lemorab1 they kissed in Carefree twice actually.

the way she lifts her head and upper body at the very end to start the kiss... that is hard to do!!

Who said that Rogers wasn’t a legitimate dancer?

​​@@carltrotter7622 She began as a Charlestoning jazz baby, then kicked in a chorus line. Her formidable mother, Lela, was a drama critic, tutor and scenarist who always wanted her daughter to be an actress, not a hoofer and singer. Those skills were part of the needful repertoire of a Main Stem gal who had to stand out, bc musical comedy was the dominant format. What distinguished Ginger's learning curve was finding herself paired with Hollywood's top male dancer and his own inspiration, the movies' greatest dance director. Such luck played a part, but Ginger (and Lela) made the most of it. In six years Ginger went from someone who needed a double to the brilliance of 'Never Gonna Dance' and the 'Waltz in Swing Time'. Yet all this was only a first-stage rocket in a stratospheric ascent to an Oscar and the biggest paycheck a woman collected in Hollywood in 1945. By then she had barely danced a memorable step on screen since she and Fred whirled away, prophetically ghostlike, as the Castles. Hoofing would never be more than a means to an end with her- but what a means!b