Gambling Ginger
- Fred Astaire as Lucky Garnett
- Ginger Rogers as Penny Carroll
- Victor Moore as Pop Cardetti
- Helen Broderick as Mabel Anderson
- Swing Time (1936)
Ginger Rogers in Swing Time (1936) dir. George Stevens
Ginger Rogers and mother in the set of Swing Time
Ginger doing ginger things
I love how – no matter how many other people are in the scene, or behind the scenes, or expecting something of them – Fred and Ginger are totally focused on each other, in their own world.
“You probably think I’m silly.”
“Yes, I’m afraid I do.”
It’s blurry, I know. But Fred’s facial expressions in the Never Gonna Dance number are something else.
Damn it, just kiss!
“He was a great dancer and a very good choreographer. She was an excellent dancer – not as good as he, but excellent. And they seemed to get along well.” – Pandro S. Berman in a 1986 interview for BBC Four, responding to a question about Fred and Ginger’s chemistry.
They ‘got along well’ from the man who said they fought. Hmmm.
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Swing Time, 1936.
His face