Erwin Gelsey
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Songs include "The Carioca," "Orchids in the Moonlight," and the title song. Notable for a brilliantly photographed finale with chorus girls on the wings of flying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley production and moved toward a closer integration of musical and...
2) Swing time
Publisher
Turner Home Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on Broadway. Even falling in love has its hardships, as Powell's high-brow Eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. More complications set in when his brother falls for Keeler's wise-cracking roommate.
4) Cover girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dancer in a Brooklyn night club catches the eye of a magazine publisher, who sees in her potential as a future cover girl.
5) Swing time
Series
Criterion collection volume 979
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
"In this irresistible musical, the legendary dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are at the pinnacle of their art as a feckless gambler and the shrewd dancing instructor in whom he more than meets his match. Director George Stevens laces their romance with humor and clears the floor for the movie's showstopping dance scenes, in which Astaire and Rogers take seemingly effortless flight in a virtuosic fusion of ballroom and tap styles. Buoyed...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (594 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thrill of a romance: A war hero takes swimming lessons in order to woo the instructor. Fiesta: A woman disguises herself as a matador to fill in for her brother. This time for keeps: A veteran falls in love with a swimmer. Pagan love song: A love story set on Tahiti. Million dollar mermaid: Dramatizes the life of Annette Kellerman. Easy to love: A water skier falls in love with her agent.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (398 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roberta: Fred and Ginger sing I Won't Dance, but their feet prove otherwise in a tale of Parisian high fashion and hijinks.
Follow the fleet: Astaire plays a hoofer-turned-sailor. Rogers is his ex-partner, now convoying the Navy around for 10 cents a dance. One day the fleet returns to home port and the partnership is renewed--at least for one more show.
Follow the fleet: A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on...
