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  • Can anyone please tell me what film is this scene from?

  • @05carsm It's from the movie "The Gay Divorcee"

  • @suzylyn63 Thank you!

  • @05carsm You're welcome! :)

  • I love the part where she motions as if she is slapping him, and he stumbles backwards; even THAT is graceful!

  • The Gay Divorcee!

  • What movie is this from?

  • Yes Wow

  • ..he hates the cloth ..lol i can understand :)

  • SWAG

  • For anyone who wants to introduce this song to someone, please don't start with the Sergio Mendes version because it will make it difficult for them to like any other version. I swear, that's what happened to me.

  • Bellisimo! 

  • Midnight in Paris<3

  • Cole Porter was a genius in his song writting ability. I love all of his music.

  • I gotta learn to sing. This is what chicks dig.

  • I'd so watching if Hollywood started producing new musicals and films with old-style music and dancing. Too bad they'd obviously include a bunch of teenagers, rock/pop/dubstep/whatever synthesizer crap and ridiculous choreographs.

  • Dance, Fred, dance....dance for me...

  • Youngsters please take note - THIS is dancing.

    @whozafeard:

    Water? Fred could most probably have danced on thin air. Good job he was never a space-walking astronaut ,or we'd never have got him down again!

  • senza parole...stanno volando

    

  • Absolutely beautiful! <3

    I love Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers so much, they're so very inspiring! <3 <3

  • This is classic natural dancing by two great dancers outshining any of todays" Dancing with the Stars " performers that appear to be more dancing calisthenics than actual ball room dancing.

  • Fred & Ginger = Elegance & Class. 

  • 18 people don't have a clue

  • The music had such class in those days; especially Cole Porter!

    I try to write tunes in that old style. Check out my efforts on my page here if you feel inclined.

  • seems like they are on a cruize ship.....maybe dancing in water is what they are doing... in a figure of speech : ).....

  • I live in Cole Porter's hometown of Peru, Indiana, and every time I drive by his house, I feel so proud that this town, at one time in history, had something going for it.

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  • Astaire could probably dance on water.

  • @whozafeard

    More than likely. After all...he danced on air.

  • This is the definition of CLASS .

    I can't stop watching them , and by the way envying the way they moved.

  • Love, love, love Fred & Ginger. They just don't make 'em like this anymore. I wish I could have danced with Fred just one time.

  • I can't stop watching this

  • Cole, Ginger and Fred are there anything better? I don’t think so. This is so romantic and beautiful.

  • 17 people need to watch Fred's awesome tap dancing moves.

  • You know it's interesting, because just the other day I watched Easter Parade also starring Fred Astaire, and there was a scene very similar to this scene! Reluctant woman, man convincing woman that it's all good, woman and man end up dancing. I liked both scenes of course, this one and the one in Easter Parade that is.

  • Thank you for this, my honey man. 

  • Millions have loved this movie team years ago on the big movie screen, now millions will love them on youtube! Where ever hearts are young and there is romance, there too will be Fred and Ginger!

  • No means no, Fred.

  • n beautiful song :)

  • Incomparable dancing duo. However, I think it´s the only team work where the man overpowers the lady and steals the show. Usually the lady attracts more attention, but Fred´s lightness, agility, perfection and pure elegance simply cannot be missed. He makes look soooooo easy, it hurts.

    Thanks for the post.

  • They really look like they are enjoying themselves. Like at 2:12 Ginger smiles at Fred and he smiles back at they look like they were just having fun! I ♥ them both xxx

  • Whauw, what a beautiful music, I'm sitting here weeping softly because of the innocence and pure, romantic appearance...and because of the wonderful oldfashioned musical arrangement. As I am a composer I think I will allow myself to use the sequense that's moving down...WHAUW !

  • they move so fluidly, it always amazes me!! They could be floating :)

  • Today when a man and woman dance in a movie, the "woman" is usually some teenage girl dressed like a slut and the dancing is almost full-on sex, all done to rap or hip hop.

  • This was when they made movies - the music the dancing - There will never be another Fred Astaire. Ginger Roger made a great partner.

  • This was when they made movies - the music the dancing - There will never be another Fred Astaire. Ginger Roger made a great partner.

  • This was when they made movies - the music the dancing - There will never be another Fred Astaire. Ginger Roger made a great partner.

  • Now I think this would work on Dancing With The Stars. I would love to see someone (good) recreate this to the music, if they would be allowed to do that.

  • such a lovely wonderfullllll dress ! i really dont understand how girls would rather go aound in nearly nothing for partys etc or just eveyday y'know?

    some class never killed anyone..

  • I LOVE Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers!! When you're watching them it's hard to take your eyes off them because when you are looking at one, the other takes your eye! Seperately and together.Breathtaking.

