Fred Astaire – Dennis test site

Flying Down to Rio

June 21, 2015

Dennis Caraher dancing, Fred and Ginger, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, poetry

When Fred Astaire died on June 22, 1987, Ginger Rogers was living alone on her Rogue River ranch in Oregon. Their last movie was almost forty years before (“The Barkleys of Broadway“) and while Fred and Ginger had parted amicably and remained friends, their iconic onscreen romance of the 1930’s was in the distant past....