Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please 34 seconds of the song "Thanks for the Memory" then fades into the next song ("The Continental," the oldest movie theme on this album). "Thanks for the Memory" is also the last track on the album and continues where it left off but fades immediately after the next verse. There were two singles to come from this album: "We May Never Love Like This Again" (from "The Towering Inferno", which was a minor hit for McGovern one year before) and "The Continental" (from the 1934 film "The Gay Divorcee", which was the very first song to ever win an Oscar).
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