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Follow the Fleet is a 1936 American musical comedy film with a nautical theme starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their fifth collaboration as dance partners. It also features Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in supporting roles. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich with script by Allan Scott and Dwight…
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Hollywood tends to be risk-averse, but even in its Classic period, studios occasionally experimented with successful formulas. That included musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which brought escapist fun to impoverished Depression-era masses by portraying a magical and unattainable upper-class world. Compared with most of them, *Follow the Fleet*, a 1936 film directed by Mark Sandrich, represents a som…More
