Ginger and Fred are mesmerizing dancers and their skill and timing is astounding. They always cheer me up....I wish I could dance like Ginger she was extrodinary.
Astaire did the choregraphy and his little magic trick which made him stand out was that he frequently allowed his feet to be very slightly behind the beat. This gave his dancing a tension as you almost subconsciously thought he would not catch up. That is genius. And some studio executive dismissed him in his audition with comments like "...can dance a bit".
I love all of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, but the dancing, the music, the lyrics, and the jokes in "Follow the Fleet" make it my very favorite.
Fred and Ginger at their best....what a routine full of energy, and they show they're having fun doing it as difficult and exhausting as it must be. Delightful!
I'm a 24 year old DJ and every time I'm out in the club DJing and I put on some swing music from this era, people lose it on the dance floor! Love this music.
I am 14 years old, and I can't stop watching these things. I started checking out Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's videos in the past few days, but I ABSOLUTELY love them. I can't stop dancing around the house :)
Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath) was fabulous. She was the perfect dance partner for Fred Astaire in the mid-1930s and early-1940s. What they had, above all else, was that elusive quality called "Chemistry" when they danced. It's very, very rare, and it's why they're so great together. She deserves much, much credit for her movie work and is (was) truly one of the greats. Just my opinion. Peace.
These two are golden! I wish so much to have been alive when Fred was.. I was born long after he died... Fred Astaire is my absolute favourite!!! I love everything he does!!!
Ginger made the difference with Fred. Everyone should be thanking her for her great contribution to the dance world because without her there just might not have been a Fred Astaire and wouldn't that had been a crime. There still would have been a Ginger Rogers. We should be grateful we also have Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire together. They are magical in dance, expression, and dialogue. They are so witty and comical together. They play off each other with supreme perfection.
Well, no. Not as far as the dancing is concerned. Astair took the lead. That she was able to follow wherever he led is amazing. and tribute to her great strength as a performer which was her boldness.
It was also Ginger amazing acting that mad their movies so wonderful. She acted the way girls felt about Fred. Lets not forget their amazing chemistry.
This young man, who seems to have flexible bones , and this young lady who matches him step for step, are unique in the annals of film. Almost a million views so far. Keep coming people, and keep this fabulous performance alive for future generations.
Im 22 and love this. Wish Hollywood would make more movies like this. There will be no one like them again. They are angels. Could we stop insulting Ginger or Fred? What make them special are them together. Their movies would have not been the same without each other. Ginger did good dancing without having much training when they started out. It goes without saying Fred was amazing dancer.
I have this on DVD as well as the other nine musicals they did together. Fred & Ginger had no competition. Their worked made huge revenues for RKO. They basically saved the studio from going bankrupt. Ginger was also making other movies all throughout her partnership with Fred Astaire. Movie stars like this don't exist anymore. I don't think today's generation of directors and producers, not to mention audience , cares much about large scale musicals.
Nothing Like these Two... Memories that No one can replace look at this Dancing with the Star's these two had it down to the T... No Mistakes! All Free No edits. No nothing.. There the Kind I would Love to have been there to see in person.. I felt I was there when I saw these two do a Movie together.. Thanks for the Memories I know there both Dancing In Heaven..
this is magic, it is simply the most amazing thing ever created!!!!!! fred and ginger are artist beyond anything!!!!! i love dace and these people soooo much!
I've meet Gingers in Paris when she was doing a show .She was nearly sixty nine at the time She was not a great singer but she had the star quality something you can' define a real pro and a very charming lady . anice souvenir for me Jmb
@UnholyxBlood here here. I'm 20, but what you bring up is a beat we can all dance to. unfortunately for people like us, it takes a great deal of the population to make it a good generation. but so long as I see someone else out there every now and then that stands for what's right, I smile with hope. =)
Ginger Rogers wasn't the best dancer of all the dancers Fred Astaire partnered with, but she was his best partner by a mile. She wasn't as highly trained in dance as his later partners, giving Astaire more leeway to mold her to his style, and they did a good job of that, together. She was his most seamlessly integrated partner, and you could really find it credible that he, as the man, lead Ginger, as the woman, in their dancing. I always see them as a team when they dance together, two parts of an almost perfect whole. When I watch him with more highly trained partners, I see them as two dancers, not that that's a bad thing, but for watching one of the most integrated dance partnerships in movie history, it's always Fred and Ginger, for me.
