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"Pick Yourself Up" is a popular song composed in 1936 by Jerome Kern, ... (1936), where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Rogers plays a dance ...
Fred Astaire recorded "The Way You Look To-night" in Los Angeles on July 26, 1936. [10] Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee recorded the song as a duet on August 19. [11] To take advantage of the song's success, pianist Teddy Wilson brought Billie Holiday into a studio 10 weeks after the film Swing Time was released. Holiday was 21 when she ...
I'm Building Up to an Awful Let-Down: 1936: Fred Astaire: Johnny Mercer: Los Angeles, January 30, 1936, Brunswick 7610 ... Pick Yourself Up: 1936: Ginger Rogers ...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's first movie together was Flying Down to Rio.. Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) and Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, nine of them released by RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1949, their only film in Technicolor.
Grave of Fred Astaire, at Oakwood Memorial Park Astaire's hand and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theater On June 24, 1980, at the age of 81, he married a second time. Robyn Smith was 45 years his junior and a jockey who rode for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr. (she also dated Vanderbilt in the 1970s), [ 59 ] and appeared on the cover of Sports ...
The best movie musicals to ever hit our screens, from 'The Sound of Music,' to 'A Star Is Born.'
It references the Fred Astaire-Cyd Charisse original in "The Band Wagon" but tells its own story, and it truly does create a narrative of two people meeting in a bar, falling in love, dancing ...
Other songs in Swing Time include "A Fine Romance", "Pick Yourself Up" and "Never Gonna Dance". The Oxford Companion to the American Musical calls Swing Time "a strong candidate for the best of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals" and says that, although the screenplay is contrived, it "left plenty of room for dance and all of it was ...