It's wonderful that we have these Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers films to give us delight some seventy years after they were made. They occupy a unique niche in movie history representing a style that will never be again. It was an era before realism when there was no concern for believability. For example consider when Lucky, Penny, "Pop", and Mabel drive to the New Amsterdam lodge in their convertible in the snow (which is absurdly fake) with the top down no less. And then they hang around singing to each other. And Lucky's hopping on a train in a tuxedo and arriving looking fresh as a daisy. But the movie is so good-natured and the leads so elegant and winning that all is forgiven. What current movies will be watched seventy years from now? What current movies will then appear regularly on late-night TV?
Fred and Ginger dance with such joy that it is impossible for it not to rub off. The plot here is merely a device to provide something to hang the dancing and singing onto, and the dancing is special - the singing somewhat less so. How did they do that number with the backlit dancers?
This movie also offers us a glimpse into the 1930s, or at least 1930s film making. It must have been a trip to dance in those old art deco nightclubs. Such upbeat and sparkling movies surely helped a lot of people make it through the depression.
Fred and Ginger dance with such joy that it is impossible for it not to rub off. The plot here is merely a device to provide something to hang the dancing and singing onto, and the dancing is special - the singing somewhat less so. How did they do that number with the backlit dancers?
This movie also offers us a glimpse into the 1930s, or at least 1930s film making. It must have been a trip to dance in those old art deco nightclubs. Such upbeat and sparkling movies surely helped a lot of people make it through the depression.