1949·Comedy·1h 48m
7.1
★
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
Directed by Charles Walters
dance
husband wife relationship
musical
dance team
stage actress
husband and wife act
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Cast
Fred Astaire
Josh Barkley
Ginger Rogers
Dinah Barkley
Oscar Levant
Ezra Millar
Billie Burke
Mrs. Livingston Belney
Gale Robbins
Shirlene May
Jacques François
Jacques Barredout
George Zucco
Judge
Clinton Sundberg
Bert Felsher
Inez Cooper
Pamela Driscoll
Carol Brewster
Gloria Amboy
Claire Carleton
Marie (uncredited)
Joyce Mathews
Genevieve (uncredited)
Crew
Charles Walters
Director
Adolph Green
Screenplay
Harry Warren
Original Music Composer
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Irene
Costume Design
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervision
George Gershwin
Music
Sydney Guilaroff
Hair Designer
Popular Reviews
22 reviews
Luz
8.0★ · 05/04/26
"You know what I like about you, Gloria? You're free of the slavery of talent"
And her name is Gloria. I'm-
"We may never, never meet again, on the bumpy road to love. Still I'll always, always keep the memory of... The way you hold your knife. The way we danced till three. The way you changed my life"
"You know what I like about you, Gloria? You're free of the slavery of talent"
And her name is Gloria. I'm-
"We may never, never meet again, on the bumpy road to love. Still I'll always, always keep the memory of... The way you hold your knife. The way we danced till three. The way you changed my life"
Lily
9.0★ · 04/19/26
"that I know is, You'd be hard to replace."
˚ ༘ . 𝄞₊⊹౨ৎ 𔘓ִֶָ˚˖𓍢ִ໋༘⋆
Ginger Roger's in a purple suit, practically doing a slut drop as a form of stretching and having hair that deserves its own payroll. Anyways, I'm doing just fine after this... the kids are alright (meaning me).
˚ ༘ . 𝄞₊⊹౨ৎ 𔘓ִֶָ˚˖𓍢ִ໋༘⋆
Ginger Roger's in a purple suit, practically doing a slut drop as a form of stretching and having hair that deserves its own payroll. Anyways, I'm doing just fine after this... the kids are alright (meaning me).
"that I know is, You'd be hard to replace."
˚ ༘ . 𝄞₊⊹౨ৎ 𔘓ִֶָ˚˖𓍢ִ໋༘⋆
Ginger Roger's in a purple suit, practically doing a slut drop as a form of stretching and having hair that deserves its own payroll. Anyways, I'm doing just fine after this... the kids are alright (meaning me).
˚ ༘ . 𝄞₊⊹౨ৎ 𔘓ִֶָ˚˖𓍢ִ໋༘⋆
Ginger Roger's in a purple suit, practically doing a slut drop as a form of stretching and having hair that deserves its own payroll. Anyways, I'm doing just fine after this... the kids are alright (meaning me).
Mona
10.0★ · 12/19/25
*♫ ” the way you’ve changed my life,
*oh no, they can’t take that away from me. ” ♫
and suddenly my top 4 feels wrong...
fred and ginger dancing is everything
*♫ ” the way you’ve changed my life,
*oh no, they can’t take that away from me. ” ♫
and suddenly my top 4 feels wrong...
fred and ginger dancing is everything
Lily
8.0★ · 06/08/25
“Without my clever and brilliant wife to perform them… any material would look pretty darned wonderful.”
. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄
Movie 10/10 of watching every Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's movie and this has got to be the most amazing film-watching experience I've had, ever. From meeting in 1930 and doing their first film together for RKO in 1933, they spanned their on and off screen relationship up until 1949.
From getting more of a feel with the decade of the 1930's, I would actually say that it is the wittiest and most sarcastic decade for film. Or that may just be Astaire's and Roger's talent with eachother, to be so connected in all forms. Dancing wise, comedy wise and chemistry wise.
