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Your Turn, Harvard: SMU Women’s Rowers Throw Down ‘Call Me Maybe’ Challenge
Ginger Rogers, as they say, did everything Fred Astaire could do — except she could do it backwards and in high heels. So now that the Harvard men’s baseball...
That Wealth Spreader.
In the 1943 movie Tender Comrade, Ginger Rogers utters the words "Share and share alike--that's democracy." Nobody objected at the time, but four years later,...
That Old Feeling: A Stellar Astaire
They were all dancers. James Cagney propelled himself through space like a bullet or a bull terrier, his torso a few seconds ahead of his legs; anyone without a...
CINEMA: MAKERS OF MELODY
In The Jazz Singer, after Al Jolson says, "You ain't heard nothin' yet," he doesn't burst into speech. He sings Toot Toot Tootsie. In the dawn of sound, talking...
Cinema: Sore Glums Absolute Beginners
Musicals used to trade in innocence. Fred Astaire could get a thrill just from being caught in the rain with Ginger Rogers. Gene Kelly shouted, "Gotta dance!" as...
Fred Astaire: 1899-1987: The Great American Flyer
Elegance is usually an imposition, a set of mannerisms employed by the swells to cover their emptiness and maintain their distance from us plebeians. Fred...
Cinema: Dancing Girl
No. 1 current trend in U. S. cinema is biography. Biographical cinema got off to a good start three years ago when Warner Bros. made The Story of Louis Pasteur,...
Cinema: Can Dance a Little
They were all dancers. Cagney propelled himself through space like a bullet or a bull terrier, his torso a few seconds ahead of his legs; anyone without a...
Movies: Ginger Peachy
Is Ginger Rogers ready for the museum? Wellyes and no. At 55, she is still a star, hoofing and puffing her way through Hello, Dolly! on Broadway at well over...
Books: Memory Lane
THE FRED ASTAIRE AND GINGER ROGERS BOOK by ARLENE CROCE 191 pages. Outerbridge & Lazard. $9.95. He had an undernourished clown's face, an indeterminately skinny...
