num_pages: 191
description: Fred and Ginger! Ginger and Fred! To delicious songs from America's greatest popular composers, they danced a chain of love duets across the Thirties that remain today the untouchable standard for American theatrical dancing. Apart, each was individual, brilliant. Together, they were ineffable; for the first and only time on the screen, a profound partnership was created by the act of dancing.In The Fred Astaire &amp; Ginger Rogers Book, Arlene Croce gathers together a thousand fascinating facts and production details about the nine (plus one) Astaire-Rogers movies and marries them to a dazzling, comprehensive analysis of all the Fred and Ginger numbers from those films. Lavishly keyed into the text at appropriate points are over 100 related photographs plus two unique flip sequences: the glorious "Waltz in Swing Time," the pounding "Let Yourself Go."Here is the definitive book on a memorable alliance. Fred and Ginger are together again!
language: English
title: The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers book
titlecomplete: The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers book
genres: Biography, Music, Nonfiction, Film, History
ratings_count: 96
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: Galahad Books