Tuesday, January 31, 2012

New blog and Fred and Ginger

 Hello everyone! I know I haven't posted in awhile and I'm very sorry, I will try to post more often. but I just wanted to take a little time and tell you all about this new blog that I have been helping to run. It's a blog for my church and we are going to be posting VEGAN recipes on it and some videos and articles. So if you have some time and are interested in any of these things please follow our blog.

We only have two posts up so far but trust me, there WILL be more! We also made a Facebook page which so far has a lot more posts on it, if you want to check it out here is the Link

And now back to classics.

I honestly just want to make a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appreciation post.
They are just amazing aren't they?

I don't remember exactly when I first saw a Fred and Ginger movie, but I believe it was almost at the end of 2007. Maybe around October. The first movie I saw with them was Shall We Dance and I LOVED it. After that I tried desperately to find the rest of their movies, then after seeing them all I soon came to be a HUGE Ginger fan and set out to watch all her movies. I love Fred too of course, but Ginger is my favorite actress ever. But I always go back to those 10 wonderful movies they made together. They have so much chemistry,  I mean they worked fantastically together! The movies they made together are perfect. The dancing, the songs, the scripts, the actors.... ;D  I know most of the songs by heart. It's hard to choose my favorite movie of theirs, but they used to be Roberta and Top Hat. Now I have changed my mind a bit though, and I believe my favorites are Shall We Dance and Top Hat. As for favorite song, that is a question I could not answer, because I love A LOT of them.

I created this list (with the link to the song and dance) of all my favorite dance numbers or songs from the Fred and Ginger movies. I also looooooooove when Fred plays the piano, so if you watch all the links you'll spot a couple of piano songs!

                   Flying Down to Rio: The Carioca




The Gay Divorcee: Night and Day
Roberta: I'll Be Hard to Handle, I Won't Dance
Top Hat:Cheek to Cheek, The Piccolino, and Isn't it a Lovely Day?
Follow the Fleet: Let's Face the Music and Dance, I'm Putting all my Eggs in One Basket
Swing Time: Never Gonna Dance, A Fine Romance
Shall We Dance: They all Laughed, They Can't Take that Away From Me
Carefree: Change Partners, and the Yam
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle: The Last Waltz
The Barkleys of Broadway: They Can't Take That Away From Me Dance






 
                                                 Have a great day everyone!

                                                                                 Anna

3 comments:

  1. Incredible stuff, Anna! Love the pics there...haven't seen a few of those...

    With these films getting closer on the horizon of GingerReviews, it's gonna be tough to sort them out... all of them have their great moments! And when ya stop and think about it, you really can't 'leave out' ANY of their routines...just too much greatness in each of them!

    Keep up the awesome work, Anna! And be sure to visit over on G-ology... Rafter Romance is next up - just watched it tonight (well, for the 'umpteenth' time, of course), and it's still a hoot...should be a fun review!

    KIG, Anna!!!

    VKMfanHuey
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  2. Heyyy! It's been forever. Hope you're doing well :D Anyways, I'm glad!

    I know right? They are all so amazing. It's hard to pick a favorite movie, dance, song.......*sigh* :P Good luck with those. I can't wait to see them :D

    I will. Really? Love that movie! It's one of my favorite Ginger movies :D Have an awesome day!

    Anna

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  3. Thanks, Anna! I've been OK, but a bit 'congested'...just the type of junk that doesn't 'knock you out', but just 'aggravates' you...

    anyway, hope you are well, and good luck on the church blog! I am actually doing Atkins at present time (I've been on and off for years) - which has quite a bit of vegs on it, save for potatoes and corn...any starch is out...so generally 'green' stuff, salads, cauliflower, broccoli, etc... anyway, keep up the great work!!!

    KIG!

    VKMfanHuey
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