Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Jane Russell--1979 RKO Reunion 

what beautiful eyes Ginger Rogers has!

Rhonda Fleming looks so beautiful here. Sadly, she died recently - aged 97. A grand life, well-lived.

Love the way Fred gives Ginger a little pat on the lap after she sits down.

You gotta love Robert Osborne for keeping track of these events and professionally interviewing these talented stars over his long career. Thank you for posting this clip!

I'm really love Mr. Fred Astaire and Mrs. Ginger Rogers so much🥰

This is wonderful! This is when stars were REAL stars!

These behind-the-scenes films and videos of so many of the past stars (who are basically all gone now-just as actual film is going) in unstaged, non-acted (reality TV?) sequences, are priceless. I wish we could get much more informal footage of the historical giants of the entertainment industry.

Thank you for giving us this gift. It is a jewel to see Fred and Ginger and, of course, all the other wonderful people of the film industry.

Ginger looked so good for a long time.

Gingers eyes, get me every time.

Wonderful video. Some of the RKO Alumni that were living, but absent that day in 1979: Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, Ida Lupino, Maureen O'Hara, Jean Simmons, Simon Simone, George Cukor, Dolores Del Rio, Ann Harding, Irene Dunne, Joan Bennett, Katharine Hepburn, Mary Astor, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Raymond, Orson Wells, Joesph Cotten, Loretta Young, Robert Young, Kenneth Tobey, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Van Johnson, Eve Arden, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Astor. Paul Stewart, Ruth Warrick, George Coulouris. Note: John Wayne died in June 1979. Not knowing the exact date of the reunion, he could have been living when it occurred.

WONDERFUL footage and memories of wonderful Stars. Esp. for me, Ginger and Fred, but so many others there too in these videos. Thank you.!1

Great nostalgia of the greats, RKO....RIP.

Thank you very much for this rare footage!!!

O How wonderful that must have been!! A room FULL of legends

Nice clip... another era.. Some giants in that room.. REO always remembered for Astaire Rogers

Ginger is sooo cute and always sweet and wise!

6:35 OMG Frances Dee and Joel McCrea (just talking to Fred and others, this is before the introductions). Love them. Thank you so much for posting this!

Thanks for sharing this. What a wonderful era of film they represent. Thankfully we can enjoy their films via TCM and other venues. They're sorely missed.

Never to be forgotten stars!

Of all the Hollywood studios, no studio was more Jekyll-and-Hyde than RKO Radio Pictures. RKO had the ability to turn out classics like 'Citizen Kane" or the Astaire-Rogers musicals or "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" or "Gunga Din" or "I Remember Mama," but due to bad decisions or bad management, it never achieved the fame it could've had. When it finally started rolling in the right direction in the late 1940s---whether due to some of its own films, or distributing films like "The Best Years of Our Lives" for Samuel Goldwyn---it made the fatal decision of being sold to Howard Hughes, whose bad decisions and eccentricities sounded the death knell for the beeping tower.

Love ,em all. But Ginger just sparkles!

Jane Russell ♥️

Amazing unedited film history! Thanks for posting it for us to remember, awesome stuff, awesome stars I still watch.

Джинджер Роджерс здесь 68, а Фреду Астеру 80! Такое впечатление, что они моложе всех! Необыкновенная энергетика у этих артистов! Какая естественность, простота, но простота королевская! 💖💖👑👑

Wonderful RKO Radio Pictures

This is amazing , I wish i had been able to watch this when it was on TV .

Ame a ginger roger. La vi en buenos aires.fue una gran emoción.

10:32 His name was cut off but that was the estimable HERMES Pan, Astaire's co-choreographer for more than half his films and most of his TV work as well as numerous non-Fred films -- earning an Oscar and Emmy along the way. He was also a fine performer though he, like all the rest of us, lacked Fred's 'it' factor: Terrific dance with Betty Grable: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7nFnEsMv-Vg.html Very Ginger-Fred-ish dance with Rita Hayworth: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ldcpHxHNh60.htmlm Thanks for posting!

That sounded like Robert Osbourne (TCM Host) talking to Jane Russell and Jane Greer.

wow awesome thanks

Annie is 93 years old. These wonderful actresses and actors who live so long. A special mightiness to them. Most in this video are all gone, well they're all gone except Ann. The other day Debbie Reynolds the last star of Singing in the Rain, gone, due to her daughters death the day before. Heart break, maybe, but she just couldn't fathom being with out Carrie. The greatest talents that the world has ever had in this 20th century are all practically gone. Doris Day is still with us, but for how long? Most are living in nursing homes in other states or countries, and even in their own homes being taken care of by nurses and staff (if they can afford it still). To me, it just shows that humans weren't made to suffer and have a few short years of life, but to have lived forever and enjoy what they did best. If the trees in California are 4,000 years old, why aren't we?

A true lady! A Fabulous talent & dancer! a star way before Astaire! ir.irw!aire

Reunión de estrellas del Cine de Oro de Hollywood .

Anne Jeffreys always put everyone else to shame with her amazing sense of style. Looks like a million bucks, as always.

I thought it was interesting that Katherine Hepburn wasn't there as she had been a performer at RKO. Lucille Ball also but then again she had bought the RKO studio for Desilu studios. Lovely to see Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire and all the others. Janet Leigh ,such a joy to see her on here.

Most beautiful woman in hollywood

I recognized Janet Leigh from behind even before she turned around.

I wish the camera would have filmed from the front instead of the side when they did roll call!

Rest in Peace to Anne Jeffreys today. I believe the only surviving attendee is now Rhonda Fleming. Everyone else is gone.

Jane Russell is there with her boo thang John Calvin People lol so cute

I’m surprised Lucille Ball wasn’t there. She worked for RKO and eventually bought the studio.

Like it will be for everyone, one day you'll be in a room like this which is now completely empty, everyone has disappeared.

this before John Osborne hit it big on TCM

Backstage at the Met . . . they get to see all the performances. I have wondered that when 'they' see something extraordinary, do they applaud? Performers would know . . . IF the crew applauds, you're probably on track.

I DONT KNOW WHO THAT WOMEN IN THE BLUE IS, SHE MUST BE ONE OF THE ACTRESS OF THE RKO ERA...BUT IM GUESSING SHE IS IN HER 40'S OR 50'S, AND SHE IS STILL STUNNING, WOW BEAUTIFUL, ALSO GINGER ROGERS IS ALSO GORGEOUS.

I’m 60 and I got to know the names of these stars up to age 15. All of them have been gone , many for over 40 years . Very famous in their day and yet today I don’t think the average 25 year old would recognize more than 3 of these names. This event had these stars sitting in cheap metal fold out chairs wearing clothes no woman would be caught dead in, bad lighting with hair styles that put 30 years on to their age. Some of the men are barely 60 and look 85.

Is that Bob Osborne interviewing the Janes?

The guy who is interviewing Ginger Rogers is a much younger Robert Osbourne.

9:44 ❤️❤️❤️

She was 68 here

9:43 took her to appear

wow that's Robert Osbourne in 1979 did the man always have grey hair?

Mathieu Ganio is like Fred Astaire.

Joel McCrea had the smarts to quit before he got old, like Cary, Randolph Scott and Bill Powell. Scott's and McCrea's farewell, moreover, was one of their very best, Sam Peckinpah's 'Ride the High Country'- better than Grant's 'Walk, Don't Run' or Cagney's brief, depressing re-emergence in 'Ragtime'.

Look at Jane Russell giving Fred Astaire's young wife, Robin the evil eye

they are all dead..now