Still Ain’t No Lady

I may be Hugh Grant!

Alphabet Anthology Volume 2 - Chapter 29 - Anonymous_1701 - Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers - Fandom [Archive of Our Own]

Y for "You're So Sexy"

Summary: In the middle of a dance sequence, Fred loses his mind and makes a public confession. It's all on film.

Alphabet Anthology Volume 2 - Chapter 28 - Anonymous_1701 - Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers - Fandom [Archive of Our Own]

Chapter 28 - X for "Sign on the X"

In 1933, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers first danced together in the film, "Flying Down to Rio". Ginger actually got a better screen billing for the first and only time. She had made about twenty as a contract player. Astaire was new to Hollywood, with one anemic film to his name. "Rio" would catapult the pair of background characters to fame, as they stole the film out from under lead actress Delores del Rio.

David O. Selznick was the smart Studio head who signed Astaire, and Producer Pandro Berman would become a fixture on the "Fred & Ginger" films. Watching the dailies of the dance, they set in motion a series of events that would make history.

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Alphabet Anthology Volume 2 - Chapter 27 - Anonymous_1701 - Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers - Fandom [Archive of Our Own]

W for What Did He Say?

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire present the Oscars for Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) to Robert Bolt for "A Man for All Seasons", and for Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) to Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven for "A Man and a Woman", at the 39th Academy Awards, the 1967 Oscars. The event was hosted by Bob Hope. Fred was sixty-eight and Ginger fifty-six.

Things did not go quite as planned.

Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers in Lucky Partners (1940) | dir. Lewis Milestone

Fred Astaire receiving a Special Award

Both items in the same issue of Silver Screen magazine: May 1940