As well as being a dancer, Ginger Rogers was a talented comedy actor—as she shows in this excellent 1938 comedy playing opposite James Stewart.
Month: May 2020
Folk in the front room
Folk on Foot’s two Front Room Festivals are a snapshot of the state of British folk music — and have created a kind of ‘lockdown aesthetic’.
Gene Kelly: dancing for himself
The difference between Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire: Kelly’s big set-pieces involved him dancing for himself. Some thoughts on watching Cover Girl (1944).