Peter P Peters (Astaire), an American ballet dancer billed as ‘Petrov’ dances for a ballet company in Paris owned by the bumbling Jeffrey Baird (Horton). Peters secretly wants to blend classical ballet with modern jazz dancing, and when he sees a photo of tapdancer Linda Keene (Rogers), he falls in love with her. He contrives to meet her, but she’s less than impressed. They meet again on a liner travelling back to New York. Unknown to them, a plot is launched as a publicity stunt, ‘proving’ that they’re actually married. Peters and Keene, unable to scotch the rumour, decide to actually marry and immediately divorce. But they discover that they prefer being married.
Mark Sandrich (birth name: Mark Rex Goldstein) (October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945) was a Jewish American film director, writer and producer.
One of the most gifted and least heralded directors of the 1930s and early 1940s, Sandrich was an engineering student at Columbia University when he started the movie business by accident. When visiting a friend on a film set, he saw that the director had a problem in setting up a shot; Sandrich offered his advice. It worked. He then entered into the movies in the prop department, and became a director specializing in several comedy shorts in 1927. He then made his first feature the next year, but returned to shorts after the sound arrival. In 1933 he directed the Academy Award-winning short, So This Is Harris!. He later returned to feature films, most notably comedies, starring the team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Hips, Hips, Hooray!. In 1934, Sandrich soon got his first directing assignment on the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musical… read more
I know this isn't always considered one of their best, but it's my personal favourite if only because it was the one I watched repeatedly/obsessively on VHS as a kid. i love the fact that Rogers only really begins to fall for Astaire once she realises he's actually a tap dancer more than a ballet dancer. It is through the dancing that their most profound feelings for one another are expressed. Great screwball script.
Not the best of Sandrich/Astaire/Rogers film. Looks a bit messy. Ginger has no glitter in the eyes.
just saw it at the Film Forum. seeing it on the big screen, the way it was meant to be seen, with an audience was incredible.
They just don’t make movies like this anymore and there definitely isn’t a comparable screen duo working today. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers collaborated on an astounding ten films together; most… read review
