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Carefree (DVD, 2006)
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Leading Role: Fred Astaire
Director: Mark Sandrich
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Oct 2006
Format: DVD
UPC: 053939756722
Product ID: EPID54735627
Description: A comic Astaire/Rogers pairing that's more madcap than most. When stuffed-shirt Bellamy (and who can play that part better?) sends his dizzy radio-singer fiancee to a shrink to find out why she won't settle down, the dancing analyst open...
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best movie ever. will definatly buyagain.bestsellereverReview created: 07/05/09
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beat fred astaire and ginger riger movie. than Top Hat after that.I couldn't have asked for a better seller. Fast past shipping and movie works perferct. Thank you so much for the sell. I am very please with my product.
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Thank you for voting. If your vote meets our Wonderful movie, loved the dancing and the singingReview created: 03/11/09
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) I bought this movie a couple weeks ago and i absolutely love it. My friend had recommended this movie because she knew I love Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. She was completely correct. The dancing was amazing and i love the songs in this movie. The plot is one of your typical Fred Astaire love stories but added a new twist to his character.
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Plot-freeIncredibly dumb, lightweight story about Fred as a psychiatrist (convincingly enough), and Ginger as air-headed, misguided patient about to marry incredibly dumb, completely unconvincing Ralph Bellamy. The dances, as usual, are from another dimension entirely--except for "The Yam", which is as corny, and as bad, as its title. Fred can do no wrong, but this movie's scriptwriter should just have been taken out and shot. This is fluff--completely unleavened by genuine humor. Except, of course, for the dancing.
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CarefreeI'm a huge Fred and Ginger fan. I have many of their movies and even though Carefree was not on the top of the list when it came out, it's my absolutely favorite of all their films. Ms. Rodgers is at her best with a perfect mix of drama and silliness. Carefree lives up to it's name and is a lot of fun.
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Wacky Astaire-Rogers MusicalReview created: 10/27/06
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Carefree (1938) was the eighth of ten musicals pairing the inimitable Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but this very good film is rather different from the typical Astaire-Rogers fare. This is a musical-screwball comedy, combining Fred and Ginger's great dancing with zany shenanigans. Also rare is the fact that Astaire is not playing a professional dancer or entertainer--he's a doctor, a psychiatrist who treats Ginger, a radio singer and the fiancee of Fred's friend (Ralph Bellamy).
Dr. Astaire is supposed to be helping Rogers and Bellamy straighten out the kinks in their relationship so they can be happily married, but Fred's treatment backfires when Ginger falls in love with him, not Bellamy. He uses hypnosis to make her love Bellamy and despise him but regrets this when he realizes he loves Ginger.
There are several hilarious scenes, including a drugged and hypnotized Ginger causing mayhem and chasing Fred around a country club with a loaded shotgun. This film has fewer songs than most Astaire-Rogers musicals, but the dancing is, as usual, first-rate. Ginger's rendition of Irving Berlin's "The Yam" is also fun.
Fans of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers will enjoy Carefree very much. If you haven't seen any Astaire-Rogers pictures before, you might want to start with Top Hat or Gay Divorcee, as this film is different from the others.
To learn more about Fred Astaire's movies, please check out my guide, A Fred Astaire Film Guide, which you can access by clicking above to read all reviews and guides by me, tivoli1228, or by searching eBay's reviews and guides page. Thanks.
Dr. Astaire is supposed to be helping Rogers and Bellamy straighten out the kinks in their relationship so they can be happily married, but Fred's treatment backfires when Ginger falls in love with him, not Bellamy. He uses hypnosis to make her love Bellamy and despise him but regrets this when he realizes he loves Ginger.
There are several hilarious scenes, including a drugged and hypnotized Ginger causing mayhem and chasing Fred around a country club with a loaded shotgun. This film has fewer songs than most Astaire-Rogers musicals, but the dancing is, as usual, first-rate. Ginger's rendition of Irving Berlin's "The Yam" is also fun.
Fans of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers will enjoy Carefree very much. If you haven't seen any Astaire-Rogers pictures before, you might want to start with Top Hat or Gay Divorcee, as this film is different from the others.
To learn more about Fred Astaire's movies, please check out my guide, A Fred Astaire Film Guide, which you can access by clicking above to read all reviews and guides by me, tivoli1228, or by searching eBay's reviews and guides page. Thanks.
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