Tap Dance 1936 (Ginger Rogers)

From the movie: FOLLOW THE FLEET 1936
This is said to be Ginger Rogers only solo dance routine in all of the Fred and Ginger movies. Offhand I can't think of any others. It is also claimed that choreographer Hermes Pan actually dubbed the tap sounds for Ginger on the soundtracks so you're seeing Ginger but hearing Hermes.

[robbierice]

Ginger Rogers was gorgeous and amazing tap dancer

[IslaLisa-gt]

❤❤❤❤everything about life back then is so attractive. I love it.

[annamariapirknernenador]

Thanks! Ilove tap dance. Fred and Ginger are the greatest dancers. Their dance numbers are fantastic!

[errolfan]

Very nice indeed! You do it in one take!

[fabrice-emmanuelory]

"Thank you, that's very nice ..." ;)

[esmeephillips]

I believe Hermes Pan always dubbed Ginger's steps. OTOH, she sang for herself.

This was indeed her only minute of solo dancing at RKO. Her legs would never be as thin again.

The two questions fans were always asking were 'When will Fred kiss her?' and 'Why doesn't she tap, like Ruby Keeler?'. The first query was amusingly answered in 'Carefree', in slow motion. The second stung her to this short turn. She is playing a taxi dancer trying to move up, so the audition setting fulfils Fred's insistence that numbers fit into the story.

Pan also created a super little sequence for Ginger in her first solo star vehicle ('In Person') from a song by Oscar Levant and Dorothy Fields: 'I've Got a New Lease on Life'. It's on YT.

But by 1935 Ginger was no longer a Charlestoning teenager. She wanted to act, to get laughs like Lombard or chew the drapes like Hepburn. She had little interest in dancing or singing for their own sake, only if a plot entailed them. Her reminiscences of the Astaire years are much more about how she looked- costumes and hair- than how she moved.

[pauljung]

"Forgive the pun, but God tapped Ginger, with great legs, talent, and fun!"