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Flying Down to Rio

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December 7, 2022December 7, 2022

Flying Down to Rio (1933) starring Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

Synopsis of Flying Down to Rio

Flying down to Rio is an RKO musical, built around a romantic triangle. The main characters are played by Dolores del Rio, Gene Raymond and Raul Roulien. But it’s remembered for the third- and fourth-billed couple. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are paired for the first time, and steal the show. When the film ends, the last image we see isn’t the leads. It’s Fred and Ginger.

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March 30, 2022August 2, 2022

Finian’s Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn

Fred Astaire sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian’s Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola’s movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a lovestruck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic.

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August 9, 2020August 4, 2022

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers,

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is a wonderful Hollywood biography. It tells the story of the husband-and-wife ballroom dancing team Vernon and Irene Castle.

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May 22, 2020April 4, 2021

Song lyrics to Happy Easter, written by Irving Berlin, Performed by Fred Astaire and Judy Garland in Easter Parade

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May 5, 2020July 27, 2022

Song lyrics to Let’s Say It with Firecrackers (1942). Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin. Sung at the Holiday Inn by the chorus and danced by Fred Astaire on the 4th of July

Let’s say it with firecrackers
And banners held high
Let’s have a real old-fashioned noisy Fourth of July

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May 4, 2020April 6, 2022

Song lyrics to Easter Parade (1933). Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin. Sung by Bing Crosby on Easter Sunday in Holiday Inn, by Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade

In your Easter bonnet
With all the frills upon it
You’ll be the grandest lady
In the Easter parade

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May 3, 2020December 18, 2021

Song lyrics to I Can’t Tell a Lie (1942). Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin. Sung at the Holiday Inn by Fred Astaire on Washington’s Birthday

I could say that you’re homely
Just as homely as pie
But this is Washington’s birthday
And I’ve got to say you’re beautiful
‘Cause I can’t tell a lie

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April 27, 2020September 22, 2021

Song lyrics to You’re Easy to Dance With (1942). Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin. Sung by Fred Astaire and chorus in Holiday Inn

I could dance nightly
Just holding you tightly, my sweet
I could keep right on
Because you’re so light on your feet
You’re easy to dance with

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April 26, 2020December 18, 2021

Song lyrics to I’ll Capture Your Heart Singing (1942). Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin, Performed by Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and Virginia Dale in Holiday Inn

Here she comes, down the street
My, oh my, ain’t she sweet?
Why, here comes my hot toddy
Over my dead body

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November 27, 2019December 7, 2022

Top Hat (1935) starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore

Synopsis of Top Hat

The story of Top Hat centers on wealthy Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers), on holiday in London and Venice. She assumes that American entertainer Jerry Travers (Fred Astaire) is the husband of her friend Madge (Helen Broderick) — who’s actually the wife of Jerry’s business manager Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton)