At last the Academy acknowledges that it's possible to create movie musical magic without necessarily employing each and every chorus-dancer in Hollywood.Here's how it goes: Fred bursts in on Ginger while she's in the middle of washing her hair and sings this most intimate of love songs while her mop is covered with carefully coiffed soapsuds.As with "Thanks for the Memory" two years later, Astaire- who doesn't need to dance to put over a love song-demonstrates that sometimes the most awkwardly unlikely moments in a relationship can be the most tenderly touching.Note that Jerome Kern enhances his delightful melody with "humming" passages in between lines, making the song even most sensitively sweet.Incidentally , while Astaire sings this in more of a slow ballad tempo in the picture, his commercial version is strictly in dance time. Теги:FredAstaireThewayyoulooktonight
In this Swing Time clip, Lucky, Astaire, saves Penny's, Rogers, job by showing how much she has taught him. The first true dance number with the two, the other being with Fred fumbling and pretending to be a terrible dancer. Both scenes, however, go to the same song, Pick Yourself Up, this scene without lyrics and much more lively with the other more calm, with lyrics, between the two. Music by Jerome Kern and Lyrics by Dorothy Fields Теги:AstaireFredRogersGingerSwingTimePickYourselfUpTapDanceDancingNumberSceneMusicalJeromeKernFieldsDorothy
Sorry about the widescreen mode - I can't alter it - anyway here is Fred and Ginger dancing what I think is their masterpiece - i would also have just tipped Irving Berlin's great song to win the academy award over Kern's The Way You Look Tonight Теги:Irving BerlinFollow The Fleet
