Dick Powell Ginger Rogers "I'll String Along With You"

Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers sing "I'll String Along With You" in the movie "Twenty Million Sweethearts" (1934). In the beginning of the song Dick Powell's character suffers from a case of the nerves.....

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Dick
• Powell
• Ginger
• Rogers
• I'll
• String
• Along
• With
• You
• Twenty
• Million
• Sweethearts

[kerimac100]

I remember in the days before we had TV in New Zealand, staring at the radio as we listened to something (?) starring Dick Powell as Richard Diamond.......

[KerrieGrant]

@kerimac100 That's really cool. I didn't know he did radio. I'm going to see if I can hunt down some episodes. Thanks for sharing. What a voice he has!!!

[keleigh97]

Ginger comes to the rescue once again. She is marvelous. Her dress is lovely. I always wanted to be able to wear clothes as well as Ginger does but I could never pull it off. She new how to wear clothes to their and hers best advantage. Thanks for the video.

[KerrieGrant]

@keleigh97 I totally agree. Arlene Croce said it exactly right when she wrote Ginger had "one of the most elegant dancer's bodies imaginable." Everything looked good on her, and she wore her clothes with such style. And she looked so good in hats. And was so photogenic. And was so talented. Quite a lady!!!

[beeje]

I love Gingers dress! The collar is great!

PS - Can you tell what my gender is? ;)

[KerrieGrant]

Hmmm!  That's an easy one. Though the "collar" is cut quite low, I've had the advantage of seeing a photo of new shoes attached to non-cankled power-gams, if you know what I mean.

[funkydafunker]

Magical.Thanks

[Gchord86]

American culture at its finest

[candw87]

@KerrieGrant Explique Je ne compris pas

[pinkieldred]

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one..? Then I come into U tube and find there are so many like me ....listening to the miracles! Look at the comments here ...yes there still are many of us that appreciate ..."The Miracles"

[VIVICANAL4]

IT´S A DREAM TO SEE THE WODERFUL STARS AND HEAR THE MAGIC SONG ONCE AGAIN IN MY LIFE, REMEMBERING WHEN LIFE WAS HAPPY. THANK YOU MY FRIEND.

[geoff189d]

Thanks for posting this. Nice to see Grant Mitchell, a character actor who never disappoints. Who can forget his small but memorable role in Dinner at Eight. Great song - another Warren/Dubin hit!

[windstorm1000]

Powell had such a fine tenor voice and cheeky/modern screen presence--being boyishly good looking didn't hurt!!. He was a song and dance man par exellence in the '30's before doing a 360 with his career by playing private dick Richard Marlowe in the '40's, then became a movie/tv producer in the 50's. Not that many actors had a versatile career like that.

[bfindon1]

This is a film clip from "Twenty Million Sweethearts" made in 1934. It's played on Turner Classic Movie channel every few years. bfindon

[Georgewos]

As we learned later after she started dancing with Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers was a much better dancer than Ruby Keeler. The 2 best female tap dancers in movies were Eleanor Powell and Ann Miller.

[Georgewos]

After Dick Powell left Warners Bros he started making movies for RKO. Those pictures were called film noir after the French type of films.This was in the mid 1940's. He played the detective Philip Marlowe among others.Yes he also was on radio as Richard Diamond. Later he started directing movies for TV. A complete reversal from his musical film days.

[frissy61]

@kerimac100 - How fortunate you were to have that radio experience - letting your imagination fly with the help of such wonderful writing (by Blake Edwards) and acting by Dick Powell - love him!