Thursday, November 20, 2008

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - They Can't Take That Away From Me


Why another upload of this most beautiful of all Ginger and Fred Dances, from their only color movie? Because it sets the scene in the context of the overall movie plot. Playing cupid, Oscar Levant tries to patch up the failing marriage between Dinah and Josh Barkley.
Besides being an OMG BEAUTIFUL woman, Ginger Rogers shows off her acting skills in this number. Tricked into dancing at a benefit, the separated Barkleys are obviously still in love. I am very impressed that Ginger never stops acting when she starts dancing. Ginger is not a dancer who could act, she is an actor who could dance.
In the 1937 movie "Shall We Dance" Fred sang the same Gershwin song "They Can't Take That Away From Me," but not as part of a dance sequence. In Barkleys the dance number is used to show that the separated couple is still very much in love.
If you can't stand to see the OMG GLAMOROUS Ginger cry, don't watch the very end of the clip. But fear not, they get back together in the end!
When the pyramids turn to sand, people will still be enthralled by this most glamorous and talented of all dance teams!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ0DWEbEAqA&feature=related

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