I'm 90 also so I got to see their dancing on the big screen and now on my 70" TV (without scratches) LOVE THEM

amen

Sooooo right

People who were REAL talents, combined with a work ethic that seldom exists these days.

Hell yes!!!

And it is all on one take

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 😢

She always knew how to work a gown while she danced.

The best!!!!!!!!

They blended so well together. And I think she was the sweetest of them all.

Well it is Fred and Ginger, not Fred and anyone else even though they were all good.

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 That's because Ginger was much better than Fred.... All the same moves but with a dress & heels...

​@@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.

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

But they were paid virtually nothing

​@@lytlehoover2205 so

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. ♡♡♡

​@@gill426❤genial

Best trope ever.

It isn't actually that unrealistic, in Fred and Ginger's presence you suddenly knew how to.

Of any era, since the motion picture camera was invented.

I thought I would never see such amazing dancing in my lifetime until I saw river dance from Ireland 👌

Ginger suggested that move bc she was getting a little too heavy for elfin Fred. It's called a hurdle lift.

@@esmeephillips5888 wow, I didn't know that! Well, they created a marvelous choreography out of it!

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.

For me it was the 50's.

I was a eight year old in the early 2000s. XD Watching Fred and Ginger movies, this is one of their hidden treasures that’s for sure!

Blue Apple Pi So good to hear you felt the same honey !!! XO

elderly poodle i discovered fred and ginger in my 20s, am now in my 50s and I still adore both of them! They are timeless

kelly caviness yes!!! Don't you wish we could buy her dresses now??

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.

But they didn't do them in one take. In several scenes Ginger shoes were filled with blood after doing 40 takes of an exiting routine

My favorite part is the end where Ginger goes over his leg and the tables. I gasped when I first saw that.

3very modern dance came from them

Not what I read

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

Frank Lloyd Wright influence?

hebneh Thank you for the information! I didn’t know that was such an old term!.

Rodgers & Hart's rhyming musical 'Hallelujah I'm a Bum' got altered to 'I'm a Tramp'. For the British a bum is what you sit on.

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.

me, three!

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.

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.

She never said that. The remark arose from a bubble in a 1970s comic strip, and was repeated by Women's Lib folks.

I’m so sick of hearing that comment every time she partnered up with fred