November 16 movie: Roberta. As delightful as all Fred and Ginger movies, this one costars Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott. The four leads are really good together. Dunne is one of the great romantic comedy stars of the 1930s and Scott is surprisingly good if you only know him from westerns. Wonderful music by Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach and Dorothy Fields.
Here's an adorable clip of Ginger singing "I'll Be Hard to Handle" in a silly accent, then dancing with Fred. The setup is they're old friends from Indiana, but now she's posing as a Russian countess or something.
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