“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels.” - Faith Whittlesey. Ginger was so pretty, so elegant and such a wonderful, graceful dancer. Paired with Fred Astaire the two made a charming …
By 1939 Fred and Ginger had made nine black & white Movies at RKO. It would be ten years before they would make their last film at the MGM “Dream Factory,” their only color film “The Barkleys of B
The house/flat I grew up in … was all over the world. Between the ages of 8 and 13, my mum and I travelled so we had no fixed abode and I was out of school for ages. It set me up well for the life I lead now, one based in rootlessness.
In their first film “Flying Down To Rio” Fred and Ginger had only one dance number. The first “classic” Fred and Ginger dance film was “The Gay Divorcee” followed by “Roberta” and “Top Hat.” Fred and