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 ...

Ginger Rogers would have turned 112 this week. We remember her and her collaboration with her most famous partner, Fred Astaire. Ginger Rogers, the late legendary actor and dancer from Hollywood's ...

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, ...

Choosing the best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical is a task no one should take lightly. But for the crazy exuberance of its sets, for its fantastic trio of second bananas (Eric Blore as an ...

09:13, Tue, Dec 9, 2025 Updated: 09:20, Tue, Dec 9, 2025 The legendary Hollywood duo starred in 10 films together between 1933 and 1949, and fans seem to think that this is "one of the best." Fred ...

This dress was worn by Ginger Rogers in the “Piccolino” scene of the 1935 RKO musical comedy film Top Hat. Bernard Newman designed this long off-white evening gown embroidered with beaded sequins. RKO ...

One of the best of the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals, Top Hat centers on a typical mistaken-identity plot, with wealthy Dale Tremont (Rogers), on holiday in London and Venice, assuming that ...