THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Musical
• Plot: After 10 years apart, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers reteam in their final film pairing, cleverly written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and smoothly directed by Charles Walters. The story, per many sources mirrors real-life creative tensions the two shared. Astaire plays driven hoofer Josh Barclay. Rogers is his wife Dinah, who longs to forsake the clackety-clap-tapping of 'Bouncin' the Blues' for stage dramas. She parts, Josh vies to win her back and the routines leading to a happy resolution include Fred's 'Shoes with Wings On' and a rhapsodic reprise of a George and Ira Gershwin number from 'Shall We Dance': 'They Can't Take That Away from Me'. All of which proves they can't take away the Astaire/Rogers magic either.
• Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Gale Robbins, Jacques François, George Zucco, Clinton Sundberg, Inez Cooper, Carol Brewster, Wilson Wood, John Albright, Jean Andren, Lois Austin, Dick Baron, Mary Bayless, Margaret Bert, Betty Blythe, George Boyce, Paul Bradley, Bobby Brooks, George Calliga, Claire Carleton, James Carlisle, Wheaton Chambers, James Conaty, Hans Conried, Gene Coogan, Lorinne Crawford, Marcel De la Brosse, Helen Dickson, Mimi Doyle, Helen Eby-Rock, Mary Jo Ellis, Frank Ferguson, Tom Ferrandini, Bess Flowers, Kenneth Gibson, James Gonzalez, Dick Gordon, Joseph Granby, Marion Gray, Sherry Hall, Mahlon Hamilton, Sam Harris, Roberta Johnson, Kenner G. Kemp, Edward Kilroy, Nolan Leary, Carl M. Leviness, King Lockwood, Leota Lorraine, Wilbur Mack, Alphonse Martell, Mickey Martin, Joyce Mathews, Harold Miller, Patrick Miller, Howard M. Mitchell, Roger Moore, Forbes Murray, Betty O'Kelly, Louis Payne, Paul Power, Bob Purcell, Jack Rice, Jeffrey Sayre, Reginald Simpson, Esther Somers, Larry Steers, Amzie Strickland, William Tannen, Butch Terrell, Laura Treadwell, Dee Turnell, Charles Van, Lillian West, Max Willenz, Richard Winters, Allen Wood, Charles Walters, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Sidney Sheldon
• Director: Charles Walters
• Runtime: 1:49
• Company: Warner Home Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's Incorporated
• Media Format: Movie