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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1930s with profits of $1.3 million. They were voted fourth on the Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll published by Quigley Publishing Company. By 1936, Astaire and Rogers were top box office names. That year they made another two movies together: "Follow the Fleet" and "Swing Time", which were both hits, earning worldwide rentals of $2.7 million and $2.6 million respectively. "Follow the Fleet" boasted another Irving Berlin score, which featured the well known vignette "Let's Face the Music and Dance". "Swing Time" spawned the Oscar-winning song "The Way You Look Tonight", written by Jerome Kern with lyrics