Showing posts with label Friday night at the movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday night at the movies. Show all posts

Friday, November 21, 2008

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!: