Friday, November 7, 2008

Friday night at the movies - "The Carioca"

Honey: "What's this business with the forehead?"
Fred: "Mental telepathy."
Honey: "I can tell what they're thinking about from here."
Here's Fred and Ginger from their first movie together, "Flying Down to Rio". In the first scene here, they're supposedly trying out a Brazilian dance, the 'Carioca'. The dance, though, was simply created for the movie -- a Carioca is, in fact, a resident of Rio de Janeiro.:

The singer of "The Carioca" is Etta Moten of Porgy and Bess fame.

And, speaking of Gershwin, here's Fred and Ginger from "Shall We Dance" tap-dancing on roller skates -- as one does!:

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