loves this Movie but has trouble watching Ginger in the opening scene because of what she's wearing?
I'm such a big adoring fan of hers, and I love her elegance and regalness in her later films, and I have trouble looking at her inthat skimpy outfit in the beginning.... I just feel like I shouldn't be looking at Ginger Rogers, like that, you know? lol
"Mein Fuhrer, I Can Walk" -- Dr. Strangelove
Studies in Hollywood musical film always comment how Ginger Rogers gave Fred Astaire sex appeal and Fred Astaire gave Ginger Rogers class. I think that this is a great example of that lacking class and grace without Astaire.
shareI LOVE Ginger in her early movies. As her pre-code, naughty self she is one of my favourite actresses. Later on, in her Fred Astaire musicals she loses all interest for me. I just love her as a saucy, vulgar chorus girl! No one did it better than her and she was SO gorgeous back in the day!
I get the feeling you're violating somebody's basic human rights here...
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I agree that I find her way more interesting, saucy and attractive in her pre-code days. Not that I don't love her work with Astaire but there was something so naughty and lovely about her before they teamed up :)
Where the underworld can meet the elite - 42nd Street
Ginger, while a cutie in Gold Diggers of 1933, still has her baby fat and her teeth aren't capped. This is a pre-Code delight, what with the scantily-clad beauties and the risqué songs--"Young and Healthy" from 42nd Street (also w/ Ginger) is great!
Consilio et prudentia
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Toby Wing is featured in "Young and Healthy," not Ginger Rogers.
shareAnd it isn't just capped teeth. The creases on the sides of her nose were removed--the biggest plastic surgery change that cannot be explained by baby fat. (They can still be seen when she smiles and grimaces, but are not so deep and uneven.) Then there are subtle changes...her eyebrows get a better shape, and then I think she had plastic surgery thet only changed her face in tiny ways--her forehead became smoother, her nose a teeny bit narrower, smaller, her chin smoother and slightly narrower, cuter.
I compared her face in a dozen movies, freezing the frames, because she became so flawlessly pretty...which any woman knows is difficult to do as you age. The changes are slight, nothing gauche like we see today. It's her, she's just more perfect.
I agree! I LOVE her when she was "saucy & sexy"! I honestly dunno why people make such a big deal over "pre-code" stuff.....it's all pretty innocent, compared to the garbage we have today!!!
shareYes, Ginger is hot in this movie. The part where the camera focuses up close to her mouth when she is doing the pig latin thing is a little creepy, though. Her teeth look like wood.
shareThose are what REAL teeth looked like back in the day, not veneered, capped, and whitened teeth that everyone now has.
shareThe first comment was provocative and produced many agreeable comments. She was a big favorite of mine and I enjoyed very much seeing her 'early' work. It was a treat to see her in this film yesterday in November 2013. Love her.
I miss Big Band music and talented singers. Leonard Cohen is my idol. Civility, harmony, unity!
Im simply repeating what many have stated but I love naughty young Ginger!! She eventually matured and left her "girls gone wild circa 1933" side behind and became the classy, elegant, beautiful woman we all know and love her as...... but lets be glad she also had a little touch of spring break in her too!!!
shareI thought the same thing about her teeth. I took a closeup photo of her at the end of the "You're in the Money" number. Then I posted it in Facebook asking the question: Who is this? In less than five minutes, some answered "Ginger Rogers."
shareI wondered if you're seeing some lipstick stain on her teeth in the close up.
Oh, and I didn't have any trouble seeing GR in "that way". I thought the pig latin was kinda sexy in a weird way.
Ginger never liked that quote that Katherine Hepburn famously said about Fred and Ginger.."He gave her class, she gave him sex".
Ginger's response to that was "Nobody can give someone else class. You either got it or you ain't". That's why I love Ginger Rogers. Nobody needed to give her class. She was as classy as it gets.
I love this movie but, unlike you, I didn't have any problem watching Ginger in that opening number. I love Ginger Rogers but I'm a woman so it's not in a sexual way. I enjoy seeing her and didn't think the outfit was demeaning. She was a young actress then and hadn't yet made a name for herself as she would later. Still, she was still good in the role and helped made the movie interesting.
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]
Ginger was hottest in the black dress that she loaned to Joan (as if they'd wear the same size). Yowza!
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