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Billed as "the bright new summer musical delight" when it enjoyed modest success on Broadway in 1926, this completely forgotten show now turns up in P.S. Classics' world-premiere recording and proves a complete delight.

BBC4's recent series on 1930s architecture looks at Britain's art-deco history through neon-tinted glasses.

Duration: 1:39:27 CC TVG Directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick, Eric Clore and Erik Rhodes.

ON THE screen they appeared besotted with each other but, as a new book reveals, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were consumed by conflict, envy and mistrust THE 1988 Democratic party national convention, Texas state treasurer Ann Richards delivered a ground-breaking speech which highlighted the poor representation of women in politics.

The Great Depression has rolled off many a pundit's tongue of late as we strain to make sense of the current economic meltdown.

We're in the money Gold Diggers of 1933 A snappy line of chorus girls frolic in front of the camera: wearing skimpy outfits adorned with giant gold coins, they sing "We're in the money!" But this denial of Depression reality only lasts so long.

DVD cover art - Turner Home Ent. The name, Carefree , pretty much sums up what you need to know about this romantic comedy featuring classic movie favorites Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were cast as show business colleagues in "Flying Down to Rio," the first of the nine RKO musicals that teamed them in the 1930s.

Posted October 4, 2009, 9:33 a.m. I think Latin dancing is so attractive. I cana t be bothered watching fox trots, waltzes, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers bore me to death.

In hard times, entertainment either grinds it out with the rest of us, or it waltzes.

The list of people who've walked through these rooms is endless. "Bob Hope, Joe Fontane, Yule Brenner, Phyllis Diller, Gaga Gabor, Tennessee Williams." If only walls could talk.

When dancer Tony Dovolani glides through a torrid tango or hops to a lively Lindy on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" he's just emulating what he saw as a kid.

"I talk with the authority of failure.'' When thinking about the popular culture of the 1930s, that icon of Jazz Age decadence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, rarely comes to mind.

The worlds happiest cities >> Posted By gunnyreef 20 hours, 14 minutes ago in News > Ever since Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared in the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio, the world has been fascinated with Rio de Janeiro.

Ten urban centers closely associated with unmitigated joy. Ever since Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared in the 1933 film Flying Down to Rio , the world has been fascinated with Rio de Janeiro.

Tony Award-winner Peg Murray once averred that all the world's troubles began when Hollywood stopped making tap dancing movies.

WHEN people fall in love, they opt for an experience that others have had before.

Silent-film images of "Cinderella" and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" flickered across a Downtown movie screen and provided Mike Rivera the perfect outing for his family Sunday.

Silent-film images of "Cinderella" and "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" flickered across a Downtown movie screen and provided Mike Rivera the perfect outing for his family Sunday.

Kelly Choi hosts "Top Chef Masters" at 10 p.m. on Bravo. REPOSSESSED! - Hoping to strengthen his business, JAM Recovery, Larry Pittman struggles to track down and deliver a coveted Lexus he's been chasing for more than a year, then fools a deadbeat Jeep owner into revealing where the vehicle is stashed.