ₓ˚. ୭ ˚○◦˚.˚◦○˚ ୧ .˚ₓ
It's hard to describe the feeling of their movies, it's like magical, unworldly and hard for me to imagine that two people can do that. I read an interview from Ginger which she had said that before every movie they had 6 weeks of hard labour practice/rehearsals. You would've thought it was 6 months, 6 years even. Incredible.
୨♡୧
For Their last movie, The Barkleys Of Broadway- Judy Garland was actually meant to play in Gingers place. I'm not sure why maybe because Fred and Judy had worked already with Charles Walters (the director) for the movie, Easter Parade. And it was a Metro movie which was never before seen for both Fred and Ginger as their were signed with RKO for the majority of their careers together. This is also their only technicolour film, which I love, but it's definitely different after watching 9 other black and white ones...
°∘♡∘°
**Behind the scenes tidbit:This film marked Astaire and Rogers’s only Technicolor pairing, and featured one of Hollywood’s then-longest kisses—breaking their prior no-kiss streak from nine RKO films .
* ⃗ ೃ༄
Anyway, I loved every minute of this saga and if any of yous have seen none or one of their movies, PLEASE try and watch them all. It's so captivating to see them grow as people and actors. Now I will be crying in a corner knowing that ill never be able to watch any of these masterpieces for the first time again ⭑･ﾟﾟ･:༅｡.｡༅:ﾟ::✼✼:ﾟ:༅｡.｡༅:*･ﾟﾟ･⭑
Truly beautiful ♡
. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄
Movie 10/10 of watching every Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's movie and this has got to be the most amazing film-watching experience I've had, ever. From meeting in 1930 and doing their first film together for RKO in 1933, they spanned their on and off screen relationship up until 1949.
From getting more of a feel with the decade of the 1930's, I would actually say that it is the wittiest and most sarcastic decade for film. Or that may just be Astaire's and Roger's talent with eachother, to be so connected in all forms. Dancing wise, comedy wise and chemistry wise.
ₓ˚. ୭ ˚○◦˚.˚◦○˚ ୧ .˚ₓ
It's hard to describe the feeling of their movies, it's like magical, unworldly and hard for me to imagine that two people can do that. I read an interview from Ginger which she had said that before every movie they had 6 weeks of hard labour practice/rehearsals. You would've thought it was 6 months, 6 years even. Incredible.
୨♡୧
For Their last movie, The Barkleys Of Broadway- Judy Garland was actually meant to play in Gingers place. I'm not sure why maybe because Fred and Judy had worked already with Charles Walters (the director) for the movie, Easter Parade. And it was a Metro movie which was never before seen for both Fred and Ginger as their were signed with RKO for the majority of their careers together. This is also their only technicolour film, which I love, but it's definitely different after watching 9 other black and white ones...
°∘♡∘°
**Behind the scenes tidbit:This film marked Astaire and Rogers’s only Technicolor pairing, and featured one of Hollywood’s then-longest kisses—breaking their prior no-kiss streak from nine RKO films .
* ⃗ ೃ༄
Anyway, I loved every minute of this saga and if any of yous have seen none or one of their movies, PLEASE try and watch them all. It's so captivating to see them grow as people and actors. Now I will be crying in a corner knowing that ill never be able to watch any of these masterpieces for the first time again ⭑･ﾟﾟ･:༅｡.｡༅:ﾟ::✼✼:ﾟ:༅｡.｡༅:*･ﾟﾟ･⭑
Truly beautiful ♡
“Without my clever and brilliant wife to perform them… any material would look pretty darned wonderful.”
. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄
Movie 10/10 of watching every Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's movie and this has got to be the most amazing film-watching experience I've had, ever. From meeting in 1930 and doing their first film together for RKO in 1933, they spanned their on and off screen relationship up until 1949.
From getting more of a feel with the decade of the 1930's, I would actually say that it is the wittiest and most sarcastic decade for film. Or that may just be Astaire's and Roger's talent with eachother, to be so connected in all forms. Dancing wise, comedy wise and chemistry wise.
ₓ˚. ୭ ˚○◦˚.˚◦○˚ ୧ .˚ₓ
It's hard to describe the feeling of their movies, it's like magical, unworldly and hard for me to imagine that two people can do that. I read an interview from Ginger which she had said that before every movie they had 6 weeks of hard labour practice/rehearsals. You would've thought it was 6 months, 6 years even. Incredible.
୨♡୧
For Their last movie, The Barkleys Of Broadway- Judy Garland was actually meant to play in Gingers place. I'm not sure why maybe because Fred and Judy had worked already with Charles Walters (the director) for the movie, Easter Parade. And it was a Metro movie which was never before seen for both Fred and Ginger as their were signed with RKO for the majority of their careers together. This is also their only technicolour film, which I love, but it's definitely different after watching 9 other black and white ones...
°∘♡∘°
**Behind the scenes tidbit:This film marked Astaire and Rogers’s only Technicolor pairing, and featured one of Hollywood’s then-longest kisses—breaking their prior no-kiss streak from nine RKO films .
* ⃗ ೃ༄
Anyway, I loved every minute of this saga and if any of yous have seen none or one of their movies, PLEASE try and watch them all. It's so captivating to see them grow as people and actors. Now I will be crying in a corner knowing that ill never be able to watch any of these masterpieces for the first time again ⭑･ﾟﾟ･:༅｡.｡༅:ﾟ::✼✼:ﾟ:༅｡.｡༅:*･ﾟﾟ･⭑
Truly beautiful ♡
. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄. ˚◞♡ ⃗ ೃ༄
Movie 10/10 of watching every Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger's movie and this has got to be the most amazing film-watching experience I've had, ever. From meeting in 1930 and doing their first film together for RKO in 1933, they spanned their on and off screen relationship up until 1949.
From getting more of a feel with the decade of the 1930's, I would actually say that it is the wittiest and most sarcastic decade for film. Or that may just be Astaire's and Roger's talent with eachother, to be so connected in all forms. Dancing wise, comedy wise and chemistry wise.
ₓ˚. ୭ ˚○◦˚.˚◦○˚ ୧ .˚ₓ
It's hard to describe the feeling of their movies, it's like magical, unworldly and hard for me to imagine that two people can do that. I read an interview from Ginger which she had said that before every movie they had 6 weeks of hard labour practice/rehearsals. You would've thought it was 6 months, 6 years even. Incredible.
୨♡୧
For Their last movie, The Barkleys Of Broadway- Judy Garland was actually meant to play in Gingers place. I'm not sure why maybe because Fred and Judy had worked already with Charles Walters (the director) for the movie, Easter Parade. And it was a Metro movie which was never before seen for both Fred and Ginger as their were signed with RKO for the majority of their careers together. This is also their only technicolour film, which I love, but it's definitely different after watching 9 other black and white ones...
°∘♡∘°
**Behind the scenes tidbit:This film marked Astaire and Rogers’s only Technicolor pairing, and featured one of Hollywood’s then-longest kisses—breaking their prior no-kiss streak from nine RKO films .
* ⃗ ೃ༄
Anyway, I loved every minute of this saga and if any of yous have seen none or one of their movies, PLEASE try and watch them all. It's so captivating to see them grow as people and actors. Now I will be crying in a corner knowing that ill never be able to watch any of these masterpieces for the first time again ⭑･ﾟﾟ･:༅｡.｡༅:ﾟ::✼✼:ﾟ:༅｡.｡༅:*･ﾟﾟ･⭑
Truly beautiful ♡
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I’m touched, the piano’s touched, and Tchaikovsky’s touched.
I’m touched, the piano’s touched, and Tchaikovsky’s touched.