Art Deco Films at the Library

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Carefree (1938) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. With its antic comedy (Ginger, zombied out on psychotherapy and love, heaves a nightstick through a glazier's glass) and its thumping of psychiatric funnybones, Carefree is Fred and Ginger's most comic outing. The score's romantic classic is Irving Berlin's Change Partners. The duo also shares the slow-motion dreamscape of I Used to Be Color Blind and jives through The Yam. And Fred tees off on Since They Turned Loch Lomand into Swing, a sequence that took two weeks and 600 golf balls to film. In dance, as on the links, practice makes perfect.