Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers starred in 10 films together, and one of them is being aired on BBC Two today - and fans are ...

Apart from the music and dancing, the canonical movie musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are almost unwatchably cloying and ridiculous. Then again, saying that is like saying that, apart from ...

Astaire and Rogers by Edward Gallafent Columbia University Press, 256 pp., $24.95 THE PLACE of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the American dance couple, perhaps even the American romantic couple, ...

It was the Great Depression and movie goers flocked to theaters just to get a few hours of escapism, which is exactly what they got on December 29, 1933 with what turned out to be the very beginning ...

The best way to see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is not on a huge screen in a theater. Nor is the best way on video. Sure, for lack of an ideal opportunity, both ways may be acceptable, but the full ...

If any show in the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists series looked like a sure thing, it was “Fred and Ginger in So Many Words: The Astaire-Rogers Songbook,” which had five performances, Saturday ...

Fred Astaire was quite possibly the greatest crossover artist of all time. Revered by George Balanchine, one of classical ballet’s most esteemed choreographers, and by Michael Jackson, one of the ...

According to Hollywood legend, Fred Astaire's first screen test led a grumpy studio executive to issue the famously shortsighted pronouncement: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." ...

As the star of cherished Hollywood song-and-dance movies such as Top Hat and The Band Wagon, Fred Astaire appeared to live in ...

After the early success of “The Jazz Singer” and 1929’s “The Broadway Melody,” audiences’ interest in movie musicals began to fade. The films were clunky and stilted, and only Paramount directors ...

Ballet isn’t often served with a side of champagne truffles, but Los Angeles-based American Contemporary Ballet invited audiences to enjoy confections, literal and figurative, at weekend performances ...