Astaire and Rogers by Edward Gallafent Columbia University Press, 256 pp., $24.95 THE PLACE of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as the American dance couple, perhaps even the American romantic couple, ...

Ginger Rogers would have turned 112 this week. We remember her and her collaboration with her most famous partner, Fred Astaire. Ginger Rogers, the late legendary actor and dancer from Hollywood's ...

Like a long-awaited gift from movie heaven, five of the 10 films Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together arrive on DVD this week for the first time. They are nicely remastered, though not ...

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made nine musicals together at RKO studio, the first in 1933, the last in 1939 — and then one more in 1949. In the process, they revolutionized the Hollywood musical.

When Ezio Pinza segued from operaland to Broadway, he would neither duet with co-star Mary Martin, fearing the contrast in their styles, nor sing for more than 14 minutes per evening. When Fred ...