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These song lyrics from "The Way You Look Tonight" were first featured in the 1936 black-and-white musical "Swing Time." Fred Astaire sang them to the ineffable Ginger Rogers, who was coiffed and dressed as immaculately as always, ready to waltz (or tango, or foxtrot) into his arms...
This Tuesday, Ginger Rogers died at 83 years old. In her movies, however, she is immortal. The song's lyrics apply to her now just as they did 60 years ago--and not just as sung by the man with whom she danced, but as felt by the millions over the past half-century who have watched her films with Astaire...
...teaspoon ginger...
...Ginger Rogers, the 1940 Oscar-winner best remembered for dancing cheek-to-cheek with Fred Astaire in a string of glittering, Depression-era musicals, died at her home in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs. The pair first danced during Broadway rehearsals for "Girl Crazy," a 1930 Gershwin musical. Her close friend President Reagan (in an uncredited paraphrase of a Gloria Steinem one-liner) said in 1986: "Her male counterpart got the lion's share of publicity but Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and did it with high heels on, and did it backwards...
...small room with, among other treasures, Marilyn Monroe's Seven Year Itch dress and one of the Citizen Kane "Rosebud" sleds--is in immediate need of expansion; it displays only a tenth of the boots and booty Reynolds has collected from other auctions and such friends as Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller and Ann-Margret. Debbie even pays tribute to an ex-friend: in the theater is a Cleopatra headdress worn by Elizabeth Taylor, who seduced and married Debbie's first husband, Eddie Fisher. It's all grist for Debbie's sweet obsession; she now has some...