Astaire and Rogers
Series: Film and Culture Series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780231126274
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Dance; Films, cinema; Individual actors & performers; Performing Arts; Biography / Autobiography; Cinema/Film: Book; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses; Film & Video - General; Performing Arts / Film / General
First sentence: The status of Flying Down to Rio as marking the opening of the Astaire-Rogers cycle is purely retrospective: its audience and its producers could not know of the films to come with which we associate it, and if conditions had arisen to prevent the making of another movie with these two actors, there would be no light thrown on it by the rest of the cycle.