Fred astaire-Tap away and away........

[walboi]

Last night I played a dvd from Fred Astaire, en Ginger Rogers, namely "The Barkleys of Broadway". Boy did I enjoy myself. Dancing numbers like Fred's shoes with wings on, takes your breath away. I always enjoy dance-musical films especcially the ones with Astaire and his many partners. Gene Kelly off cause and so many others. Out of this came my curiosity to find out about classical ballet.

They released only a few well mastered dvd's to this date, mostly the latest ones, like the beautiful "The Bandwagon" . And I saw a few older films released on obscure labels that I threw away in the bin, the quality was that there was no quality. Anyway some little bird told me that they are going to realease all the older films with Ginger Rogers in black and white remaster them and sell them in a box. Could that be true? Anyone, let me know please!

And off cause I am also interrested what your favourite dancing movie is, I for one am very much taken by The Girl in the red shoes, which I saw a few days ago, and made me sit upright, the one from Pressburger. Have to find the details of this film. I knew it was on the market but I did not see it yet in the shop.

Health and Happiness

As ever

Walboi

[dirac]

walboi, we do have a relatively recent Other Arts thread (link here) that discusses Astaire and Rogers and the new DVD releases, so I'm going to close this topic and copy your comments to the old thread. Thanks!