September 11 movie: Follow the Fleet. This isn't Fred and Ginger's best, in fact it's probably one of their weakest, but I still have a fondness for it. It includes the magnificent "Let's Face the Music and Dance" number, and also some great songs, like one of my favorites, "I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket."
It's also got some truly hideous gender politics, including this exchange between Ginger Rogers and Harriet Hilliard:
Hilliard: "I don't know why, I just scare men away."
Rogers: "You look too intelligent. It's not that men prefer blondes; we just look dumber."
Feh.
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I just LOVED this - it's OH so true!!! And, I love being a SMART blond 'cos it really throws them off!
Rogers: "You look too intelligent. It's not that men prefer blondes; we just look dumber."