The Gay Divorcee Astaire, Fred performer Rogers, Ginger performer Grable, Betty performer Film 1934-10-11 RKO Radio Marking his emergence as a self-conscious filmer of dance, Astaire plays a young professional dancer who falls in love with Rogers, a recent divorcee; this musical film with music by Cole Porter initiates the Astaire-Rogers phenomenon and is highlighted by "Night and Day" with shuffling supplicating steps that signifying a mating call and exchanged with Rogers in a call and response patterning that culminates in a face-to-face consummation; and "The Continental" which combines smooth-gliding rhythms with a splash of breaks; delicate footwork and gliding patterns. Betty Grable's first featured solo is "Let's K-nock K-neez" Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Frank, Rusty E.: Tap! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and their Stories 1900-1955. New York, William Morrow. (1990). Smith, Ernie: Selected List of Films and Kinescopes. In Jean and Marshall Stearns' Jazz Dance (1968). Mueller, John: Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films. New York: Knopf (1985). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Fred Astaire (biography) loc.music.tdabio.16 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.72