Cheek to Cheek

A page for all things Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and all the Hollywood greats 🎩

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Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett pose for a portrait after the 48th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute celebrating Julie Andrews.

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Heroes!

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I love this two so much 😭❤️

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Happy Birthday Fred Astaire!!!❤️🎂

(May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987)

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He may be gone in body but he's alive in my heart!! 💖🎩

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Marilyn Monroe photographed for The Asphalt Jungle, 1950.

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Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall 1945

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Judy Garland photographed during Christmastime, circa. late 1940′s 

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His Girl Friday (1940) dir. Howard Hawks

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The Prince and the showgirl

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CAREFREE (1938) dir. Mark Sandrich

Remember when we were in college how stage-struck I was? I wanted to be a dancer. Psychoanalysis showed me I was wrong. It’s the one way we have of finding out what we really want and why we want it.

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❝ …The Casino was indeed a charming place for a quiet rendezvous. The low background music was perfect for a romantic dinner for two. We dawdled over the menu and finally ordered our supper, and then Fred asked me to dance. I made the happy discovery that as wonderful a dancer as Fred was on the stage, he was equally superb as a partner on the dance floor.

Part of the joy in dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time. They lose their rhythm. Fred was a delightful conversationalist and we chatted away. He really knew how to lead a girl around the floor and used each rhythm to introduce different footwork. Mind you, there was nothing showy about Fred’s ballroom dancing, it was understated and elegant. You could put yourself in his hands and trust to his feet.

We returned to our table and found our food waiting. It was cold, but we didn’t care. We were having such a good time. We got up to dance again and moved toward the bandstand to compliment Eddy Duchin on the music.

Eddy was pleased and looked at us with a twinkle in his eye as he said,

”Fred, you and Ginger really look good together.”

Fred laughed and put us into a three-second whirl while Eddy smiled approvingly. Too soon, Duchin’s band began its goodnight tune, signaling that the evening was over. I felt as though I could have danced all night. Within ten minutes we were on our way home in his handsome Rolls-Royce town car.

Like an aperitif, Fred’s well-trained chauffeur drove us through the park, so we could talk a wee bit more before we said adieu.

Finally, the car stopped in front of my building. The chauffeur got out and walked around the car, waiting on the sidewalk near the trunk for a signal as to when to open the car door. He must have waited about five minutes!

Inside the car, Fred had me in his arms, and the kiss that we shared in that five minutes would never have passed the Hays Office code! ❞

- excerpts from Ginger Rogers’ autobiography.

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And Fred hadn't sad a WORD about this in his autobio! *Fangirl squeals!!*

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Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet (1936) dir. Mark Sandrich

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This movie has such character, the dancing to the writing! 💖

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers goofing off during the filming of ‘The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle’ (1939)

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I Won’t Dance

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Roberta (1935)

Their third film together, and they're back to being the beta couple again, but with more screen time and songs than their first film, Flying Down to Rio (1933).

Jerome Kern wrote the music for this film, and he was a part of the generation of composers that preceded the swingers that resided in Tin Pan Alley, so jazzy rhythms didn't come naturally to him. Fred had to work strictly with him in order to get some songs like this one to have some swing that he liked to dance to.

But it all worked out in the end. As Fred said in his autobio, Steps in Time,

"Jerome Kern's music in this show was noted as one of his finest accomplishments."

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Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire dancing in Top Hat (1935)

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Every Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Dance Number “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” in SHALL WE DANCE (1937)

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ICONIC. ❤️

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a bit about me {4/20} — favorite movie: the sound of music

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Fred and Ginger - Shall We Dance (1937)

I just love this pose for them!