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Fred Astaire And Ginger Rogers
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, nine of them with RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, ''The Barkleys of Broadway'', with MGM in 1949, their only color film. Career at RKO Astaire and Rogers were first paired together in the 1933 movie ''Flying Down to Rio''. They were cast in supporting roles, with fifth and fourth billing, respectively, but their performance in the "Carioca" number was the highlight of the film, and RKO Radio Pictures was eager to capitalize on their popularity. In 1934, Astaire and Rogers made the musical movie ''The Gay Divorcee'', which co-starred Edward Everett Horton. It was their first joint starring roles in a movie and grossed even more than ''Flying Down to Rio'', with worldwide rentals of $1.8 million;Richard Jewel, "RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951", ''Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television'', Vol. 14, No. 1, 1994, p. 55 the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Down To Rio Astaire And Rogers
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Roberta (1935 Film)
''Roberta'' is a 1935 American musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was an adaptation of the 1933 Broadway musical ''Roberta'', which in turn was based on the novel ''Gowns by Roberta'' by Alice Duer Miller. It was a solid hit, showing a net profit of more than three-quarters of a million dollars. The film kept the famous songs " Yesterdays", "Let's Begin" (with altered lyrics), and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from the play, along with a fourth song, "I'll Be Hard to Handle". Three songs from the play were dropped—"The Touch of Your Hand", "Something Had to Happen" and "You're Devastating". Two songs were added to this film, "I Won't Dance" (resurrected from the flop Kern show '' Three Sisters'') and "Lovely to Look At", which both became #1 hits in 1935. The latter addition was nominated for the Best Song Oscar. The songs "I Won't Dance" and "Lovely to Look At" have remained so popular that they are now almost always in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlene Croce
Arlene Louise Croce (born May 5, 1934) founded ''Ballet Review'' magazine in 1965. She was a dance critic for ''The New Yorker'' magazine from 1973 to 1998. Career Prior to Croce's long career as a dance writer, she also wrote film criticism for ''Film Culture'' and other magazines. The keynote of her criticism can be grasped from her ability to evoke kinesthetic movement and expressive images in her writing. Although she considers ballet to epitomize the highest form of dance, she has also written extensively on the topic of popular and filmed dance, and is a recognized authority on the Astaire and Rogers musical films. In 1994, she courted controversy with her stance on Bill T. Jones's '' Still/Here'', a work about terminal illness. In an article called "Discussing the Undiscussable," she dubbed the work "victim art" and refused to attend any performances, claiming that it was "unreviewable." The article was reprinted in her 2000 book, ''Writing in the Dark''. Her writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Gonna Dance (song)
"Never Gonna Dance" is a song performed by Fred Astaire and danced with Ginger Rogers in their movie ''Swing Time''. The lyrics were written by Dorothy Fields and the music was by Jerome Kern. This dramatic dance was performed at the end of the movie after John 'Lucky' Garnett (Astaire) finds out Penelope 'Penny' Carroll (Rogers) is engaged to Ricardo 'Ricky' Romero (played by Georges Metaxa). This is a dance of desperation, despair and love. It starts slowly, Lucky not wanting Penny to leave. As she is walking up the stairs, he begins his serenade to her in hopes that she will understand how heartbroken he is over losing her. After he is done singing, he tries to win her back one more time dancing. So, elegantly and desperately, he pulls out all the stops, hoping to change her mind. At first, the dance is slow and somber, but eventually the pace and tempo pick up, and Lucky and Penny seem to be together again. However, in the final movement, Penny twirls out of the room and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mueller
John E. Mueller (born June 21, 1937) is an American political scientist in the field of international relations as well as a scholar of the history of dance. He is recognized for his ideas concerning "the banality of ethnic war" and the theory that major world conflicts are quickly becoming obsolete. Career Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, he received his AB from the University of Chicago in 1960 and his Master's (MA Thesis: The Politics of Fluoridation in Seven California Cities) and PhD (PhD Dissertation: Reason and Caprice: Ballot Patterns in California) from UCLA in 1963 and 1965, respectively. He currently is the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and a professor of both political science and dance at The Ohio State University. Mueller was Jon Stewart's guest on the October 31, 2006 episode of ''The Daily Show'' featuring the Midwest Midterm Midtacular: Battlefield Ohio, discussing his book '' Overblown' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way You Look Tonight
"The Way You Look To-night" is a song from the film ''Swing Time'' that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. Fields remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful." In the movie, Astaire sang "The Way You Look To-night" to Ginger Rogers while she was washing her hair in an adjacent room. Astaire's recording was a top seller in 1936. Other versions that year were by Guy Lombardo and Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday. Composition and publication The song was sung by Fred Astaire in the 1936 film ''Swing Time'' in the key of D major, but it is typically performed in E-flat major with a modulation to G-flat major. It was first copyrighted on March 17, 1936 as "Way (The) you look to-night; song from I won't dance", and was unpublished ("I Won't Dance" was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Face The Music And Dance