  • i love the music and the movies from this era they dont make movies or actors actresses like this anymore

  • whoever say what, it is my one of the most out of everymusic category.

  • why is he singing so fast?

  • Wow. He is little and skinny and balding, yet he is the personification of sexual desire, romance and masculine dominance. So brilliant. Never been anyone like Astaire since Astaire. One of a kind. Of course, Porter's music and Roger's elegance and beauty don't hurt, either!

  • Gosh, why all the vitriol? Can't we just enjoy this timeless piece? Those of you who don't enjoy it, be civil. Those of us who do enjoy it need not attack other music forms. What we do know is this: The music of Cole Porter has been around a long time and will be around a long time. The dance team of Astaire and Rogers represents class for those of us who are of a "certain age."

  • I wish I had a time machine...

  • Alright... Who has my Fred?

  • XsweetriceX 8 why do you think I am being sarcastic??.....didnt get that!!!

    Are you another rapper or lady gaga´s fan? My message is for those 14 idiots that didnt like Fred and Ginger presentation. The scene will stay forever and forever....now ladies gagas gagas, amies, madonnas, beyonces, shakiras, etc, etc. will last till next sniff!!!

    ies

  • So wundervoll!

  • Oh Fred <3

  • This is what love is all about. Attraction, hate, distrust and everything in between. And whether it is sung too fast or not, I don't care. It simply is one of the very best dance scenes ever filmed. Every and I mean every later dancer or lady dancer can only bow to these two. They were, and still are, the very very best. I've never seen a couple that had such almost mental bond as Astaire and Rogers.

  • Astaire always sang it too fast, lacked timing, he was impatient, bet he was a premature ejaculator :) Frank, et al, savoured each note, like slowly making love.

  • Hey sniggafy..LOLOL.....are you a rapper??? Did I bother you with my comment??

    I am really happy for that.

  • @masefu0 no and no. i only said YOU suck. hey masefu0...are you a snigga?

  • It's not just the fact that Ginger was beautiful, it's the fact that she was talented. A triple threat-dance, sing and act. And as far as Fred Astaire-a legend and one of a kind that can't be replaced

  • This is one of thee most disturbing songs and performances ever! Like, and ill tell you why

  • @jeannielovesrick62 It's just you.

    

  • How can anyone like crap like Step Up over this?

  • No puedo evitar suspirar al verlos. Gracias Ginger Rogers and Fred Asteir por este legado. Paloma I.

  • This is sensuality at its most potent.

  • Can sing, and dance a little????

  • @jeannielovesrick62 Only with less than half the class. And my wife can make a dress like that no foolin'!

  • This dance is light-years beyond anything you'll see on Dancing With The Stars"

    Incidentally, I love the delicious little joke at the end of the dance where he offers her a cigarette meaning let's have a cigarette after a satisfying dance the way others have a smoke after good sex.

  • @eyesk8er There's a lot of Eros in R and A

  • Ginger did everything Fred did, only backwards and in heels. And they both made it all look so effortless. :)

  • uhm, the song is called Night and Day not Day and Night ; )

  • I have this song in a music box! I LOVE THESE TWO!!

  • To answer a question that was asked, yes they recorded the orchestra and vocal live. This was very common in Fred and Ginger's early movies. It is also a wonderful thing to see and hear. In my opinion it adds a lot to the movie. It also means Fred and the orchestra were very talented to be able to do this. You won't see this today. Everything now is in prerecorded sound and video bites, for obvious reasons.

  • @erniemanguy I remember reading once that when Fred was just starting out, one of the comments from an early audition he went to was "Can't sing, can't act. Can dance a little." Priceless! :)

  • @erniemanguy I am interested to know where this info is - I always assumed just about everything except for the first Vitaphone films had a pre-recorded music (orchestra and voice) soundtrack. I know by the mid 30's it was pretty much standard. Jack Haley remembers when he, Shirley Temple and Alice Faye had to match the pre-recorded tap sounds for their dance routine in Poor Little Rich Girl in 1936, so they were also prerecording taps at that time as well apparently.

  • i have watched the movie that this song was in over and over ..loved it

  • @jeannielovesrick62 she does look quite a bit like her, especially from the side

  • I may be wrong - didn't they film this with live singing and orchestra ???

  • @jeannielovesrick62 ,its just you-(no only joking)-she sort of does look a bit like Christina Aguilera)

  • STYLE!! Enough.

  • Nobody can wears the White Tie like Fred.

  • I'd sell my soul to dance like him just one nite...

