The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers book

Arlene Croce
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Fred and Ginger! Ginger and Fred! To delicious songs from America's greatest popular composers, they danced a chain of love duets across the Thirties that remain today the untouchable standard for American theatrical dancing. Apart, each was individual, brilliant. Together, they were ineffable; for the first and only time on the screen, a profound partnership was created by the act of dancing. In The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, Arlene Croce gathers together a thousand fascinating facts and production details about the nine (plus one) Astaire-Rogers movies and marries them to a dazzling, comprehensive analysis of all the Fred and Ginger numbers from those films. Lavishly keyed into the text at appropriate points are over 100 related photographs plus two unique flip sequences: the glorious "Waltz in Swing Time," the pounding "Let Yourself Go." Here is the definitive book on a memorable alliance. Fred and Ginger are together again!
Genres: FilmBiographyNonfictionMusicHistory
191 Pages

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