Apart from the music and dancing, the canonical movie musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are almost unwatchably cloying and ridiculous. Then again, saying that is like saying that, apart from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the Great Depression and movie goers flocked to theaters just to get a few hours of escapism, which is exactly what they ...

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, ...

If any show in the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists series looked like a sure thing, it was “Fred and Ginger in So Many Words: The Astaire-Rogers Songbook,” which had five performances, Saturday ...

For their Pops appearance, Hess and Ward will perform Astaire-Rogers choreography in "Cheek to Cheek" (from "Top Hat"), and Ward will follow Gene Kelly's footsteps in the title number from "Singin' in ...

ASPEN When Aspen’s Bob Klineman says that Swing Time is the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films, you might wonder if its just the nostalgic memory of an 81-year-old whose heart remains with ...

According to Hollywood legend, Fred Astaire's first screen test led a grumpy studio executive to issue the famously shortsighted pronouncement: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." ...

An Italian couple's slow dance with a little help from Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers has helped people smile during a dark time with the country under quarantine from the coronavirus. A couple couldn ...