Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Follow the Fleet (RKO) was designed to take lean, prissy-looking Fred Astaire out of the gilded surroundings in which he has crooned and capered hitherto and put him before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with...
...years, she has taught herself to dance, with Astaire's help, until she has become a full-fledged teammate. Irving Berlin, now apparently a third but highly helpful wheel in the Rogers-Astaire tandem, wrote music and lyrics of all seven tunes used in Follow the Fleet. The more serious numbers, Here Am I, But Where Are You, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan, have a nostalgic catch that is characteristically Berlinish. They are sung by Harriet Hilliard whose general proficiency got her a starring contract when RKO officials saw Follow the Fleet previewed...
Arrayed as Admiral of the Fleet, the Sovereign last week held the first investiture of the new Edwardian reign at Buckingham Palace. Trooping gravely in came the distinguished Britons who figured in the last New Year's Honors List (TIME, Jan. 13), which beloved George V approved but did not live to sign. Of these the most famed is Feminist Christabel Pankhurst, who became at the hands of Edward VIII a sedately honored Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...Follow the Fleet" follows the flock of Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers dainties, which, in the past year, have delighted American lovers of song, dance, and whimsy. It musical score comes from Irving Berlin, and its plot is the product of the union of two Broadway successes, "Shore Leave" and "Hit the Deck...
...with all these high-sounding recommendations, "Fellow the Fleet" is topid at best. The producers had every reason to expect that a conglomeration of the above elements would find success easy and inevitable, but there is obviously lacking the spark of inspiration, indispensable to what is really good, even in the medium of celluloid. "Follow the Fleet" is the well-timed appearance of a cut-and-dried application of a tested formula...