@@MrCrowebobby , I guess. Ginger was probably a big star then more because of her pairing with Fred, and she was a real beauty with charisma. But, you may right that her dancing skills alone weren't as great as Eleanor Powell and Cyd Charise. Now that I think of it, when Ginger appeared alone without Fred in "42nd St" (1933), she didn't even stand out as anything exceptional, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell were the ones who carried that film. Even Una Merkel's performance stood out more than Ginger's there
im 17 years old n i feel like i was born in the wrong era too!! luv the old classic movies and music!!! friends tell me that i don't belong in this generation lol
Whenever the opportunity presents itself, I watch "Ginger and Fred" movies and imagine what it was like for cast members to see them dance. I'd have given anything to be among them! I especially liked "Roberta." Ya - I know ... I'm not the type you'd expect to be such a fan. Hey - what can I say!??
So fluid - they make it look so easy. Makes me want to break out in dance myself except I can't dance and now I'm depressed about it. (Sigh...) Oh well - I'll just have to dance vicariously through Ginger.
LOVE fred astaire. LOVE LOVE LOVE him. I have an original copy of Follow the Fleet and it's a great movie. Not my favorite of Fred's but it's still one of the best. This song is a lot of fun too.
There is so much joy in so many of there routines together. In their romantic ballroom numbers, they look like they are in love. None of Aistaire's other partners on screen capture the same spirit. Cyd Charisse came closest in combining the dancing with acting a person in a particular situation. I've loved F & G since I first saw them in Shall We Dance on the Million Dollar Movie in NYC in 1957.
I agree with you on Fred and Cyd Charrise, and Fred and Judy Garland were great together in Easter Parade. Judy's big amazing talent was her singing, and Ginger's was dancing, so Ginger was Fred's best dancing partner of all. They were both amazing dancers in every film they starred together in
Ginger and her mother were really hard-core about her outfits, demanding particular shades of color even though the movies were black & white. I think they were right.
One of their absolutely best dance numbers. Not as glamorous or dramatic as some but totally unique. Also, it is only one of two times in all their films that one really sees Gingers leg and foot work. The Gowns were spectacular but often camouflaged her brilliant dancing. NOTE..she did everything Fred did only in High Heels and backwards... She is often underpaid as a legend, but not from me. The opening of this scene was her singing with then unknown Betty Grable, & unknown Lucy Ball as model.
even when only seen in b&w costumes are really important, the hollywood costumes exhibition had a section about The Artist which explained how they'd found out when making a b&w film in a all colour era just how important it was :) and who really is better than Fred and Ginger ;)
@UnholyxBlood Don't you worry, youngster(s), you were born in the right decade for you. All of you will learn that as you get my age and appreciate ALL the decades --and the people in them--there ever were.
Fred Astaire was a huge international star before he came to RKO. He and his sister Adele were so famous, the Royal Family and Winston Churchill were big fans of theirs. Yes, Fred and Ginger had a great partnership, but he had a 27 year career with his sister. They were huge Broadway stars, they made records, sold sheet music and they endorsed products for major companies, especially Adele. When she married a rich Lord and moved to a castle is Ireland, he came to Hollywood to make films.
Astaire choreographed all the routines he and Ginger did together. Hermes Pan did the ensembles. He & Pan got a six-week rehearsal between films while Ginger acted in other films. Yes, she was the better actor during their partnership, but look at Fred's tap solos and his drum dances (Damsel in Distress and Daddy Long-legs). Also, they danced backward equally, or side by side. Fred & Ginger were not in competition, they were partners & Fred danced for 27 years with his sister on stage.
@lotrlovermr Though potatoes do get mentioned as well in the lyrics of "A Fine Romance," the number in the snow in "Swing Time." The line is, "We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes/But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes." The marvelous Dorothy Fields came up with that.
I like the movie "Follow The Fleet". I think Fred & Ginger made a dynamic couple. They got their start in the movie "Flying Down To Rio" The majority of the sailors you see in the movie clip came from the US Naval station Long Beach.
They made dancing look so easy...but I know it is not! They were brilliant!
God these two make me smile every time I watch them.
Ginger and Fred are mesmerizing dancers and their skill and timing is astounding. They always cheer me up....I wish I could dance like Ginger she was extrodinary.
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Astaire did the choregraphy and his little magic trick which made him stand out was that he frequently allowed his feet to be very slightly behind the beat. This gave his dancing a tension as you almost subconsciously thought he would not catch up. That is genius.
And some studio executive dismissed him in his audition with comments like "...can dance a bit".
I love all of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, but the dancing, the music, the lyrics, and the jokes in "Follow the Fleet" make it my very favorite.
Fred and Ginger at their best....what a routine full of energy, and they show they're having fun doing it as difficult and exhausting as it must be. Delightful!
Why can't we have movies like this nowadays? My favorite of all of the Astaire-Rogers films is "Swing Time."
I was born too late...
MysticDestroyer13 Same here! Or maybe we were born then & came back for another round! 🤷🏻♀️
It doesn't get better than this... Fred and Ginger...WOW!!!
This is true heaven ... watching these two - they were pure magic !
People like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers should never die
Never!💖
I'm a 24 year old DJ and every time I'm out in the club DJing and I put on some swing music from this era, people lose it on the dance floor! Love this music.
I am 14 years old, and I can't stop watching these things. I started checking out Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's videos in the past few days, but I ABSOLUTELY love them. I can't stop dancing around the house :)
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Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath) was fabulous. She was the perfect dance partner for Fred Astaire in the mid-1930s and early-1940s. What they had, above all else, was that elusive quality called "Chemistry" when they danced. It's very, very rare, and it's why they're so great together. She deserves much, much credit for her movie work and is (was) truly one of the greats. Just my opinion. Peace.
They were just amazing together. They just were in sync!
These two are golden!
I wish so much to have been alive when Fred was.. I was born long after he died...
Fred Astaire is my absolute favourite!!! I love everything he does!!!
Dancing doesn't get much better than these two. Great video!
i love the dances, and i love the fact a live band is set up behind them!
Ginger made the difference with Fred. Everyone should be thanking her for her great contribution to the dance world because without her there just might not have been a Fred Astaire and wouldn't that had been a crime. There still would have been a Ginger Rogers. We should be grateful we also have Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire together. They are magical in dance, expression, and dialogue. They are so witty and comical together. They play off each other with supreme perfection.
Well, no. Not as far as the dancing is concerned. Astair took the lead. That she was able to follow wherever he led is amazing. and tribute to her great strength as a performer which was her boldness.
Never seen these two in action before. I can now say I am a bonafied top fan.
I adore Ginger!
It was also Ginger amazing acting that mad their movies so wonderful. She acted the way girls felt about Fred. Lets not forget their amazing chemistry.
Now THIS is 'dancing with the STARS'!
FRED AND GINGER ARE SIMPLY MAGICAL!
I love classic movies like these. This one is one of my favorites!
This young man, who seems to have flexible bones , and this young lady who matches him step for step, are unique in the annals of film. Almost a million views so far. Keep coming people, and keep this fabulous performance alive for future generations.
Nice to see clips from movies where you have to have real talent to actual star in.
Im 22 and love this. Wish Hollywood would make more movies like this. There will be no one like them again. They are angels. Could we stop insulting Ginger or Fred? What make them special are them together. Their movies would have not been the same without each other. Ginger did good dancing without having much training when they started out. It goes without saying Fred was amazing dancer.
Love this! one of my favorite dances they did together! This is one of my favorite movies. I love Ginger's outfit so cute!
What a great dancing pair. This episode was trully wonderful. We don't get stars or talent like this anymore. Thanks for posting.!
They never lose their magic… or the exquisite joy!
75 Years of letting yourself go, of facing the music and dancing.
What more can you ask for?
I have this on DVD as well as the other nine musicals they did together. Fred & Ginger had no competition. Their worked made huge revenues for RKO. They basically saved the studio from going bankrupt. Ginger was also making other movies all throughout her partnership with Fred Astaire. Movie stars like this don't exist anymore. I don't think today's generation of directors and producers, not to mention audience , cares much about large scale musicals.
moving perfection that takes your breath away, you have to "Let Yourself Go" when watching this beauty! Many thanks for posting this clip
Nothing Like these Two... Memories that No one can replace look at this Dancing with the Star's these two had it down to the T... No Mistakes! All Free No edits. No nothing.. There the Kind I would Love to have been there to see in person.. I felt I was there when I saw these two do a Movie together.. Thanks for the Memories I know there both Dancing In Heaven..
this is magic, it is simply the most amazing thing ever created!!!!!!
fred and ginger are artist beyond anything!!!!! i love dace and these people soooo much!
It's an honor to have been alive at the same time as Astaire, Basie, Mencken, and Billie Holiday.
