basically a screwball comedy in the Roz Russell/Lombard mode. Ginger was feeling increasingly confident about her acting chops and had gone on suspension at RKO for meatier parts and pay closer to Fred's. Pandro Berman, the production chief, felt that time was running out for the team, but compromised by injecting four numbers into the script. Fred then made trouble over Irving Berlin's 'The Yam', saying it was too silly to sing, so Ginger got that gig too- and, for the first time, a big input to the number's choreography. This shift in the balance of the partnership really spelled doom for it. Btw, Ginger had already played a neurotic star in her first solo vehicle, 'In Person'. Despite the losses incurred by their last two collaborations, she was hot thanks to 'Stage Door'... and Fred was adrift. In 1940 she would win the Best Actress Oscar. Fred sent a wire reading simply 'Ouch'.
Carefree and Swing Time are my favorite Ginger and Fred movies. She really gets into the telling of the dream and reels us into it and we feel her true relief with her sigh. Her gestures and espressions are priceless.
Creo que he visto esta pelicula un millon de veces y la podria seguir viendo hasta siempre .Esta esta escena en particular, es genial, brillante , hilarante y no creo que actriz alguna, de ayer o de hoy, pudiera hacer esta escena tan perfecta como la hizo Ginger.... ella fue unica y diferente de todas!!
This is a pitch-perfect high comedy turn. Ginger had complained that director Mark Sandrich often shot only the back of her head when Fred was serenading her. She knew her face was her biggest asset. Here the camera watches her improvising the tale of the huge fish and thousands of squirrels... and the back of Fred's head has to do the reacting.
the producer, Pandro Berman, had Sandrich on the carpet in his office and told him in no uncertain terms that people came to the movies to see Ginger, not Sandrich, and Fred was failing at the box office which was proven by the flop "Damsel in Distress'... so Sandrich had better get on Ginger's good side and stay there or else.
It looks like Elsa Schiaparelli. This looks like a fun movie. What is it? I love almost anything that pokes fun at psychoanalysis. Especially back in those days.
It was designed by Irene and so cleverly so. Notice how there is a heart with dozens of arrows piercing it? It represents how she already is in love with him.
