In You Said a Mouthful, shipping clerk Joe Holt (Joe E. Brown) invents an unsinkable swimsuit. But he’s unsuccessful in selling it. A socialite (Ginger Rogers) mistakes him for a famous swimmer with the same name and enters him in a 20-mile race. But Joe doesn’t even know how to swim!
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In The Gay Divorcee, Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) is looking for a way out of her unhappy marriage. So, her busybody aunt (Alice Brady) hires a professional correspondent to pose as her niece’s lover. When Mimi meets American dancer Guy Holden (Fred Astaire), she thinks he’s the faux beau, and she confuses his genuine interest for part of the act.
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Quotes from Ginger Rogers – star of stage and screen, actress, singer, and dancer
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Song lyrics to Don’t Mention Love to Me, Music by Oscar Levant, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields, Sung by Ginger Rogers in the movie In Person
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In Person is the story of Miss Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her fame, that she goes around in disguise. She later meets a rugged outdoors man who is unaffected by her star status. And pursued by her frequent co-star, who likes her. But doesn’t respect her acting ability.
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They All Laughed is a song written for Shall We Dance where it was introduced by Ginger Rogers as part of a song and dance routine with Fred Astaire.
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At the conclusion of Shall We Dance, Peter P. Peters (Fred Astaire) wishes to dance on stage with his estranged, newlywed wife (Ginger Rogers). So, he has hired a group of dancers, and given them each a mask to look like her. But, she’s infiltrated the dance group, and starts singing … and Fred has to find her.
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In The Major and the Minor, a frustrated city girl (Ginger Rogers) decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little “Sue Sue” finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby (Ray Milland). And he insists on taking her to his military academy after their train is stalled. And the inevitable romantic triangle with the Major’s girlfriend.
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They Can’t Take That Away from Me was also performed by Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Barkley’s of Broadway, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Mr. Holland’s Opus, and Rain Man.
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