My god...Im freaking 16 looking at these freaking classics...If i could only move like THAT...
Fred Astaire is just the cutest sailor I've ever seen...Love this danceroutine...and everyone else they ever did too of course :-D
Fred Astaire is just a GOD.
Ginger is a perfect partner.
These two know how to dance.
Simply great. Almost as from another planet...
In spanish: dos fenómenos del séptimo arte.Nunca igualados.Dos figuras que dominan el baile y serán recordados por siempre jamás.
I've meet Gingers in Paris when she was doing a show .She was nearly sixty nine
at the time She was not a great singer but she had the star quality something you can' define a real pro and a very charming lady . anice souvenir for me
Jmb
Pure magic.
Fred dancing with Ginger - it doesn't get any better!
Amen to that
@UnholyxBlood here here. I'm 20, but what you bring up is a beat we can all dance to. unfortunately for people like us, it takes a great deal of the population to make it a good generation. but so long as I see someone else out there every now and then that stands for what's right, I smile with hope. =)
I'm 17 years old and watching all these videos of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire just makes me think that I was born in the wrong decade >_
Ginger Rogers wasn't the best dancer of all the dancers Fred Astaire partnered with, but she was his best partner by a mile. She wasn't as highly trained in dance as his later partners, giving Astaire more leeway to mold her to his style, and they did a good job of that, together. She was his most seamlessly integrated partner, and you could really find it credible that he, as the man, lead Ginger, as the woman, in their dancing. I always see them as a team when they dance together, two parts of an almost perfect whole. When I watch him with more highly trained partners, I see them as two dancers, not that that's a bad thing, but for watching one of the most integrated dance partnerships in movie history, it's always Fred and Ginger, for me.
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Here-Here! Brilliant! Well Said! I'm going to share it. Bravo!
Ginger was an amazing dancer. Her, Ann Miller, Eleanor Powell, and Cyd Cherise were the best and most talented female dancers of Hollywood Golden age
@@alvexok5523 She was a mediocre dancer, not in the same with the other you mention at all.
@@MrCrowebobby , I guess. Ginger was probably a big star then more because of her pairing with Fred, and she was a real beauty with charisma. But, you may right that her dancing skills alone weren't as great as Eleanor Powell and Cyd Charise. Now that I think of it, when Ginger appeared alone without Fred in "42nd St" (1933), she didn't even stand out as anything exceptional, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell were the ones who carried that film. Even Una Merkel's performance stood out more than Ginger's there
Brilliant.....never gets old!
Super dupper- built-in metronome amazing: the energy, synochrony & perfection😚
im 17 years old n i feel like i was born in the wrong era too!! luv the old classic movies and music!!! friends tell me that i don't belong in this generation lol
Whenever the opportunity presents itself, I watch "Ginger and Fred" movies and imagine what it was like for cast members to see them dance. I'd have given anything to be among them! I especially liked "Roberta." Ya - I know ... I'm not the type you'd expect to be such a fan. Hey - what can I say!??
So fluid - they make it look so easy. Makes me want to break out in dance myself except I can't dance and now I'm depressed about it. (Sigh...) Oh well - I'll just have to dance vicariously through Ginger.
BEAUTY ,BEAUTY,BEAUTY, THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT.
LOVE fred astaire. LOVE LOVE LOVE him. I have an original copy of Follow the Fleet and it's a great movie. Not my favorite of Fred's but it's still one of the best. This song is a lot of fun too.
what a great pair! the best!
Fred and Ginger: Poetry in motion
Today's artless gyrating: Poultry in motion
Bravissimi, non è un tipo di ballo che mi appassiona, ma di fronte a due eccellenze come questi due , non posso che applaudire.
Класс! Потрясающе отточенные движения!
Thanks for the post. Saw this one al the way through Saturday night--an absolute gem. Just wish Astaire and Rogers had ten made more movies to enjoy!
LOVE IT!!!😁 My thanks for posting the best thing since sliced bread!😉 To: Fred & Ginger, the immortal duo!😚
too good, i adore them...
There is so much joy in so many of there routines together. In their romantic ballroom numbers, they look like they are in love. None of Aistaire's other partners on screen capture the same spirit. Cyd Charisse came closest in combining the dancing with acting a person in a particular situation. I've loved F & G since I first saw them in Shall We Dance on the Million Dollar Movie in NYC in 1957.
