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 ...

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, ...

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers starred in 10 films together, and one of them is being aired on BBC Two today - and fans are ...

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 ...

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made nine musicals together at RKO studio, the first in 1933, the last in 1939 — and then one more in 1949. In the process, they revolutionized the Hollywood musical.

Fred’s first and longest-lasting dance partner was his sister Adele, who was two-and-a-half years older than Fred and can be credited with leading him into the dancing life. As the Australian theater ...

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 ...

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 ...