This image lives rent free in my head
Ginger and Ronald Colman in the 50s
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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.
This interaction!
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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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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.
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Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers in Lucky Partners (1940) | dir. Lewis Milestone
Graffiti Ginger
Sometimes it’s the way he looks at her, sometimes it’s the way she looks at him.
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Chapter 26 - V for Veni, Vedi, Veci
It's 1931, and Prohibition is in full effect.
Fred and his girlfriend, Phyllis, are out on the town at the infamous Club 21 in NYC, on a double date with his sister, Adele, and her boyfriend Charlie - or more properly, Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, the second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire and the Lord of Lismore Castle in Ireland.
Adele and Fred have been headlining Broadway shows and having tremendous success on the Vaudeville circuit for decades now. The duo were incredibly popular, not just in the States, but abroad. On one of those visits, Adele had met the man she brought to the restaurant tonight.
Not one to be deterred by titles or expectations, Adele makes the move that will take her off the stage forever and into the newspapers for another reason entirely.
Gorgeous Ginger