Astaire and Rogers by Edward Gallafent Columbia University Press, 256 pp., $24.95 THE PLACE of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the American dance couple, perhaps even the American romantic couple, ...

It was the Great Depression and movie goers flocked to theaters just to get a few hours of escapism, which is exactly what they got on December 29, 1933 with what turned out to be the very beginning ...

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will pay tribute to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with two performances in November. According to a press release, “The world’s most famous dancing duo will be ...

The American director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall won an Olivier award and eternal gratitude for her superb, uplifting staging of Anything Goes at the Barbican across the pandemic-tainted ...

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear International has closed a raft of international deals on EFM titles Longlegs and Fred & Ginger, we can reveal. The two projects were among the most in-demand with foreign buyers ...

Fred & Ginger, the new musical biopic based on the lives of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, will begin production later this year. Deadline reports that GRAMMY winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear ...

This dress was worn by Ginger Rogers in the “Piccolino” scene of the 1935 RKO musical comedy film Top Hat. Bernard Newman designed this long off-white evening gown embroidered with beaded sequins. RKO ...

Ginger Rogers, the late legendary actor and dancer from Hollywood's golden age, would have turned 112 this week. And that seems like a fine reason to let critic Bob Mondello wax nostalgic about Rogers ...

Like a long-awaited gift from movie heaven, five of the 10 films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together arrive on DVD this week for the first time. They are nicely remastered, though not ...

To make matters even more complicated, both actors playing Astaire on the big screen, Jamie Bell and Tom Holland, have played the title role in Billy Elliot in the past. Since it may be confusing to ...