Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers danced 'Cheek to Cheek' in which musical?
"In 1934, Astaire and Rogers made the musical movie ""The Gay Divorcee"" which co-starred Edward Everett Horton; it was their first joint starring role in a movie and grossed even more with worldwide rentals of $1.8 million; the movie also featured the classic Cole Porter song ""Night and Day"". The song ""The Continental"" from the movie was a hit and was also the first song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song in the 1934 Academy Awards. Astaire and Rogers made two movies in 1935, ""Roberta"", which featured the song ""I Won't Dance"" and ""Top Hat"", which also"
"Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were iconic dance partners who made motion pictures together from 1933 to 1949. They made a total of 10 films, nine of them with RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, ""The Barkleys of Broadway"", with M-G-M in 1949, their only color (Technicolor) film. Many years later, they became known by the portmanteau nickname of ""Fringer"", popularised by Australian entertainer Dave Gorr. Astaire started dancing in the early 1900s as a child on stage"
"Carefree (film) Carefree is a 1938 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. With a plot similar to screwball comedies of the period, ""Carefree"" is the shortest of the Astaire-Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers. ""Carefree"" is often remembered as the film in which Astaire and Rogers shared a long on-screen kiss at the conclusion of their dance to ""I Used to Be Color Blind,"" all previous kisses having been either quick pecks or simply implied. ""Carefree"" was a reunion for the team of Astaire and Rogers after a brief hiatus following ""Shall We Dance"" and six other"
"of $2,325,420. ""The Barkleys of Broadway"" would be Astaire and Rogers' final movie together, although both would continue to make films with other stars. In the 50s, Rogers' movie career declined due to a move away from classic film stars, but Astaire remained in the industry and branched out into television. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were iconic dance partners who made motion pictures together from 1933 to 1949. They made a total of 10 films, nine of them with RKO"
"The songs were written by Irving Berlin. ""Top Hat, White Tie and Tails"" and ""Cheek to Cheek"" have become American song classics. It has been nostalgically referred to — particularly its ""Cheek to Cheek"" segment — in many films, including ""The Purple Rose of Cairo"" (1985) and ""The Green Mile"" (1999). ""Top Hat"" was the most successful picture of Astaire and Rogers' partnership (and Astaire's second most successful picture after ""Easter Parade""), achieving second place in worldwide box-office receipts for 1935. While some dance critics maintain that ""Swing Time"" contained a finer set of dances, ""Top Hat"" remains, to this"
"with RKO Radio Pictures, where she was paired with dancer Fred Astaire in commercially successful ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933). The pair achieved greater success in subsequent musicals ""The Gay Divorcee"" (1934), ""Top Hat"" (1935), ""Swing Time"" (1936), and ""Shall We Dance"" (1937), totaling 8 films made between 1933 and 1939. Without Astaire, Rogers starred in critically and commercially successful non-musicals throughout the remainder of the 1930s such as ""Stage Door"" (1937) with Katharine Hepburn, ""Vivacious Lady"" (1938) with James Stewart, and ""Bachelor Mother"" (1939) with David Niven, culminating with an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in"
"musical ""Gay Divorce"" (1932). Astaire tried to get Luce for the film version of ""Gay Divorce"", ""The Gay Divorcee"" (1934) but was overruled by the studio, RKO Radio Pictures, which preferred to use their contract player, Ginger Rogers. Of her performance in ""Gay Divorce"" the critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: ""In the refulgent Claire Luce, Fred Astaire has found a partner who can match him step for step and who flies over the furniture in his company without missing a beat."" Unfortunately, during the London run of ""Gay Divorce"", Luce suffered a serious injury during the ""Table Dance"" routine—a routine which"
"Ginger and Fred Ginger and Fred () is a 1986 comedy/drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina. The title is a reference to the American dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two leads portray Italian impersonators of Astaire and Rogers who reunite after thirty years of retirement for a vulgar and bizarre television extravaganza. The film was the subject of a trademark claim in the United States by Ginger Rogers, who claimed in ""Rogers v. Grimaldi"" that the film violated her Lanham Act trademark rights, right of publicity, and was a ""false"
