Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers on Rollerskates

[@patticarpenter4382]

What talent! Dancing & skating in time to the music.

[@LocalManMakesMusic]

I love the way the skates sound. Not just the tapping but also the swooooosh. Sounds so cool.

[@catsmother3]

This is also the sound of me breaking my wrist as a kid! Just seen this for the first time ever and wow that sound brought back memories!

[@pacificostudios]

Why did the sound designer play the skating sound so loud? The music is non-diegetic. The taps were added in post-production. It's a great scene and a highlight of Golden Age filmmaking.

[@mistyfalin5445]

Thanks dad

[@suehuhn7776]

What a great number! The movie is "Shall We Dance" I'm watching now.

[@AntonioChilin]

Thanks for that!!!!

[@juliedepardailhan185]

They can't take that away!

[@donttreadonme1619]

True talent

[@pacificostudios]

150 takes. That's all you need to make a display of effortless perfection like this.

[@pacificostudios]

Chaplin did over 342 takes for one scene in City Lights" (1931), where a blind flower-seller sells a man a flower.

[@l_Live_In_Oregon]

That's actually not bad, when you think about all the practice they had to put in. Skates have improved greatly since that time.

[@samrodshenassa978]

1:44 until the first edit, relying on pure talent. Impressive.

[@pacificostudios]

Good observation. Pure talent and 150 takes. Cinema history!

[@summerz8867]

Good times🛼🛼

[@carlcunningham7750]

Semi-related- Fred got into Skateboarding in his 70s, even breaking his wrist practicing in his driveway. He said he'd wished Skateboards became popular a few years earlier because he could have come up with killer routines using them, which I'm sad we'll never get to see.

[@brynmiller4232]

Very tough

[@valley5617]

Did they go off the edge in rehearsals? They are very close

[@susanchandler3744]

I wonder how many takes this scene required?!

[@meilingmoore9631]

From oldhollywoodfans on Instagram: “Shall we dance”, (1937). •The seventh (of ten) dancing partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. •The scene where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance on roller skates took about 150 takes, according to one of the VHS versions of the film. •At the end of the roller skate dance number in the park the stars flop onto the "lawn". In the film both Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appear uncomfortable as they get up. This is because both were bruised from more than fifteen earlier takes and were actually in pain. #oldhollywood

[@IbePiglet]

At about 1:09 Ginger looks concerned...like she was afraid of going down!

[@Chris-dm1je]

​@meilingmoore9631 In one documentary, someone said that they took 22 takes dancing up a staircase. The man relating this said that he noticed Ginger's shoes were pink but she'd started in white. He thought she'd changed her shoes until he realised it was blood.

[@brendafegley3317]

I read 150

[@dillonfiles1731]

I heard it took about 30 hours to film. I think.

[@sauzimer]

Também fasso sapateado mas no sei andar de patins

[@dannyk4475]

Fred was a great dancer but ginger did it backwards

[@rsbobeenie]

danny k old saying. Ginger did everything Fred did only backwards in high heels.

[@dannyk4475]

@@rsbobeenie THANK YOU MY FRIEND AND YOU ARE RIGHT ON

[@donttreadonme1619]

Michael Jackson took alot from Fred Astaire. "Imitation is the most sincerest form of flatter"

[@NauticaSea217]

They copied Gene Kelly. And why would you not? ;)

[@jackanthony976]

That is not Ginger Rogers. That is her very talented stand in who WAS a professional dancer.

[@Chris-dm1je]

She didn't use a stand in, she was a professional dancer before she teamed up with Astaire.

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

You are CRAZY.

[@ArthurLeng-o4r]

It was Gingers idea to do the roller skates, and it was definately Ginger, she NEVER used a stand in for her dancing as she was the top overall dancer of her time.

[@babbaruff1045]

I love Fred but Gene did it better 😎