ASTAIRE AND ROGERS GO “CAREFREE” TO BERLIN’S MUSIC
The endeavours of a psychiatrist to play Cupid and marry off his best friend to a noted actress is the theme of “Carefree,” RKO Radio’s latest musical romance with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the stellar roles. However, the scheme runs into unforeseen difficulties when the patient falls in love with her doctor instead of with the man she’s supposed to marry. Hilarious complications involving hypnotism, a skeet-shotting match, legal injunctions, breaking into a church and the wrecking of a nation-wide radio programme, are among the comedy highlights of the AstaireRogers vehicle. Woven throughout the story are a group of tuneful melodies by Irving Berlin, and four notable dance routines— Astaire’s solo golf dance, a fantastic dream dance, the romantic “change patrners” number, and the “Yam,” the new popular ballroom step that is expected to replace most of the current dances. Ralph Bellamy heads the brilliant supporting cast, which includes the Broadway favourite, Luella Gear; Clarence Kolb, Franklin Pangborn and the new “find/* Jack Carson. Mark Sandrich directed the Pandro S. Berman production.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 December 1938, Page 6
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182ASTAIRE AND ROGERS GO “CAREFREE” TO BERLIN’S MUSIC Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 December 1938, Page 6
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