Astaire and Rogers by Edward Gallafent Columbia University Press, 256 pp., $24.95 THE PLACE of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the American dance couple, perhaps even the American romantic couple, ...

The young couple looks smooth, if not polished yet, as they waltz across the shiny wooden floor of the Femina Fitness & Dance studio in Sioux City. Femina's storied dance floor which, when known as ...

Couple relaxing on a bench watching something on their mobile device (Cox photo). Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only—as the adage goes—she did it backwards and in high heels. Each of ...

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made nine musicals together at RKO studio, the first in 1933, the last in 1939 — and then one more in 1949. In the process, they revolutionized the Hollywood musical.

The American director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall won an Olivier award and eternal gratitude for her superb, uplifting staging of Anything Goes at the Barbican across the pandemic-tainted ...

In Italy, dancers Pippo (Marcello Mastroianni) and Amelia (Giulietta Masina) -- once famous for their impersonations of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers -- reunite to perform one last ballroom routine ...