Re-visiting one of the best books on Hollywood movies and *the* best book on the Astaire-Rogers films: “The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book,” by Arlene Croce, 1972. Opinionated and elegantly written, it is worthy of the subject it covers.

“In those years dancing was transformed into a vehicle of serious emotion between a man and a woman. It never happened in movies again.”

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Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in their one-off musical, “The Barkleys of Broadway” (1949) — only one at MGM rather than RKO, only one in Technicolor, and made a decade after their others.

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In an Astaire-Rogers film, “Follow the Fleet,” it’s Harriet Hilliard who gets the shout out from that 1936 LA Times page as amongst the “Best Performances in Current Pictures”:

“Pleasant new find who can boast an appealing voice. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers attract with snappy dancing. Randolph Scott and Astrid Allwyn competent.”

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The server I’m on here is having trouble with images at the moment, so I’ll instead put forth the conundrum that when all sorts of obscure old films have been and continue to be released on Blu-ray (and rightfully so!), why is only one of the ten Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers masterpieces so issued? 🤷‍♂️

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