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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...
For 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...
Texas (Rogers 11-8) at New York (Key 17-4), 1:35 p.m.
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...