I agree with you on Fred and Cyd Charrise, and Fred and Judy Garland were great together in Easter Parade. Judy's big amazing talent was her singing, and Ginger's was dancing, so Ginger was Fred's best dancing partner of all. They were both amazing dancers in every film they starred together in
Fred Astaire is a genius that is all 😊
Ginger and her mother were really hard-core about her outfits, demanding particular shades of color even though the movies were black & white. I think they were right.
Love this number :D It's such a great choreography... fred and ginger are magical
thank you for posting such sharp footage of the most amazing dancers in the universe!!!!!!!!
Perfection. Nothing today comes remotely close to this. Fred and Ginger were incomparable.
rever esses artistas me deixa em estado de graça...
LOVE this number, straight from its cool, understated beginning at :01-:06. Timeless!
Wonderful classic pair, they really don't make em like they used to
what a body Fred has. Dancers are beautiful people.
One of their absolutely best dance numbers. Not as glamorous or dramatic as some but totally unique. Also, it is only one of two times in all their films that one really sees Gingers leg and foot work. The Gowns were spectacular but often camouflaged her brilliant dancing. NOTE..she did everything Fred did only in High Heels and backwards... She is often underpaid as a legend, but not from me. The opening of this scene was her singing with then unknown Betty Grable, & unknown Lucy Ball as model.
globalman
Icons of the cinema
Now that is how it's done! A dance-off against Fred and Ginger? Haha um, just give up guys, they're kind of unbeatable! :)
Please, somebody, upload "I'd Rather Lead a Band" from the same movie.
Incredible dance number-- for sure...
Love it!
even when only seen in b&w costumes are really important, the hollywood costumes exhibition had a section about The Artist which explained how they'd found out when making a b&w film in a all colour era just how important it was :) and who really is better than Fred and Ginger ;)
Dancer is correct. Backward steps are done generally in ballroom style. What we see here is dancing in parallel or mirror image.
@vintagefan92 you go girl!
she does them in heels though so it adds difficulty :D
Pure poetry in motion! Thanks for posting!
I love this!!!!👍👍👍👍👍💖💖💖💖
@UnholyxBlood Don't you worry, youngster(s), you were born in the right decade for you. All of you will learn that as you get my age and appreciate ALL the decades --and the people in them--there ever were.
Both great talent.
Dance perfection
Fred Astaire was a huge international star before he came to RKO. He and his sister Adele were so famous, the Royal Family and Winston Churchill were big fans of theirs. Yes, Fred and Ginger had a great partnership, but he had a 27 year career with his sister. They were huge Broadway stars, they made records, sold sheet music and they endorsed products for major companies, especially Adele. When she married a rich Lord and moved to a castle is Ireland, he came to Hollywood to make films.
Such Talent .
Great Irving Berlin song. Fred & Ginger are THE GREATEST!! Thanks for posting.
I think I saw the "roger rabbit" and the "kid and play". Hip hop dancers must love Astaire too. LOL!
Amazing choreography brilliantly executed. Great ly entertaining.
Astaire choreographed all the routines he and Ginger did together. Hermes Pan did the ensembles. He & Pan got a six-week rehearsal between films while Ginger acted in other films. Yes, she was the better actor during their partnership, but look at Fred's tap solos and his drum dances (Damsel in Distress and Daddy Long-legs). Also, they danced backward equally, or side by side. Fred & Ginger were not in competition, they were partners & Fred danced for 27 years with his sister on stage.
Adele, they say was his best partner, but never worked as hard as Ginger.
@lotrlovermr Though potatoes do get mentioned as well in the lyrics of "A Fine Romance," the number in the snow in "Swing Time." The line is, "We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes/But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes." The marvelous Dorothy Fields came up with that.
AMAZING
i really admire Ginger Rogers She had to do all the same steps as Fred Astaire but often backwards and in high heels!
no one would ever replace fred and ginger....in any lifetime
Simply magical......
You could have a kundalini awakening watching them. Who's not smiling after this?
Amazing what an extraordinary performance of dance within about three minutes!
exceedingly impressive and amusing:)
Fred & Ginger! They were giants when business is dance ...
I like the movie "Follow The Fleet". I think Fred & Ginger made a dynamic couple. They got their start in the movie "Flying Down To Rio"
The majority of the sailors you see in the movie clip came from the US Naval station Long Beach.
LOVE their move at 0.55
Watched that sequence OVER and OVER again!