Carefree 1938  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear, Jack Carson, Clarence Kolb, Franklin Pangborn, Walter Kingsford, Hattie McDaniel, Tom Tully
Psychiatrist Dr. Tony Flagg (Fred Astaire) falls in love with his patient, Amanda Cooper (Ginger Rogers). There is just one problem: Amanda is the fiancee of Flagg's friend, Stephen Arden (Ralph Bellamy).
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Follow the Fleet 1936  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn, Harry Beresford, Russell Hicks, Brooks Benedict, Lucille Ball, Ray Mayer
Professional dance partners Bake Baker (Fred Astaire) and Sherry Martin (Ginger Rogers) are separated when Baker joins the Navy. Now, they meet and stage a show for charity during Baker's shore leave.
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 The Gay Divorcee 1934 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, William Austin, Betty Grable, E.E. Clive, Paul Porcasi, Lillian Miles, Charles Coleman, George Davis, Charlie Hall
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, as Guy and Mimi, run into each other at a resort where Mimi is awaiting her divorce. Mimi mistakes Guy for the man (Erik Rhodes) who her aunt (Alice Brady) has hired to have a tryst with Mimi and, thus, provide the grounds for her divorce. Complications ensue when Guy is attracted to Mimi, but she, because of the mix-up, does not treat him well. By story's end, all ends happily. The dances to "The Continental" and "Night and Day" are delightfully performed in this film. "The Continental" won the Academy Award for Best Song, the first year that the award was given for this category. Nominations were also received for four other awards, including Best Picture.
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Here Come the Waves 1944 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran, Catherine Craig, Noel Neill, Anabel Shaw, Mae Clarke, Minor Watson, Yvonne De Carlo
"Ac-cent-u-ate the Positive" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in this delightful musical about Johnny Cabot (Bing Crosby) courting twins Susie and Rosemary (Betty Hutton plays both).
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Holiday Inn 1942 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abel, Virginia Dale, Louise Beavers, John Gallaudet, James Bell, Irving Bacon, Marek Winheim, John Gallaudet, Shelby Bacon
This musical features Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire as two performers who try to make a go of a country inn. The love triangle includes Lovely Linda (Marjorie Reynolds), but it's the great Irving Berlin musical score that makes this a classic film. "White Christmas" was introduced in this film and won an Oscar for Best Song.
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 Shall We Dance? 1937 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan, Ketti Gallian, Ben Alexander, Mantan Moreland, Ann Shoemaker, J.M. Kerrigan
While crossing the Atlantic by steamer, a Russian ballet dancer (Fred Astaire) and an American ballroom dancer (Ginger Rogers) meet and pretend to be husband and wife. George and Ira Gershwin songs in this film are great and include "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," "They All Laughed," and "They Can't Take That Away from Me."
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Skylark 1941 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel, Grant Mitchell, Ernest Cossart, Mona Barrie, Fritz Feld, Irving Bacon
Lydia (Claudette Colbert) feels she has been neglected during her five years of marriage to businessman Tony Kenyon (Ray Milland) and is tempted into an affair with Tim Blake (Brian Aherne).
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So Proudly We Hail! 1943  N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves, Barbara Britton, Walter Abel, Sonny Tufts, Bill Goodwin, Mary Treen, John Litel
In this somewhat dated, but still enjoyable, film Army nurses serve on Bataan treating the wounded soldiers during World War II. Paulette Goddard was nominated for an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress).
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 Top Hat 1935  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Lucille Ball, Donald Meek, Leonard Mudie, Florence Roberts, Dennis O'Keefe, Edgar Norton, Tom Ricketts, Leonard Mudie
This is the "best of the best" of Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals in which they perform their exquisite dance, "Cheek to Cheek." American entertainer Jerry Travers (Astaire) and wealthy Dale Tremont (Rogers) meet and fall in love in London, but problems enter the scene when Dale thinks that Jerry is her best friend Madge's (Helen Broderick) new husband. Actually, Madge's new husband is Jerry's business manager Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). Will Dale's case of mistaken identity be cleared up in time for Dale and Jerry to live happily ever after? The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.
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A Woman Rebels 1936 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Allan, Lucile Watson, Van Heflin, David Manners, Doris Dudley, Eily Malyon, Margaret Seddon
Pamela Thistlewait (Katharine Hepburn) is a 19th-century feminist who overcomes the fact that she is an unwed mother and fights for women's rights.
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| 1. Carefree (1938)
2. Follow the Fleet (1936)
3. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
4. Here Come the Waves (1944)
5. Holiday Inn (1942)
6. I Love a Soldier (1944)
7. Shall We Dance? (1937)
8. Skylark (1941)
9. So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
10. Top Hat (1935)
11. A Woman Rebels (1936)
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