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, ...
Ginger Rogers, the late legendary actor and dancer from Hollywood's golden age, would have turned 112 this week. And that seems like a fine reason to let critic Bob Mondello wax nostalgic about Rogers ...
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made nine musicals together at RKO studio, the first in 1933, the last in 1939 — and then one more in 1949. In the process, they revolutionized the Hollywood musical.