⚜On the wings of the night amidst the stars ⚜

I honestly wish Fred&Ginger had made a thriller/ horror movie together. That would've been so very cool! 😃😊😎

I don't know if I'm stirring up issues here but I've recently been looking into Gene Kelly a bit more because I thought my Fred&Ginger-loving could use a little bit more versatile entertainment around every now and then. I've been really trying to like Gene Kelly somewhat but it honestly isn't very easy when you're so used to Fred Astaire. Artistically it's alright but on a personal level not so easy. So really, I was trying to be more open-minded and was trying to see him in a better light and then I come across stuff like this here:

While I genuinely hope there is better context to this, I have to say this ends my little excursion. My girl Ginger will ALWAYS have my top affection here. From this quote I really have to say, what an a**!!! I understand why she never danced one step with him and good on her!

I'll put this quote from Fred here for balance because it seems fitting and I need some genuine reassurance for Ginger in this whole thing.

Happy, happy birthday, Ginger! Happy 113th! ☺️😊🍀💚

Virginia Katherine McMath (16.07.1911-25.04.1995)

I love you, you will always be lovingly remembered. 💗

It's completely useless that I participate at all in the Fred&Ginger fandom. Whatever I do gets ignored and people do their thing amongst themselves. I wish there were cool people somewhere, who understand and enjoy what I enjoy about the Old Hollywood stuff and particularly Fred&Ginger. Maybe Facebook has a group that is fun? Also Instagram might be a place to look, I think more people of varied age and background might be there. I'm extremely tired of whatever this thing on Tumblr's supposed to be socially.

Another Fred&Ginger thought that I don't fully care if it's realistic or not and it's really more of a question.

I've watched "Once upon a Honeymoon" (1942) with absolute delight and I could recommend that movie to everyone, it's really swell and entertaining even (remarkable for a movie that is set in the middle of the war)!

Anyways, there is so much meta I would enjoy to unpack but I've been thinking about one scene. Cary Grant in my opinion is a really good partner for Ginger in the movies that they've made. Not so much romantically but as a friend, as an opposite to play her comedic side wonderfully and as a good guy and friend she could relax with and be a couple with. At least that was my impression of their on-screen exchange. I would have to read up on what Ginger had to say about it and what Cary Grant thought about it.

So anyway, about this one scene, it takes place in the second half of the movie when they're in Paris again and have their pictures taken by a bit of a shady fella at first. Cary Grant moves to leave in order to buy them both new clothes after their long journey and he leaves her with the shady photographer for a while. His character does otherwise a pretty good job at keeping her safe all through the craziness of that movie. Which is quite a bit to mention, my grandparents were on actual tracks as actual wartime-refugees and this stuff is absolutely so much no joke.

Ginger pleads him not to go, which I personally found heart-wrenching. It's a bit unusual for her in my opinion but it seemed so honest. In a very small voice she pleads with him and if he really has to go. This is the scene I am referring to:

So now the big sparkling question is - would Fred have left her there? There is so much to say about the whole thing and why Cary Grant's character is somewhat more likely to not really hear her plea and leave her there. If this were a real story, I still think Ginger was miles better off with a guy like Cary Grant than with a guy like Fred Astaire in the midst of this war and survival time. But still, for this specific scene I have been trying to find an answer for myself and I haven't yet. Would Fred have left her there or would he have heard her plea and acted differently? I want to tell myself that he would've made sure to stay with her automatically. But honestly I really don't know. I've been trying to compare it with similar situations in their movies together but I haven't found a satisfying answer yet.

Still, a really good movie that you can rewatch many times just for the light footed way in which the story is told. I wish Ginger and Cary Grant had made more movies also. ☺️

Just adding in some Fred&Ginger thoughts. I don't really care how definitely realistic they are, maybe a little hopeful thinking can have its merits too. ;)

So what I thought is that if Hermes Pan, their choreographer/ friend hadn't been gay, that would most likely have posed a real problem. It helped them have a harmonious relationship as it was.

It just dawned on me, that "The X-files" was first aired in 1993 and Ginger Rogers lived until 1995. There is a possibility, however small, that she might've watched it once or twice. This is wild to think about! 😁😊

I'm wondering not for the first time what Fred might've thought about Ginger in "Storm Warning" (1951). I'm pretty sure he saw all of her movies. It's unreal how beautiful she is there but it's also really graphic and hard to watch. I desperately need fanfiction about him watching her in that film (and what he might've done afterwards) !!!

I really like when Pinterest does these little 'random' things, I think it's so cute and I love it. ☺️💗

So I wanted to share them with you:

The text says "In every moment that touches us, there is a little piece of eternity." 😊

rascals!!! 😄

Honestly the research for my new story (Fred&Ginger-fanfiction) is proving more and more interesting.

I was researching some misogynistic works of fiction and some of the usual authors popped up. I continued reading through their works and the time frame and at some point, someone in the discussion mentioned that you really can't talk about misogynistic authors without mentioning Sidney Sheldon. Okay, so I looked him up as I'm not always so familiar with American authors. Reading through his works it certainly hit me in the face - he wrote for Hollywood a lot and what appears right on top of that list? "Easter Parade" and "The Barkleys of Broadway", both of which Judy Garland was originally supposed to star in with Fred, Ginger (luckily) filled in for the latter movie. And so the wheel is come full circle, I daresay. This is considerably making me think. 🤨

I know it got more so when he continued to make movies with other dancers, who were subsequently younger and younger. But I can't stop thinking about how Ginger was a tender 19 years old when she met Fred in 1930 and he was 31 years old. At that age, the difference is still pretty measurable, I remember when I was 19. Granted these were different times back then and people generally married earlier but honestly at 19 years old I was still very inexperienced and very much an older teenager. I had an acquaintance and I think he was around 32 at that time too. We only wrote letters online and it was fine, I probably didn't think as much of it as he did back then. 😅😉 It was nice and I never met him physically, which is okay with me, it wasn't particularly romantic in any sense.

But to think that bouncy little Ginger met Fred at that age is a bit of another thing because they met physically and danced physically and had a relationship physically, even though I'm not sure how physical because she was a devout Christian, which I very much appreciate her for.

But 12 years is a difference, especially at that age. It can make you think how that really went for them.