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Post by petrolino on Sept 19, 2020 2:23:16 GMT
The LOOK
'The Way You Look Tonight' - Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman
'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' - The Platters
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 19, 2020 13:43:56 GMT
Thanks for the great tribute to "the look" of a one of a kind performer, petrolino. An amazing dancer and wonderful actress - drama, comedy, musicals et al. A woman hard not to love. (And born in the then small town of Independence, Missouri, now a suburb of Kansas City.) I forget that she started in vaudeville. But she sure made her mark in films, starting when she was a teenager. Love her, all the way back to the era in which your pictures so beautifully define that wonderful look.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 19, 2020 14:00:05 GMT
Ginger and Fred figurines were available at an auction site, I though they could be nice and unusual to have, but not for $100.  Thanks for the Ginger tribute! |
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Post by politicidal on Sept 19, 2020 15:50:44 GMT
Surprisingly I hadn't seen any of her movies. I should rectify that.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 20, 2020 0:23:46 GMT
Thanks for the great tribute to "the look" of a one of a kind performer, petrolino. An amazing dancer and wonderful actress - drama, comedy, musicals et al. A woman hard not to love. (And born in the then small town of Independence, Missouri, now a suburb of Kansas City.) I forget that she started in vaudeville. But she sure made her mark in films, starting when she was a teenager. Love her, all the way back to the era in which your pictures so beautifully define that wonderful look. Thanks!
I was looking at Ginger Rogers' hair in the early 1930s and it kinda looked like Peggy Lee's hair in the early 1940s. I had to find a recording of 'The Way You Look Tonight' because I have that song going round my head this week after hearing it in a documentary.
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Post by spiderwort on Sept 20, 2020 14:01:51 GMT
Surprisingly I hadn't seen any of her movies. I should rectify that.
Oh, man, do you have some wonderful things to look forward to! I'd start with one or more of these exceptional Rogers-Fred Astaire films: Top Hat, Swing Time, and Carefree. I also love her in Billy Wilder's The Major and the Minor, George Stevens' Vivacious Lady, and Gregory LaCava's Stage Door, in which she's part of a terrific ensemble. Oh, and there's William Wellman's Roxie Hart, too (the basis for the musical, Chicago). And I guess you should also watch her Oscar winning performance in Kitty Foyle, though personally I don't care for the film that much. And Bachelor Mother with David Niven is another very good one.
I also always loved her in The Gold Diggers of 1933, in which she has a smaller role, but she sings the iconic song, "We're in the Money" (at the age of 22). Enjoy!
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 20, 2020 15:01:55 GMT
I like this scene with Lucille Ball and Lucy Arnaz -
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 20, 2020 18:40:46 GMT
The famous “Fred and Ginger” movies numbered 10. The first 9 were at RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 and 1939. They finally ended because Ginger wanted to prove herself as a dramatic actress. (see won an Oscar for her 5th released film after leaving Fred).
But 10 years later Fred and Ginger made one last movie together (their only one in color) but it didn’t happen because either star asked for a reunion. “The Barkleys of Broadway” (1949) began life as a second matching of Fred and Judy Garland after their success in “Easter Parade.” Rehearsals had barely begun, though, before Garland began calling in sick. Her old problems of exhaustion, headaches and emotional vulnerability had sent her back to her sick bed. It was only then that Ginger Rogers was approached to step in. The two stars still dance beautifully together as if 10 years had not gone by since the last time.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 20, 2020 23:39:04 GMT
I like this scene with Lucille Ball and Lucy Arnaz - Great clip, bravo. And I just remembered Rogers and Ball go all the way back to The Stage Door (1937), if not before that! A little before. Ball had bits in Roberta and Top Hat (both 1935), but she and Rogers played their first scenes together in '36's Follow The Fleet.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Sept 21, 2020 22:54:10 GMT
Wonderful pictures! I adore her. She was a wonderful dramatic actor. Would have loved to see her do more dramatic rolls. But, of course, loved to see her dance. I met her in 1971 or 72 in New Jersey. She was so tiny!!!!! And just so nice!!!
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 22, 2020 0:54:59 GMT
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