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BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY FRED ASTAIRE GINGER ROGERS 1949 1-SHEET
$ 130.41
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The Barkleys of Broadwaybegan with the working title of
You Made Me Love You
, and with
Judy Garland
in the lead role opposite, a repeat of their pairing in
Easter Parade
(1948). In fact, producer
Arthur Freed
had
Comden
and
Green
working on the script for the new film even before
Easter Parade
was finished.
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The film went into rehearsals with Garland, but it was soon clear that she would not be physically and emotionally able to do it. Freed contacted Ginger Rogers to see if she was interested in reuniting with Astaire: there had been rumors, denied by both, that the Astaire-Rogers working relationship had not been particularly warm, and they had not worked together since
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
in 1939. Rogers was interested, and
The Barkleys of Broadway
became their tenth and final film together, as well as their only film in color.
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