Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: Love You Madly

[26sherrybaby]

THIS IS ONE OF MY VERY FAVS!!! THANK YOU!!!

[kevinastraw]

The problem with this is that the music degrades the dancing.

[arising777]

@kevinastraw Well, we can always put our own interpretation to the music, or play our own music or just hit mute. It definitely made me want to dance!

[gabiluz1796]

What and elegance!

[irishrule53]

Fred and Ginger were never more perfect. I love this video. The music is great. Fantastic editing. I love the end. Make more!!!

[jobirgheidi]

Thank you. Really enjoyed watching these two. They were brilliant.

[pixie180]

That was amazing!!! Right to my favorites! They were truly magical.

[surfzion]

We do enjoy it !

[CaptainPolaris]

A wonderfully made video. Kudos!

[SiSiLuvthis]

cOO!

[Relbodnegoh]

This is absolutely awesome! Very well done and I thought it was hilarious how you ended with the car-chase from Roberta. Never before and never again will we see such a perfect Hollywood couple.

[folly5girl]

This is perfection!!! Thank you for this gift ♥

[MAYNARDN06]

I love Fred & Ginger.

[007dawn]

Now that is entertainment!

[Christinabrat85]

This is awesome.

[CandyEden]

Wonderful !!!

[chynnasport]

there awsome did they ever get together

[roseytrebles]

@chynnasport

They ARE awesome, heheh--and they actually did date briefly in New York, but they broke up when Ginger went to California to try to get started in the film business. Then Fred met his future wife shortly thereafter, and was married by the time they saw each other again to make movies. Hard to say exactly how serious Fred and Ginger were about each other but he was very, very happy with his wife until she died, so I don't think there were any regrets!

[chynnasport]

@roseytrebles thats cool

[katandbaby]

never knew that! might help explain the wonderful chemistry present in all their films :)

[LOVE2Flute]

Excellent

[Nesswytcherley]

I can't stop watching it. I love it! You are good at this! Are there more in the making?? 5 stars and favorite!

[roseytrebles]

@Nesswytcherley

Thanks so much! And hopefully I'll get around to making more at some point, heheh--if only school didn't get in the way....

[Leahbad]

Well done!! ;)

[KMortimer07]

I love this!! It's one of my most memorable youtube videos! Well done!

[shevaleigh]

Stellar :-) Nice finish too! :-D

[rebelde089]

loved this video...it's definetly going on my favorites =D

[lividfarmer]

Great stuff! What movie is the clip at 3.25 from. if you don't mind me asking?

[roseytrebles]

Thank you! The clip where they bow to each other is from Roberta; and the one right before it (just to make sure I'm talking about the right one, heheh) is from Swing Time. :)

[lividfarmer]

Thanks, yeah Swing Time is the one I mean, looks swoontastic :) Great editing & song choice, I hope you get a chance to do another one!

[roseytrebles]

It certainly is swoontastic! As a matter of fact that number, "Never Gonna Dance," may be my favorite Astaire/Rogers sequence ever (so hard to choose though....) so I would totally recommend it. And Swing Time as a whole is such, such a good one.

[kuninokunino]

Comments on the quality of Astaire's acting are sorta irrelevant because of the remarkable number of bad films he appeared in -- and improved enormously. In the films when his acting doesn't seem all that good, look around: is anybody else there doing well. The other actors were providing caricatures, so evidently that's what the directors wanted.

I think his acting was perfectly okay in Flying Down to Rio -- in 1933. Naturally, with more life experience, his acting changed in later years.

[elvisnutkid]

Happy 110th birthday Fred

u rock

[roseytrebles]

Yes, Happy Birthday Fred!!! He's looking very spry for his age, heheh.

[elvisnutkid]

yep totally having a bday party 4 him at my house lol

[roseytrebles]

Sigh...I wish I was! I don't know anyone around me who ever knows who he is.

[elvisnutkid]

no one around here knows him either but i celebrated with me myself and i lol

[roseytrebles]

Nice!! Now why didn't I think of that...?

[elvisnutkid]

idk u didnt use ur imagiantion lol

[kaltheas]

awesome!!!good job^-^ keep it up!!^-^

[Jonastrange]

thanks for this!

i cannot agree more that fred and ginger made one hot couple dancing together!

I miss them both <3

[kuninokunino]

You're a wonderful editor, andf this is the best compilation of its type I've ever seen. When does the Cyd Charisse one arrive?

[roseytrebles]

Oh, thank you so much! And I don't know, heheh, but I'll keep it in mind--Fred and Cyd did make a lovely pair.  It was so sad when she died last summer.

[keleigh97]

Hey, I enjoyed the music and the editing. You did a fantastic job. I love Ginger and Fred. They are and will be until the end of time a magical duo dancing through time and space. Whenever they are on the screen together, dancing or talking, something special is happening and we are lucky enough to be a part of it.

[annalovesfilm]

Amazing! I love it!

[icecreamejunkie]

wow this such an awesome video

you should make more

[followthefleet]

I like this video a lot. Obviously its creator loves Astaire and Roger's dancing, as do I...BUT...I must tell you, that Fred Astaire would have fits about his dance choreography broken up into fragments. His major contribution to filmed dance was to have full body shots of the dancers filmed CONTINUOUSLY in real time!

[roseytrebles]

Heheh yes, I know that; I wasn't trying to make some kind of Busy Berkeley-type refutation or improvement, any more than I'd want to suggest that the long intro to the Piccolino is better than Fred and Ginger's dance afterwards, or that Robyn's stupid Dirt Devil commercial was a good idea. It's just a fan video.

[followthefleet]

Great...We both love the films of Fred and Ginger. It's great to meet people who have learned about their work in greater depth. BTW, I wish there was more information about Fred's creative process with Pan, Born, ginger And the composers. As was their style, neither Fred or Ginger were very talkative about this....They just produced excellence, and shut up afterwards!

