Ballroom dance sequences from The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers) (1939)
Subject
Popular culture--United States--History--20th century
Ballroom dancers
URL
The Last Waltz
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Too Much Mustard
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The Tango
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Description
Musical film depicting the ballroom dance careers of Vernon and Irene Castle.
Content description from Imdb.com (by Rod Crawford)
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031983/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1):
In 1911, Vernon Castle, minor comic in a stage revue, pursues the leading lady to a New Jersey beach...where, instead, he meets stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they're married; at Irene's insistence, they abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career, which attempt only lands them in Paris without a sou. Fortunately, agent Maggie Sutton hears them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. But at the height of their fame, World War I begins...
Ephemera: none available
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Original Format
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Creator
H. C. Potter (director)
Richard Sherman (screenplay author)
Oscar Hammerstein II (screenplay adaptation)
Dorothy Host (screenplay adaptation)
Irene Castle (author of "My Husband" and "My Memories of Vernon Castle")
Follow the Fleet (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers) (1936) (no video link)
Subject
Motion picture
Musical
Fred Astaire
URL
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Description
Content description by Diana Hamilton on IMDB.com
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027630):
When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing: Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her; and despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One clipping from Under Cover magazine with program listing circled.
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Dance sequences from Carefree (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers) (1938)
Subject
Ballroom dancing
Motion pictures
Swing (Dance)
URL
Dream sequence
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Yam Dance
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Mesmerizing dance
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Description
Content description from IMDB.com
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029971/):
A psychiatrist agrees to hypnotize his friend's girlfriend in order to convince her to accept his proposals of marriage, but she ends up falling for the psychiatrist instead.
Ephemera: none available
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Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Mark Sandrich (director)
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers)
Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano (screenplay)
Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde (story and adaptation)
Flying Down to Rio (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Gene Raymond (performers) (trailer) (1933)
Subject
Musicals
Motion pictures
Airplane wing dance
URL
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Description
Content Description from WorldCat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Down_to_Rio):
Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 American pre-Code RKO musical film noted for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, although Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond received top billing and the leading roles. Among the featured players are Franklin Pangborn and Eric Blore. The songs in the film were written by Vincent Youmans (music), Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu (lyrics), with musical direction and additional music by Max Steiner. This is the only film in which Rogers was billed above famed Broadway dancer Astaire.
The black-and-white film (later computer-colorized) was directed by Thornton Freeland and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Lou Brock. The screenplay was written by Erwin S. Gelsey, H. W. Hanemann and Cyril Hume, based on a story by Lou Brock and a play by Anne Caldwell. Linwood Dunn did the special effects for the celebrated airplane-wing dance sequence at the end of the film. In this film, Dolores Del Rio became the first major actress to wear a two-piece women's bathing suit onscreen.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. One small clipping from Under Cover magazine with program listing and brief description. Handwritten note on folder: Under Cover KAET, 18 August, 1985.
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Creator
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Dolores del Río, and Gene Raymond (performers)
Swing Time (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers) (trailer) (1936)
Subject
Swing (Dance)
Swing (Music)
Motion pictures
URL
Trailer
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Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Time_(film)):
Swing Time is a 1936 American RKO musical comedy film set mainly in New York City, and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It features Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. The film was directed by George Stevens.
Ephemera: Text saved from original ephemera. Small clipping from program guide. Cinema Classics. Swing Time (1936)--A young man's romance is hampered by his engagement to a girl back home. One of the best Astaire-Rogers films, songs include Jerome Kern's A Fine Romance and The Way You Look Tonight. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Betty Furness star. Handwritten notes: Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire. 5 Aug.1985 - KAET.
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The Gay Divorcee (motion picture) - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (performers) (trailer) (1934) (no video link)
Subject
Motion picture
URL
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Description
Content description from IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025164):
An American woman travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband, where she meets - and falls for - a dashing performer.
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Original Format
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Creator
Mark Sandrich (director)
George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, and
Edward Kaufman (writers)
Shall We Dance (motion picture) - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers (performers) (trailer) (1937)
Subject
Motion picture
Ballroom dancing
URL
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Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_We_Dance_(1937_film)):
Peter P. Peters (Fred Astaire), an American ballet dancer billed as "Petrov", dances for a ballet company in Paris owned by the bumbling Jeffrey Baird (Edward Everett Horton). Peters secretly wants to blend classical ballet with modern jazz dancing, and when he sees a photo of famous tap dancer Linda Keene (Ginger Rogers), he falls in love with her. He contrives to meet her, but she is less than impressed. They meet again on an ocean liner traveling back to New York, and Linda warms to Petrov. Unknown to them, a plot is launched as a publicity stunt "proving" that they are actually married. Outraged, Linda becomes engaged to the bumbling Jim Montgomery (William Brisbane), much to the chagrin of both Peters and Arthur Miller (Jerome Cowan), her manager, who secretly launches more fake publicity.
Peters and Keene, unable to squelch the rumor, decide to actually marry and then immediately get divorced. Linda begins to fall in love with her husband, but then discovers him with another woman, Lady Denise Tarrington (Ketti Gallian), and leaves before he can explain. Later, when she comes to his new show to personally serve him divorce papers, she sees him dancing with dozens of women, all wearing masks with her face on them: Peters has decided that if he cannot dance with Linda, he will dance with images of Linda. Seeing that he truly loves her, she happily joins him onstage.
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Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape