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Article: Ginger & Fred; Golden era of dance returns in film series at AFI Silver Theatre.(ARTS)(FROM THE VAULTS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2003
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Byline: Gary Arnold, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Perhaps the most beloved musical comedy partnership in movie history, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers remain unrivaled more than half a century after they made their final movie together, "The Barkleys of Broadway," a reunion project at MGM in 1949 that became feasible only when Judy Garland fell ill and Miss Rogers was willing to replace her.
The remaining nine Astaire-Rogers musicals were compressed into a six-year period, 1933-39, at RKO. This enduringly fascinating body of work will be revived at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre for two weeks, starting Friday with a showing of "Flying Down to Rio," ...