"a bow and arrow. Astaire's first seduction of Rogers in ""Isn't This a Lovely Day,"" falls foul of the mistaken-identity theme of the plot, so he makes a second attempt, encouraged by Broderick, in the number ""Cheek to Cheek"". As in ""No Strings,"" the song emerges from Astaire's mid-sentence as he dances with the hesitant Rogers on a crowded floor. Berlin wrote the words and music to this enduring classic in one day, and, at 72 measures, it is the longest song he ever wrote. He was very appreciative of Astaire's treatment of the song: ""The melody keeps going up"
"in ""We're In The Money"" from ""Gold Diggers"" included a verse in Pig Latin. Rogers was known for her partnership with Fred Astaire. Together, from 1933 to 1939, they made nine musical films at RKO: ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933), ""The Gay Divorcee"" (1934), ""Roberta"" (1935), ""Top Hat"" (1935), ""Follow the Fleet"" (1936), ""Swing Time"" (1936), ""Shall We Dance"" (1937), ""Carefree"" (1938), and ""The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle"" (1939). ""The Barkleys of Broadway"" (1949) was produced later at MGM. They revolutionized the Hollywood musical, introducing dance routines of unprecedented elegance and virtuosity, set to songs specially composed for"
"Gay Divorce Gay Divorce is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Dwight Taylor, adapted by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. It was Fred Astaire's last Broadway show and featured the hit song ""Night and Day"" in which Astaire danced with co-star Claire Luce. It was made into a musical film by RKO Radio Pictures in 1934, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and renamed ""The Gay Divorcee"". Guy Holden, an American writer traveling in England, falls madly in love with a woman named Mimi, who disappears after their first encounter. To take his mind"
"their musicals since ""The Gay Divorcee"" (1934) – contributed to their least profitable picture to date. Astaire was no stranger to the Gershwins, having headlined, with his sister Adele, two Gershwin Broadway shows: ""Lady Be Good!"" in 1924 and ""Funny Face"" in 1927. George Gershwin also accompanied the pair on piano in a set of recordings in 1926. Rogers first came to Hollywood's attention when she appeared in the Gershwins' 1930 stage musical ""Girl Crazy"". ""Shall We Dance"" was named at the suggestion of Vincente Minnelli, who was a friend of the Gershwins. Minnelli originally suggested ""Shall We Dance?"" with"
"she directed the musical ""Babes in Arms"" off-Broadway in Tarrytown, New York, at 74 years old. It was produced by Michael Lipton and Robert Kennedy of Kennedy Lipton Productions. The production starred Broadway talents Donna Theodore, Carleton Carpenter, James Brennan, Randy Skinner, Karen Ziemba, Dwight Edwards, and Kim Morgan. It is also noted in her autobiography ""Ginger, My Story"". The Kennedy Center honored Ginger Rogers in December 1992. This event, which was shown on television, was somewhat marred when Astaire's widow, Robyn Smith, who permitted clips of Astaire dancing with Rogers to be shown for free at the function itself,"
"according to RKO records still lost the studio $68,000. It was the first Astaire and Rogers films not to show a profit upon its original release. ""Carefree"" was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction (Van Nest Polglase), Best Musical Scoring (Victor Baravalle) and Best Song ""Change Partners"", written by Irving Berlin. Carefree (film) Carefree is a 1938 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. With a plot similar to screwball comedies of the period, ""Carefree"" is the shortest of the Astaire-Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers. ""Carefree"" is often remembered as the film in which Astaire"
"They Can't Take That Away from Me ""They Can't Take That Away from Me"" is a 1937 popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film ""Shall We Dance"". The song is performed by Astaire on the lonely foggy deck of a ferry from New Jersey to Manhattan. It is sung to Ginger Rogers, who remains silent listening throughout. No dance sequence follows, which was unusual for the Astaire-Rogers numbers. Astaire and Rogers did dance to it later in their last movie ""The Barkleys of Broadway"" (1949)"
"Let's Face the Music and Dance ""Let's Face the Music and Dance"" is a song written in 1936 by Irving Berlin for the film ""Follow the Fleet"", where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and featured in a celebrated dance duet with Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It is also used in ""Pennies from Heaven"", where Astaire's voice is lip-synched by Steve Martin, and in a celebrated Morecambe and Wise sketch involving newsreader Angela Rippon. In the 1990s, Nat 'King' Cole's version was used in a famous advert for Allied Dunbar; in response to this (and to the song's use by"
"Flying Down to Rio Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 American pre-Code RKO musical film noted for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, although Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond received top billing and the leading roles. Among the featured players are Franklin Pangborn and Eric Blore. The songs in the film were written by Vincent Youmans (music), Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu (lyrics), with musical direction and additional music by Max Steiner. This is the only film in which Rogers was billed above famed Broadway dancer Astaire. The black-and-white film (later computer-colorized) was"
"the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable"". According to Astaire, when they were first teamed together in ""Flying Down to Rio"", ""Ginger had never danced with a partner before. She faked it an awful lot. She couldn't tap and she couldn't do this and that ... but Ginger had style and talent and improved as she went along. She got so that after a while everyone else who danced with me looked wrong."" Author Dick Richards, in his"
"book ""Ginger: Salute to a Star"", quoted Astaire saying to Raymond Rohauer, curator at the New York Gallery of Modern Art, ""Ginger was brilliantly effective. She made everything work for her. Actually she made things very fine for both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success."" In her classic 1930s musicals with Astaire, Ginger Rogers, co-billed with him, was paid less than Fred, the creative force behind the dances, who also received 10% of the profits. She was also paid less than many of the supporting ""farceurs"" billed beneath her, in spite of her much"
"The Barkleys of Broadway The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 Technicolor musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart. Directed by Charles Walters, the screenplay is by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Sidney Sheldon, the songs are by Harry Warren (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics) with the addition of ""They Can't Take That Away from Me"" by George and Ira Gershwin, and the choreography was created by Robert Alton and Hermes Pan. Also featured in the cast were Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Jacques François and Gale Robbins."
"The Way You Look Tonight ""The Way You Look Tonight"" is a song from the film ""Swing Time"" that was performed by Fred Astaire and written by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. Fields remarked, ""The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."" In the movie, Astaire sang ""The Way You Look Tonight"" to Ginger Rogers while she was washing her hair in an adjacent room. His recording reached the"
"Scenic design by Frank E. Gates, and Edward A. Morange. Costume design by Wanamaker, Paul Poiret, and George Barber. It ran for 63 performances, closing on January 20, 1923. The cast was headlined by Fred Astaire (Gerald Lane), Adele Astaire (Judy Jordan), and Philip Tonge (Lord Kinlock). The Astaire siblings played the romantic couple. Gerald Bordman reports that ""Broadway’s critics were not bowled over. Although many headlines implied reviews would be raves, notices themselves were filled with qualifications. Most of the enthusiasm was reserved for the Astaires. When it came to Kern's score, the critics were generally unhappy"". Judy Jordan"
"remains. Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her starring role in ""Kitty Foyle"" (1940), but is best remembered for performing in RKO's musical films (partnered with Fred Astaire) on stage, radio and television, throughout much of the 20th century. Born in Independence, Missouri, and raised in Kansas City, Rogers and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when she was nine years old. After winning a 1925 Charleston dance contest that launched a successful vaudeville career, she gained recognition as"
"pride in his craftsmanship and objects to outside interference. All of them plus the Continental, help to make the new Music Hall show the source of a good deal of innocent merriment.” The film was nominated for the following Academy Awards, winning in the category Music (Song): The Gay Divorcee The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Erik Rhodes, and was based on the Broadway musical ""Gay Divorce"", written by Dwight Taylor from an unproduced play"
"Swing Time (film) Swing Time is a 1936 American RKO musical comedy film set mainly in New York City, and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It features Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. The film was directed by George Stevens. Noted dance critic Arlene Croce considers ""Swing Time"" Astaire and Rogers' best dance musical, a view shared by John Mueller and Hannah Hyam. It features four dance routines that are each regarded as masterpieces. According to ""The Oxford Companion to the American Musical"", ""Swing"
