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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...
...some excitement, there's Astaire and Ginger's duo debut in "Flying Down to Rio," with a finale in which girls dance on the wings of moving airplanes. For sheer melodic and dancing enjoyment, try the bouncy "Lovely to Look At" sequence from the 1936 "Roberta," a musical with songs by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. For one of the greatest Gershwin songs sung with heart (if not virtuosity) to Rogers by Astaire, listen to "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from the 1937 "Shall We Dance...
...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...