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Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 (Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet)
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Product Details
- Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
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- Audience Rating: Unrated
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Mark Sandrich, Thornton Freeland
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- EAN: 9780790749617
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- Format: Box set, Black & White, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0790749610
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- Label: Warner Home Video
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- Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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- Number of Items: 5
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Warner Home Video
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- Release Date: 2000-09-05
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- Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1934-10-12
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- Title: Astaire & Rogers Collection Volume 1 (Flying Down to Rio, The Gay Divorcee, Roberta, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet)
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- UPC: 085392553839
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: Fans of classic movie musicals will be in heaven with two five-video sets of the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the quintessential dancing duo. Fred and Ginger weren't always stars--the former Broadway hoofer and studio chorus girl were cast as the second-tier "comic" couple in three of their early films (Flying Down to Rio, Roberta, Follow the Fleet), and the pace drags whenever they're not on the screen. The high points of the first set are The Gay Divorcee, which proved that the pair could carry a film, and Top Hat, generally considered their definitive movie. All the films mix light romantic comedy (usually centered around mistaken identities and ending, inevitably, in blissful wedding promises) with elegant dinner wear and surreal sets intended to transport '30s audiences away from the Depression to such locales as Rio, Paris, and Venice. But of course the real reason to watch these films is the sensational dancing set to great songs by the likes of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and Jerome Kern, numbers that are not merely entertaining but also innovative for their time in that they reveal character and advance the plot. The quintessential romantic duet "Night and Day," the grand ensemble number "The Continental," the definitive tuxedo setting "Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails," the famously feathery "Cheek to Cheek," and the epic show-within-a-show "Let's Face the Music and Dance" are some of the best musical moments ever set to celluloid. --David Horiuchi
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Customer Reviews
Crime it's not available on DVD!!!
With all the cr@# they release on DVD these days it's a crime not to have these magnificent movies restored PROPERLY and released on DVD. Both collections are outstanding. Who could ever tire of this glamorous and talented pair. PLEASE! I beg for both sets to be released on DVD and restored with the respect these films deserve.
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wonderful
These two may have had other leading men/ladies, but when they're together, it's nothing but... heaven, i'm in heaven...
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Fred & Ginger
Please put this on DVD. I'll buy it in a second.
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Beautiful collection!! A must have!
If you love movies with uplifting story lines and incredible dancing, this is for you!! I highly recommend the entire set. Astaire and Rogers are incredible! No one has come close to them since!!
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I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
It's great to see Astaire and Rogers finally getting their due with two boxed sets that represent all 10 of their films. This set represents the first five chapters of the greatest romance in movie history and shows the two performers growing from self-conscious youthful exuberance into the polished teamwork everybody remembers. With each film there is a fairly breathtaking advance in every area -- from acting and directing to sets and makeup, and of course in music and choreography. All five movies have wonderful things in them, but the standouts are "Roberta," a masterpiece of sparkling musical comedy with a brilliant score and phenomenal dancing, and "Top Hat," which remains the definitive Astaire/Rogers movie. Even "Follow the Fleet," burdened with a tedious script and leaden direction, comes alive in the superb musical numbers. If you have to choose between the two A/R sets, the other may have the edge, but this one is equally indispensible.
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