"Theater"", with Ginger Rogers reprising the role of Dinah Barkley, and George Murphy playing her husband and partner Josh. Notes The Barkleys of Broadway The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 Technicolor musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart. Directed by Charles Walters, the screenplay is by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Sidney Sheldon, the songs are by Harry Warren (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics) with the addition of ""They Can't Take That Away from Me"" by George and Ira Gershwin, and the choreography was created by"
"Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire's first dance number in the first film in which the famous duo appeared together, ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933). She continued playing exotic women in American and Spanish language films in the 1930s, most notably as a Tahitian girl, Tehanni in ""Mutiny on the Bounty"" (1935) alongside Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. She played an island girl in ""Paradise Isle"" (1937) and again in ""Girl from Rio"" (1939) with Warren Hull. She starred in the British thriller ""Tower of Terror"" (1941) alongside Wilfrid Lawson and Michael Rennie. After a break, she appeared as Henry Fonda's"
"(1933), Berkeley choreographed a number of films in his unique style. Berkeley's numbers typically begin on a stage but gradually transcend the limitations of theatrical space: his ingenious routines, involving human bodies forming patterns like a kaleidoscope, could never fit onto a real stage and the intended perspective is viewing from straight above. Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as ""Top Hat"" (1935), ""Swing Time"" (1936),"
"Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her starring role in ""Kitty Foyle"" (1940), but is best remembered for performing in RKO's musical films (partnered with Fred Astaire) on stage, radio and television, throughout much of the 20th century. Born in Independence, Missouri, and raised in Kansas City, Rogers and her family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, when she was nine years old. After winning a 1925 Charleston dance contest that launched a successful vaudeville career, she gained recognition as a"
"The Gay Divorcee The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It also features Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Erik Rhodes, and was based on the Broadway musical ""Gay Divorce"", written by Dwight Taylor from an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners, which was adapted into a musical by Kenneth S. Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. The film's screenplay was written by George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, and Edward Kaufman. Robert Benchley, H. W. Hanemann, and Stanley Rauh made uncredited contributions to the dialogue. The stage"
"Bunch and Judy"" (1922), and then the Gershwin brothers' first Broadway collaboration ""Lady, Be Good!"", followed by their ""Funny Face"". Both were hits in America and in London. After Fred's success in Hollywood, Astaire gave consideration in 1935 to making a film, but ultimately declined the opportunity. She sang and recorded duets with Fred, George Vollaire and Bernard Clifton. While performing in England in 1927, Astaire had met Lord Charles Cavendish, the second son of His Grace The 9th Duke of Devonshire. When Charles visited her in the United States in 1929 the pair began courting. On March 5, 1932,"
"Funny Face (musical) Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith. When it opened on Broadway on November 22, 1927, as the very first show on the newly built Alvin Theatre, it starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele Astaire. It was in this show that Fred Astaire first danced in evening clothes and a top hat. Originally called ""Smarty"", it first opened in Philadelphia on October 11, 1927 to poor reviews. This led to major rewrites and caused critic-humorist Robert Benchley, who had"
"as a result of its score. In an Astaire-Rogers picture, the Big White Set — as these Art Deco-inspired creations were known — took up the largest share of the film's production costs, and ""Top Hat"" was no exception. A winding canal — spanned by two staircase bridges at one end and a flat bridge on the other — was built across two adjoining sound stages. Astaire and Rogers dance across this flat bridge in ""Cheek to Cheek"". Around the bend from this bridge was located the main piazza, a giant stage coated in red bakelite and this was the"