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Yes, it's all about the "1930s brows."
This is my favorite Fred & Ginger movie! I love the silly plot, the incredible chemistry between the leads. I love Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton. And I love Eric Rhodes as Rodolfo Tonetti (and if you're a "Drowsy Chaperone" fan, this is the character that Aldolpho was based on!)
Best of all, I love "The Continental." It won the very first Oscar for Best Song (boy, have we gone downhill since then!), and the incredible production number is one of my favorite ever put on film.
I love the use of black and white costumes here. Notice how they keep shifting throughout the number. The guys in white jackets and black pants, the ladies in white gowns, then suddenly it switches! The ladies in black gowns and the men in switched suits. The design and art direction are classic.
Best of all, you have Fred & Ginger being Fred & Ginger. Really, it's the first time they came into their own as screen stars and personalities. She, the cynical, funny, sexy lady. He, the classy, goofy, suave man.
And the rest, as they say, is history!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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