For Fred Astaire
Kisses in Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers films
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Shall We Dance (1937) & The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
They can’t take that away from me.
Songs Introduced By Fred Astaire
Pick Yourself Up - Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields
Written for the film Swing Time (1936), Pick Yourself Up, and is sung by Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The song has been recorded by Astaire and numerous other artists since it’s introduction, and even made an appearance in Barack Obama’s inauguration speech in 2009.
The dance connected to this song has been quoted as being one of the pair’s best, with John Mueller stating: “[the dance] is one of the very greatest of Astaire’s playful duets: boundlessly joyous, endlessly re-seeable.”
Ginger Rogers and William Powell in Star of Midnight (1935)
”Of course,Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.” - Fred Astaire
