Astaire & Rogers Ultimate Collector's Edition

"The Astaire And Rogers Collection, Volume 2" includes: "Flying Down To Rio" - Their first screen teaming, Rogers and Astaire are fourth- and fifth-billed, but their magic was undeniable. When the film ends, the last image we see isn't the lead. It's Fred and Ginger. "The Gay Divorcee" - In one of their best loved, most charming song-and-dance comedies, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers demonstrate just how they became best known as America's greatest dance team. "Roberta" - Fun's in fashion when Fred, Ginger, Irene Dunn and Randolph Scott enter the world of Paris fashions. Marvelous Jerome Kern music graces standards like "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" and "I Won't Dance." "Top Hat" - It's a wake-up call for romance when Fred's exuberant "No Strings" dance in his hotel suite disturbs the sleeping beauty (Ginger) in the room below. "Follow The Fleet" - Astaire is Bake Baker, a hoofer now given to stepping a sailor's horn-pipe while he and other swabbies patrol the seas for democracy. Rogers is his former partner ...

Release Date: 2006-10-24, Rating Unrated,

Celebrated duo Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers have 11 of their movies gathered for this collection. The titles included are ASTAIRE AND ROGERS - PARTNERS IN RHYTHM THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY CAREFREE FLYING DOWN TO RIO FOLLOW THE FLEET THE GAY DIVORCE ROBERTA SHALL WE DANCE THE STORY OF VERNON IRENE CASTLE SWING TIME and TOP HAT. Please see individual titles for synopsis information.

DVDs. Astaire & Rogers Ultimate Collector's Edition

While Volume 1 in The Astaire & Rogers Collection features the best-known films of this phenomenally popular 1930s screen duo, Volume 2 showcases Fred and Ginger in five more eminently entertaining musical comedies, each boasting top-drawer production values, excellent casts, and hit songs by some of Americas greatest popular composers. Flying Down to Rio (1933) actually stars Gene Raymond and Dolores Del Rio, two largely forgotten stars of Hollywoods Golden Age, but supporting players Astaire and Rogers -- paired for the first time -- steal the show with their high-spirited stepping. Among Rio's more memorable sequences is one of the daffiest production numbers ever committed to celluloid, featuring scantily clad chorus girls riding atop old-fashioned biplanes. The Gay Divorcee (1934), the teams first official starring vehicle, takes its title and premise from a Broadway smash. While only one Cole Porter tune made the jump from stage to screen, luckily it was a little ditty entitled Night and Day. (A non-Por

Release Date: 2006-10-24, Rating Unrated,

Celebrated duo Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers have 11 of their movies gathered for this collection. The titles included are ASTAIRE AND ROGERS - PARTNERS IN RHYTHM, THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY, CAREFREE, FLYING DOWN TO RIO, FOLLOW THE FLEET, THE GAY DIVORCE, ROBERTA, SHALL WE DANCE, THE STORY OF VERNON & IRENE CASTLE, SWING TIME, and TOP HAT. Please see individual titles for synopsis information.