It was the Great Depression and movie goers flocked to theaters just to get a few hours of escapism, which is exactly what they got on December 29, 1933 with what turned out to be the very beginning ...

Like a long-awaited gift from movie heaven, five of the 10 films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together arrive on DVD this week for the first time. They are nicely remastered, though not ...

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, ...

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear International has closed a raft of international deals on EFM titles Longlegs and Fred & Ginger, we can reveal. The two projects were among the most in-demand with foreign buyers ...

Ginger later said she wasn't aware it was happening, and she was spinning so fast she couldn't see that Fred winced and ducked, and kept going. On subsequent takes, they tried to figure out ways to ...

Ginger Rogers, the late legendary actor and dancer from Hollywood's golden age, would have turned 112 this week. And that seems like a fine reason to let critic Bob Mondello wax nostalgic about Rogers ...

LOS ANGELES -- It's not your typical night at the movies: Fred and Ginger dance in the aisle, King Kong hangs out with Frankenstein and E.T. phones home in the lobby. In a mural overlooking the drab ...