[roseytrebles]

Oh, I know! I love that picture of Fred and Hermes Pan where they're drawing that fake diagram of some dance of Fred's. What I wouldn't give to have been a fly on the wall for some of those rehearsals...so totally different from today, when every backstage moment that has ever existed is somehow filmed and documented. I wish someone had done the same for one of Fred and Adele's shows.

[followthefleet]

I have a picture of Hermes Pan with Ginger with a fake diagram on the floor! We have to look at it as their way to have fun....in the land of make-believe. It was untrue, but what was true, was all the hard work each of them put into the dances. Hard work and fun..the prescription for success, only if you add a healthy dobb of pure talent!

[roseytrebles]

Thanks everybody! I'm so glad you're are enjoying it.

[sophiapitrillo]

You just rocked my world! I can have my Cake and Fred and Ginger too!

[Reflects661]

Excellent! It goes splendidly together, what a piece of work. Thanks for sharing! Fred and Ginger are the tops!

[hebe21]

Just because I love the originals doesn't mean I can't appreciate such a loving and well-made tribute like this. Great job! :)

[Aries920607]

They are soooo cute together. I think it was very tasteful and classy.

[John4June]

Prime1lover is an idiot! Those kind of ridiculous film fanatics really piss me off! We all love Fred and Ginger just as much as you as much as you think you're this superior fan! Just because we have a little fun with our love while you sit around being sour and looking down on all us poor youtubers! This is what youtube is for and your way is what DVD players are for!

This video is awesome, don't listen to idiots!

[ohatime2dance]

i soo agree with you, what that user said was really disrespectful this is video is good!!

[Blueskywatcher]

Remember, Ginger did everything Fred did but backwards and in heels.

[roseytrebles]

That's true, but I still think that Fred was by far the superior dancer. He and Hermes Pan, besides doing the choreography, taught Ginger everything she knew and were able to smooth over what she couldn't do--and if you look at Fred's solos alone you can see that, as the 1933 Variety article put it, "Fred Astaire starts dancing where the others stop hoofing." Not to pick a fight or anything!--Ginger was undeniably immenseley talented, and the most gifted parter, I think, that he ever had.

[Blueskywatcher]

So because they taught Ginger does that make it any less good?

[roseytrebles]

Oh no no, of course not; I just mean that, even on a purely literal level, Fred did more than Ginger.

[sneakysnoo11]

I agree with both of you, coz they each had what the other needed. Fred, the more talented dancer was (in my opinion) a fairly average actor except when he acted through dance/song, GInger was an awesome actor, and made dancing with him look like the most thrilling thing, a long with being a good dancer.

Just a note though, Ginger did have some small input in to the dance, for example, the series of lifts at the end of the Yam in carefree were her idea! Adapted by Pan and Fred and used!!

[sneakysnoo11]

just a note to say this is a reply to the debate over who was more talented on the first page!!

[YNGR]

Hi, sneakysnoo - Though I agree that we don't often think of Astaire as an actor outside the dances (and he often was more of a comedian in non-musical scenes), his acting is subtle and very good in some moments from his musical films. There are impressive moments in SWING TIME (just before "Never Gonna Dance"); CAREFREE (when he tells her that all patients fall in love with their doctors), THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE, and THE SKY'S THE LIMIT. It's so natural it's often invisible.

[sneakysnoo11]

Yes, I do think you're right, when he plays a character he understands and can relate to, his acting is good, and certainly it improves in the later films, I wonder perhaps if Ginger helped his acting, just as he made her the dancer she became! However I still think that in roles he had less in common with particularly FOLLOW THE FLEET, his mannerisms are limited. So yes, Fred had his acting moments, but I still think that on the whole, they work due to compensating skills in each other. :)

[ZiziStreet]

funny idea, excellent editing - I quite like it (after taking a chill pill)

[roseytrebles]

Thanks!

[irishrule53]

I LOVE this video. Fred and Ginger are the TOPS. Their genius is timeless. The choice of "Love You Madly" was brilliant. It makes for a fantastic video and yet it allows Fred and Ginger's dancing to stand on it's own. Please make more videos. Thanks,

PS. The guy who complained is an idiot. He has no idea what he's talking about.

[novanelness]

hey, prime1mover, chill out, man. fred and ginger are all about the love--and if you'd burn the original films, for any reason, at all, you're not my friend.

i think this is awesome. so yeah. suck it, yo.

[roseytrebles]

Hahah, thanks for being awesome. :) I'm glad you liked the video.

[prime1mover]

I'd rather burn the original films than desecrate them by replacing the original music and destroying the flow of the original choreography. Do you also spray paint original oil paintings in your spare time?

[roseytrebles]

Wow, ouch!

[Phishouttawatta]

don't be hurt by the comment. Love You Madly obviously isn't a song in any astaire and rogers film so why would prime think it would be anything else. He should just stick to the original films in his VCR and not go searching for stuff on youtube where he's bound to run into mixes (and take a freakin chill pill). It was romantic and totally cute. i liked it a lot ^_^

[roseytrebles]

Hey, thanks--that's kind of what I thought too so I'm glad I'm not crazy. :) It's really nice of you to say and I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[filmfreak491]

Very kool beginning. Liked the clips you used. Well done.

[roseytrebles]

Thank you! I really enjoy your "Breakaway" video; I've had it on my favorites for a while now.

[filmfreak491]

Yeah i also did a tribute to Fred and Ginger. They're fun to do.

[mithol]

They were gorgeous. I wish there was still talent around like this.

[roseytrebles]

Sigh...so do I.

[ladycblack1]

Fab video

[unbrokendream]

I loved it! Nice choice of song. :D