Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - "Pick Yourself Up" Tap Dance from Swing Time (1936)

[strippingcthulhu]

AND THEY JUST LEAVE

[J1eanCag]

"No one could teach you to dance in a million year! Take my advice and save your money!" Oh Ginger...how wrong you are. I do believe this is the only time when the old joke about the backwards and in heels could be true. The awesome little jazz dance from Barkely's doesn't count, those aren't high heels.

[AuburnWahine]

To bad u did not show the next scene with the old couple trying to dance still cracks me up lol

[maelstrom2003]

Speechless :O

[dholland131]

Love this scene, love this movie! They were and always will be the greatest :)

[AuburnWahine]

@dholland131 me too love this man. 20th century had so much talent it is ludacris.

[SatchmoSings]

As much as I love the very luscious Ms. Rogers, when they start to dance, my eye always gravitates towards Astaire; he was, after all, the better dancer.

[BFBCFTW]

@SatchmoSings Everything he did, Ginger did backwards in high heels ;)

[SatchmoSings]

@BFBCFTW lol, That's been said many, many times and I don't doubt its validity, not for an instant.

I love Fred and Ginger they were as great a pairing as Hollywood ever came up with but ultimately, Astaire is the better dance.

In some ways their re-union film at MGM, "Barkleys of Broadway" may have been their best pairing at least in terms of Rogers dancing . . .that and her formerly ingenue body-self had filled out to a real woman's body. (Sorry, I just couldn't help myself there!)

[mikakrstic]

what a genius, it looks like he is flying

[TheSnowvixen]

Fred Astaire, not Frank Sinatra!

[eileen19641]

I love old frank sinatra dancing movies. way cool



[mostungood]

Step for step Ginger kept up with Fred, and she did it in heels.

[SatchmoSings]

@mostungood She did it in heels AND she also did it backwards!

[hollowaymccartney]

forever the perfect dance partners :)

[followthefleet1]

Top notch dancing. It's a timeless lesson in dancing together. They make it look easy, but in truth, it took hours of creation, rehearsal, and then performance, to produce a result that looks so completely spontaneous. It looks spontaneous, but it was anything but! In Ginger Rogers, Fred found a partner who was willing and able, to put in the necessary hard work. Fred, Mr. Perfectionist himself, called Ginger: "The hardest working gal I ever knew.". They were both tough minded about their art.

[KatarinaSu]

Still amazing after all these years.

[SonjaHenieFilmFan]

One of the best Tunes, songs, and dances ever!!!

[wvtenderfool]

Wonderful ... 

[JackGibbonsHQ]

One of my very favourite Fred Astaire sequences!