Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 3:57pm

Got it, yippeeeeeeee!!!!
Top Hat
Swing Time
The Barkleys of Broadway
Follow the Fleet
Shall We Dance

I think I'll start with Swing Time.

Posted: 8/20/05 at 4:46pm

Fabulous choice!

Posted: 8/20/05 at 4:46pm

Fabulous choice!

Posted: 8/20/05 at 4:46pm

Fabulous choice!

[shira467]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 5:36pm

So great, Jose triple posted!

Sounds like fun Glebb!

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 5:44pm

I'm happy.
Of course I'll have to buy Volume 2.
I'll need FLYING DOWN TO RIO and THE GAY DIVORCEE.

[shira467]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 5:57pm

*checks amazon.com*

Oooh, good prices.

*pissy that I must pay off student loans first!*

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 6:01pm

Sorry Shira.
I'm loving Ginger right now. :)

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/20/05 at 6:18pm

My top three favorites and I change the order depending upon which I am watching are:

SWING TIME (1936)
Director - George Stevens
Music - Jerome Kern
Choreography - Hermes Pan
Songs and dance numbers include:
Pick Yourself Up
The Way You Look Tonight
Waltz in Swing Time (LOVE IT)
A Fine Romance
Never Gonna Dance (LOVE IT)

TOP HAT (1935) (The opening credits with the lower part of their dancing legs is the best!)
Director - Mark Sandrich
Music - Irving Berlin
Choreography - Hermes Pan
Songs and dance numbers include:
Isnt' It a Lovely Day (To Go Out in The Rain?)
Cheek to Cheek
The Piccolino

SHALL WE DANCE? (1937)
Director - Mark Sandrich
Music - George and Ira Gershwin
Choreography - Hermes Pan
Songs and dance numbers include:
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Thay All Laughed
Walking The Dog (no lyrics, but great music with passengers walking their dogs on the deck of a luxory liner)

[justme2]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 8:54pm

I keep playing the Barkely's of Broadway, just to watch the "drum number" (as I call it) over and over again. They were so in sync at that point, and the number is flawless and wonderful to watch. And according to notes, they hadn't danced together in 10 years at that point.

I just finished watching "The Gay Divorcee" again, and it served to remind me that they had yet to hit their stride with this movie. The dancing is great, but the editing sucks and many shots don't match up.

Besides, NO ONE should have to watch Edward Everett Horton "dance" in a thirties bathing suit and socks and sandals! Bleeech.

Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:23pm

Follow the Fleet - very relaxed and very sexy!

when they are both in sailor suits - hot little number!

[justme2]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:30pm

Damn straight! and Ginger singing "Come, Get together" in that movie is pretty hot, as well.

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:32pm

Ginger is amazing. Beautiful!!!
I love her graceful body in the Swing Time Waltz.

Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:40pm

All fabuloso!

[justme2]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:08pm

I've always been partial to...

"Isn't it a Lovely Day" - she looks so fantastic in that riding outfit and their tap dancing in that is wonderful.

"A Fine Romance" perfect unison of lyrics, scenery and acting.

"Pick Yourself Up" - this may be because this is my very first memory of seeing Fred and Ginger. I was very young (under 7), and it was being shown on Sunday morning television and I was entranced. I still love the number.

Who am I kidding? I will watch ANY Fred and Ginger and enjoy myself every time!

Posted: 8/21/05 at 10:42pm

"Let's face the music and dance..."

[Illegally Blondish]

Posted: 8/22/05 at 2:51am

Oh! A wave of nostalgia just ran through my veins reading this thread! I think I'll have a Fred/Ginger marathon tomorrow.

Being the avid Ginger fan since a young age, I naturally have all ten, actually duplicates of some. Yes, I will shamefully admit that over the years I've spent more money than intended just because I wanted the same movie with different packaging and in different collections. I treasure them, though, so I guess I should own that proudly.


The whole time I was reading that "classiest Broadway lady" thread on the main board, Ginger was all I could think of (but refrained from posting on yet another popularity thread). She was a class act on screen and off.


I still think its amazing that back in Ginger's New York days she and Fred went on a single date... dancing, no less. The irony that several years later they filmed the first movie featuring them as the couple that would go down in history as the most famous dancing duo? Funny how life works out, isn't it?

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:18am

Just started SHALL WE DANCE?
It's going to be good!!!

[Mamie]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:44am

I loved all the Fred and Ginger films but SWING TIME will always be my favorite. The most exquisitely beautiful music in the world is found in that show. "The Way You Look Tonight".... just incredible.

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:48am

Love SWING TIME too. Ginger is just flawless in that one.
Oh, here's the DOG WALKING scene from SHALL WE DANCE?
Imagine, walking your dog on the deck of a luxory liner to Gershwin music. The streets really were paved with gold.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 12:05pm

"The Waltz in Swing Time"...heaven, I'm in heaven.

(I know, different movie.)

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:56pm

I just got the collection last night as a birthday present!

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:04pm

Good Birthday Present!

[Glebb]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 8:40pm

Ok, just started "The Barkleys of Broadway".
Not sure I'm liking Ginger (as much) in color though.
I adore her in Black & White.
What is wrong?

[zepka102]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 9:24pm

TOP HAT is seriously one of my all-time favorite movies