Follow the Fleet, 1936, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Co-starring Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard. Directed by Mark Sandrich. Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. B&W, 110 minutes. Navy seaman “Bake” Baker (Fred Astaire) is on shore leave …
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The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee, 1934, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Directed by Mark Sandrich. B&W, 107 minutes. Traveling from Paris to London, Guy Holden (Fred Astaire) meets Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) in a most unfortunate manner. Mimi’s dress …
Shall We Dance (1937)
Shall We Dance, 1937, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton. Directed by Mark Sandrich. Music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin. B&W, 109 minutes. Ballet dancer Petrov (Fred Astaire), aka Peter P. Peters, is …
Swing Time
Swing Time, 1936, RKO Radio Pictures, Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore. Music by Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields. Directed by George Stevens. B&W, 102 minutes. Quite possibly the best musical from the Depression era, including all other Astaire/Rogers …
Stage Door
Wealthy society girl Terry Randall yearns to make it on Broadway, and she's willing to live humbly if that's the road to getting her name in lights. She lands a plum role, but her success means failure for last year's …
Vivacious Lady
After one night together, Peter and Francey are man and wife...but how does he explain his worldly wife to his stodgy parents? Not to mention the town that all but bears his name.
Bachelor Mother
Bachelor Mother, 1939, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn. Directed by Garson Kanin. B&W, 82 minutes. Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) has just been laid off of her seasonal job at Merlin and Son’s Department Store. It’s …
