Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers In 1934, Astaire and Rogers made the musical movie "The Gay Divorcee" which co-starred Edward Everett Horton; it was their first joint starring role in a movie and grossed even more with worldwide rentals of $1.8 million; the movie also featured the classic Cole Porter song "Night and Day". The song "The Continental" from the movie was a hit and was also the first song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song in the 1934 Academy Awards. Astaire and Rogers made two movies in 1935, "Roberta", which featured the song "I Won't Dance" and "Top Hat", which also
Charles Coleman (actor) & Woolsey comedy "Diplomaniacs" (1933), 1934's "Born to Be Bad" which starred Loretta Young and Cary Grant, the 1934 version of "Of Human Bondage" starring Bette Davis and Leslie Howard, the first film to star the pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, "The Gay Divorcee" (1935), the first feature-length film to be shot entirely in Technicolor, "Becky Sharp", 1936's "Magnificent Obsession" starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor, the Spencer Tracy vehicle, "Captains Courageous" (1937), "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937), starring Errol Flynn and Claude Rains, and the Reginald Owen version of "A Christmas Carol" (1938). The 1940s would