Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Follow the Fleet (1936, dir. Mark Sandrich) 

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Follow the Fleet (1936, dir. Mark Sandrich) 

Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1935 dir. Mark Sandrich)

Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1935 dir. Mark Sandrich)

Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire, 1980s 

Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire, 1980s 

Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1935 dir. Mark Sandrich) 

Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire in Top Hat (1935 dir. Mark Sandrich) 

Ginger Rogers - We’re in the Money (via Gold Diggers of 1933 OST)

At a certain point, Rogers seems to be singing gibberish - she is actually singing in Pig Latin. She had sung the song so many times during rehearsal that she began singing it in Pig Latin to relieve the monotony & amuse herself. Director Mervyn LeRoy liked the sound of it, so he had Rogers sing the last part of the song that way.

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Top Hat (1935, dir. Mark Sandrich) (via)

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Top Hat (1935, dir. Mark Sandrich) (via)