  • @foamulator You don't have to sell your soul. You just have to work 15 hours a day for 10 years and you'll get pretty close to Fred. He was a kind of guy who could stand in front of a mirror for half a day and practive just one thing -- how to put a hand into a pocket. He wasn't born a genius -- he made himself a genius, and asked the same from everyone else. Poor Ginger had to wake up at 4 am and go to the studio to practice with Fred till she had blood on her feet.

  • Consumate grace and elegance, danced to exquisite music

  • 14 people didnt like it!!! Yeah, funk and rap is much better.....Porter, Berlin, Gershwin, Kander and Ebb are a bunch of lousy composers.....Problem is that they are going to stay for centuries.

  • @masefu0 you suck

    

  • @masefu0 are you being sarcastic?

  • @masefu0 They just have different tastes. Jesus...you act all high and mighty and yet someone doesn't like something you like and you rush to defend it. You're no different than everyone else. Everyone likes different things.

  • @masefu0

    nothing to do...sad that's true! i love cole porter... like you... and i always will!!

  • @vitorinovitor

    Thats right Vitor...fortunally there will be people like you and me to praise the beauty in such world of mediocrity. Regards

  • @masefu0 So you are not into that whole different taste thing? Wouldn't it be boring if everyone liked exactly the same stuff?

  • @NUMUESTIKK

    Comparing to those 14 idiots that didnt like I have a terrific good taste...if everybody like the goods things this world would be much better.....but when things like Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Justin Bieber, etc. are success I just cant stay quiet..... Read the majority of the comments about this scene.....they speak by myself...and fortunally there is You Tube to preserve those beautiful moments in posts placed by people with good taste.

  • Very nice.

  • Man just makes you wish guys still acted like this back when times were simpler when it came to romance ~!~!

  • i"m watching this on tv now...

  • Two people at the top of their game and showing us what real talent is. They are awe-inspiring.

  • @jeannielovesrick62 OMG FINALLY SOMEONE HAS SAID IT LOL

    IVE BEEN THINKING THAT FOR AGES LOL X

  • OMG 0:17 Ginger's eyes sent me to heaven ;~; It's hard for Fred to NOT get in the romantic mood when his lady looks at him like that.

  • Cuanta Finura, estilo y delicadeza!! Por Dios!!

    , Nunca pasara de moda.

  • non mi piace per niente :-(

  • She has a very beautiful dress. Too bad they don't make 'em like that anymore.

  • @Vivexen She is a gorgeous woman. Too bad they don't make them like her anymore.

  • @Vivexen I always wanted her dresses :)

  • @Vivexen That's because of Lady Gaga.. 

  • @Vivexen If you watch carefully, you can see the feathers coming off in scads. Also, those are moa feathers, a protected species now.

  • @Vivexen You got that right. those clothes were classy the stuff they wear now.....:(((

  • Fabulous video........ Terry

  • I simply love Fred Astaire, my boyfriend and I swing dance and lindy hop so we look at videos to see what we can add to our dancing. Thank you for posting this!

  • I do love this, but I can't help but feel he sings the song a little fast.

  • Forgive me for sounding cliche, but they don't make them like this anyomore!!!!!!!!

  • I love this soo much i'm a 15 year old from a bad area in London and these videos really help me through the day.I wish I could dance one day like them,it really be a dream come true

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  • @MissMonLondon

    Lovely to hear that a 15 year old can enjoy this, try to sign up for a dance class and who knows one day you

    could be the new Ginger. I saw her live 40 years ago in "Mame" she was quite old then but still a star in the true sense of the word. Todays stars are mainly talentless striptease artists, all their routines are based on sex and showing off their silicon frontages.

  • @135yearswaiting I really hope one day i'll dance like her and i agree with your opinion of today's 'talent'.

    : )

  • Fred, Ginger, Cole, (and who ever designed that marvelous marabou dress)---who could ask for anything more?

  • Or Night and Day even!! but thanks anyway-if you ever try to dance like them you realise just how brilliant they are.....

  • They dance as one person similar to one who plays an instrument as well as they dance.

  • So lovely, and so iconic. Nobody today realizes how many cuts and retakes were necessary because that damned dress shed marbou (stork) feather fluff. It clung to Fred's tuxedo, floated around the set anytime Ginger moved, and was generally a huge nuisance. But Ginger Rogers loved the dress, argued for it, and got her way.

  • Those were the days! You don't see this kind of performance anymore. Rogers and Astaire were the best. Thanks for sharing:-)

  • Timelessly delightful! Never to be surpassed, or even equalled!

  • They are a pair of angels...

  • Thanks for sharing this. I love Fred and Ginger. I identify Cole Porter best with Fred Astaire. My fiancee prefers the jazz versions (eg Fitzgerald , Armstrong) but it's just so glorious the way Fred Astaire sings them. Bravo Ginger and Fred!

    BTW that dress is so ethereal I love it!

