The Barkleys of Broadway
by Charles Walters, Edward L. Cahn, Tex Avery
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Actor: Bill Thompson, Billie Burke, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar LevantDirector: Charles Walters, Edward L. Cahn, Tex Avery
Brand: ASTAIRE,FRED
Writer: Adolph Green
Writer: Betty Comden
Writer: Jack Cosgriff
Writer: John Nesbitt
Writer: Rich Hogan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Barkleys of Broadway
Movie Review: They Can't They That Away From Them..
Summary: 5 Stars
After a ten year hiatus, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers got together made their tenth and final movie together. Finding Astaire 50 years old, and Rogers, 38, it's the dancing couple's first and only picture together in color, full, saturated Technicolor, no less.
The movie differs from the stars' previous work in that they start out as a bickering married couple. Rogers is tired of being made to feel that Astaire has been her Svengali and craves a serious move. (Kitty Foyle, somebody?) The French climax was a brilliant touch.
Astaire is awesome. The "Shoes With Wings" routine, I feel was only the third best dance scene in the movie. "Bouncing The Blues," an entertaining workout, was incredible! Staccato taps, to stripper-like finish with Rogers concealing their affection with the curtain at dances end, was pure joy. Though not as limber as she was in her youth, Ginger looks athletically muscled, and makes up for the changes over time. Her partner leads with a chemistry only those two know.
But the emotional apex of the film has to be the rhapsodic reprise of "They Can't Take That Away From Me," from "Shall We Dance," on which both Ira and George Gershwin worked. With Breathless artistry and excellent precision, I get chills watching this dance. Watch Ginger and Fred near the end of this closely: Magically mesmerizing, they made love in dance, and you can feel the flames of their passion.
That timeless highlight was the pinnacle of their whole union. My only regret is even after ten movies, they left me wanting more.
Alas, history can't take the magic from their legacy away from me.
William Fredrick Cooper
(Author Of THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON)
Summary of The Barkleys of Broadway
A collection of musical films starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.Genre: Musicals
Rating: NR
Release Date: 16-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD
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