"Let's Face the Music and Dance" is a song written in 1936 by Irving Berlin for the film ''Follow the Fleet'', where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and featured in a celebrated dance duet with Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The jazz song has also been covered by various artists years following its release, including Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Todd Gordon and others. Background The song was composed and written by Irving Berlin. Berlin's repertoire of Hollywood compositions was growing at the time, as he ‘adapted’ to the trends and ideas in vogue in Hollywood. “Let’s Face the Music and Dance’s” debut as an original song for the Hollywood film, ''Follow the Fleet'', signified the popularisation of jazz, demonstrating a notable example of jazz on the silver screen. This jazz composition adheres to the typical conventions within the genre of jazz in the 1930s paradigm, classed as part of the ‘classical age.' “Let’s Face the Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swing Time (film)
''Swing Time'' is a 1936 American musical comedy film, the sixth of ten starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Directed by George Stevens for RKO, it features Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Set mainly in New York City, the film follows a gambler and dancer, "Lucky" (Astaire), who is trying to raise money to secure his marriage when he meets dance instructor Penny (Rogers) and begins dancing with her; the two soon fall in love and are forced to reconcile their feelings. Noted dance critic Arlene Croce considers ''Swing Time'' Astaire and Rogers' best dance musical,Croce, pp.98-115 a view shared by John MuellerMueller, pp.100-113 and Hannah Hyam. It features four dance routines that are each regarded as masterpieces. According to ''The Oxford Companion to the American Musical'', ''Swing Time'' is "a strong candidate for the best of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals". '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Follow The Fleet
''Follow the Fleet'' is a 1936 American RKO musical comedy film with a nautical theme starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, fifth collaboration as dance partners. It also features Randolph Scott, Harriet Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in supporting roles. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich with script by Allan Scott (American screenwriter), Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor (writer), Dwight Taylor based on the 1922 play ''Shore Leave'' by Hubert Osborne. ''Follow the Fleet'' was extremely successful at the box office, and during 1936, Astaire's recorded versions of "Let Yourself Go (Irving Berlin song), Let Yourself Go", "I'm Putting all My Eggs in One Basket", and "Let's Face the Music and Dance" reached their highest positions of 3rd, 2nd, 3rd respectively in the US Hit Parade. Harriet Hilliard and Tony Martin made their screen debuts in thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motion Picture Herald
The ''Motion Picture Herald'' was an American film industry trade paper published from 1931 to December 1972.Anthony Slide, ed. (1985)''International Film, Radio, and Television Journals'' Greenwood Press. p. 242. It was replaced by the ''QP Herald'', which only lasted until May 1973.Robert A. Osborone (1973)''Academy Awards Oscar Annual'' ESE California. p. 10. It was established as the ''Exhibitors Herald'' in 1915. History The paper's origins begin 1915 when a Chicago printing company launched a film publication as a regional trade paper for exhibitors in the Midwest and known as ''Exhibitors Herald''. Publisher Martin Quigley bought the paper and over the following two decades developed the ''Exhibitors Herald'' into a national trade paper for the US film industry. In 1917, Quigley acquired and merged another publication, ''Motography'', into his magazine. In 1927, he further acquired and merged the magazine ''The Moving Picture World'' and began publishing it as ''Exhibitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quigley Publishing Company
Martin Joseph Quigley Sr. (May 6, 1890 – May 4, 1964)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American publisher, editor and film magazine journalist. He founded '' Exhibitors Herald'', which became an important national trade paper for the film industry. He was also the founder of Quigley Publishing. Publishing and journalism career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Quigley began his career as a police reporter in Chicago in 1910. He purchased the film trade journal ''Exhibitors Herald'' in 1915. Two years later, he acquired and merged ''Motography''. In 1927, he acquired and merged ''The Moving Picture World'' and began publishing as ''Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World'', later shortened to ''Exhibitors Herald World''. After acquiring ''Motion Picture News'' in 1930, he merged these publications into the ''Motion Picture Herald''. Quigley followed this shortly after with the merger of his remaining three publications, ''Exhibitors T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll
The Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll were polls on determining the bankability of movie stars. They began quite early in the movie history. At first, they were popular polls and contests conducted in film magazines, where the readers would vote for their favorite stars, like the poll published in ''New York Morning Telegraph'' on 17 December 1911. Magazines appeared and disappeared often and among the most consistent in those early days were the polls in the ''Motion Picture Magazine''. Though this and numerous other magazines, like '' Photoplay'', continued with this type of poll, the standards for the polling were set by the Quigley Publishing Company. They published a poll, which became known as the "Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll", from a questionnaire sent to movie exhibitors every year between 1915 and 2013 by Quigley Publishing Company. The list was based on a poll of movie theater owners, who were asked to name who they felt were the previous year's top 10 money-making stars. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
