Bookworm Room » Ginger Rogers http://www.bookwormroom.com Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:36:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Just Because — Fred & Ginger http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/10/20/just-because-fred-ginger/ http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/10/20/just-because-fred-ginger/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:53:17 +0000 Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9146

I was reading the news — none of it good — and desperately felt the need for a little joy and beauty.  This number, from the 1936 movie Swing Time, beautifully brings together one of America’s great popular music composers (Jerome Kern) and two of the most elegant, exciting dancers who ever set tap to the floor (Fred & Ginger).

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…and we deserve some beauty in our lives:

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Because they weren’t top billed, many people forget that Fred & Ginger were together in 1933′s Flying Down to Rio, when Ginger was the bigger star.  It’s a wonderfully fun movie, with beautiful location shots from Rio, gorgeous costumes, wild music and great dancing.  Here’s Ginger in a great solo piece:

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