  • Cole Porter wrote songs and melodys for Fred Astaires voice. They where buddies.

  • Fabuloso nada parecido nunca mais...compositor e ator em uma simbiose divina...

  • still magic. still unbeatable .. even since decades.. and will live for decades

  • Porter's best song - add Astaire and Rogers and you get MAGIC

  • Wonderfull, they are imortals :) i love them soo much and this period also, elegance, charm, education and respect always present! thanks for posting it

  • Wonderfull, they are imortals :) i love them soo much and this period also, elegance, charm, education and respect always present! thanks for posting it

  • FRED AND GINGER, TWO CLASS ACTS.  colindaleradiosutch

  • So common in those days, Talent, entertainment......corny? is that bad?

    Cole Porter was top of his profession, so was Fred Astaire and Ginger as well. When I was a kid, I hated that kind of Movie but now I've evolved to enjoy talent, thank God.

  • What an amazing song....Cole Porter was a musical genious...! De-light-full!

  • My goodness. Thanks to 10ordero for this clip. Can anything beat Cole Porter, Ginger Rodgers and Fred Astaire?

  • I only wish we had actors and actresses of such style grace and talent today!

  • FRED AND GINGER - SIMPLY SENSATIONAL..

    Thank you.............

  • GOT HER!! LOL :))

  • In-friggin-credible.

  • Beautiful

  • oh romance!!!

  • This clip illustrates something that has gone form our culture or, at least, in our popular entertainment: Classic style and sophistication.

  • You can see how Bollywood took their style

  • The most beautiful and sensuous dance in movie history. Thank you.

  • Ginger must have been THE most beautiful woman in the thirties. I know that May West and Jean Harlow had a lot more sex appeal and many others probably too, but those long legs and that marvelous slender figure. And the way she wears those beautiful dresses. Every fashion designer today would be prepared to kill for a model like her.

  • That dress -- wow! I wish I had that dress.

  • When I was a girl, this seemed like the most romantic scene ever. 20 years later, can't say that's changed much! Thanks so much for posting!

  • I love this: I'm mad at you but let's dance away our troubles, lol.

  • Oh gee, this takes me back! Forget about talent-no talent, it's a time that won't come around again! Thanks for posting this! =)

  • What I would give to bring back these days once again. I also wish parents and schools would show these videos to children at very young ages. They need to know what real talent is so they have reference points to judge other talent by. People's expectations have dropped to alarming levels in the past few decades. Ir will only get worse if we don't start educating the younger generations now. It's time to raise the bar and expect more than we are getting. YouTube is a good place to start.

  • @mdshullaw52

    How beautifully you have put your point across - I agree withyou whole heartedly, but fear that things have declined so much that we will never recover what we once had......

  • i wish we could revive the "song and dancemen" industry. (in other words i wish we could revive actual talent in the entertainment industry)

  • I love such songs. I guess it is the melodie and the insruments and the....oh hell, it the whole thing, that makes it so speacial! :)

    Fred Astaire and Geene Kelly were two amazing dancers :)

  • Wonderful! Thanks for the upload...

  • @maddogj7 You must be kidding. Barishnikov referred to Astaire as an artist of inestimable worth. Your comment says little about Astaire and volumes about you

  • @fairb38 yes ofcourse your correct and i was being foolish to post a coment like that about astaire but Night and Day is all about the legendary composing of porter and not the dancing of fred .i also like hiphop metal and classical and this porter track hits the right spot .jj7

  • If Fred Estaire sang Night and Day to me I'd simply melt.

  • @jeannielovesrick62 Christina Aguilera wishes she could look exactly like Ginger Rogers.

  • I actually wish my generation was more respecting of this stuff.... I love it!

    

  • @jeannielovesrick62 Totally! hahahaha

  • Our grand-mothers were so distinguished compare to the young people of today...It's so sad!

  • Wonderful! Oh how i miss seeing beauties like this!

  • The best entertainer and even more brilliant with Rogers. The man sang like he danced and his dancing was flawless.

  • Without doubt fred Astaire was brilliant all the others tried to copy him but he was unique. He made it look so easy.

  • THANKS for posting this - they were so elegant. I love how he "chases" her at the beginning and all the spins at the end. They are just heavenly!

  • So elegant and fun! Love it! Thanks so much for posting and sharing!

  • Like the video and the song...(too bad Cole Porter was a flaming queer though...rather spoils it)

  • @libsemik Most creative geniuses are gay, why should that matter? You either appreciate their art or you don't, it has nothing to do with their sexual orientation, the art world would be bankrupt if you eliminated all the great art, music, literature, fashion, architecture, interior design, movies and other arts created by "gay" people.

  • @libsemik

    What does his sexual orientation have to do wi