American Film History: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Agnes de Mille formerly said that the truest expression of people is in its leaping and in its music. Bodies neer reside. (Warner, p30) And indeed, Fred Astaire and zest Rogers, a most kn let leap duo epitomized the meaning of linguistic process and emotions through their leaping that was ever caught in film.As such, while both film actors never gained recognition in their acting line of achievements in their 10 renowned musicals, they nevertheless veritable their most deserved place in the history of American film as iconic symbols of dance that brought poetry and poem to the human body.Fred and Ginger ar Broadway actors in advance they came to Hollywood. Fred was a st while dancer and choreographer whose career in acting and dancing started at a very early age during which he partnered with his sister Adelle in vaudeville theater shows.When his sister married, he went on his own to make a name in a Broadway musical, Gay Divorce. (Harvey and Sennett, pp 23-25) Ginger on the other hand started her Broadway ledger main course in Top Speed, which catapulted her to a hand role the following year in the musical, Girl Crazy. In 1931, the celluloid, The Tip Off marked her entry to Hollywood.(Whissen, p282-283) Both Fred and Ginger have corking and blossoming careers apart from each other, until their beginning(a) matching came in 1933 in a film that will lead to the uncovering of the unparalleled chemistry and charisma of their dancing prowess to the astonishment and delight of the aftermath public. This marked the commencement of a dance collaboration that will entertain the American people in the next duette of decades that continued to remain unrivaled in the world up to this date. flight Down To RioIn 1933, Flying Down to Rio was rendered into a film and starting signal featured Fred and Ginger dancing in concert. It was a cognise triangle story betwixt Roger, Belinha and her fianc, Julio. Roger leads an orchestral band where Fred an d Ginger are members.Fred was the assistant band leader who vie the accordion while Ginger was the lead vocalist for the band. In pursuing the love of Belinha, Roger left his band which gave the opportunity for Fred to tint up. In the end, Roger and Belinha successfully get together leaving the band to Fred and Ginger.Both Fred and Ginger were not the lead characters in the film just now their dance performance especially in the airplane-wing-dance at the end of the story took the public eye that overshadowed the plot and the main characters of the story. In fact, the pairs performance is what enjoined the people to comply the film and gained its critical acclaim.Incidentally, one of the celebrated dance moves introduced in the movie is the forehead-to-forehead stance, the Carioca, which introduced the stupid samba dance to US movie audiences.(Berry, p131) This instantly became a national dance craze. The movie claimed its due place in the American film history for unearthing the dance magic of Fred and Ginger that obtained vast call down among the masses and initiated their unequaled dance fusion in the coming years.