7 DVDs Show How Divine and Dramatic Dance Can Be

From Astaire to Fonteyn, these were the greats who put emotion in motion

ASTAIRE & ROGERS COLLECTION VOL. I

He was a geek with brilliant feet, she a pert blond chorine. Yet when Fred took Ginger in his arms and led her across a ballroom floor, he not only defined the film musical but also, deep in the Depression, created a new ideal of "la belle, la perfectly swell romance." Most of their best numbers--Isn't This a Lovely Day and Cheek to Cheek from Top Hat, the all-time sublime Never Gonna Dance from Swing Time--are in this five-film set, along with cogent analysis of the screen's most buoyant duo.

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