If Fred Astaire Is The

I Wanted To Do New Things With Dance, Adapt It To The Motion Picture Medium.

You Dance Love, And You Dance Joy, And You Dance Dreams.

When Ginger Rogers Danced With Astaire, It Was The Only Time In The Movies When You Looked At The Man, Not The Woman.

It Fit Into My Scheme Of Things For Many Reasons. At The Time It Was True That Male Dancers Were Looked Down Upon, And It Was True That A Lot Of The Male Dancers Were Effeminate. But What I Was Really Trying To Do Was Develop Something That Would Be American.

I'd Studied Dance In Chicago Every Summer And Taught It All Winter, And I Was Well-rounded. I Wasn't Worried About Getting A Job On Broadway. In Fact, I Got One The First Week.