Ginger and Fred Ginger and Fred Ginger and Fred () is a 1986 comedy/drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina. The title is a reference to the American dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two leads portray Italian impersonators of Astaire and Rogers who reunite after thirty years of retirement for a vulgar and bizarre television extravaganza. The film was the subject of a trademark claim in the United States by Ginger Rogers, who claimed in "Rogers v. Grimaldi" that the film violated her Lanham Act trademark rights, right of publicity, and was a "false
Ginger Rogers Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, the noir, anti-Ku Klux Klan film by Warner Bros., and in "Monkey Business" (1952) with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe, directed by Howard Hawks. In the same year, she also starred in "We're Not Married!", also featuring Marilyn Monroe, and in "Dreamboat". She played the female lead in "Tight Spot" (1955), a mystery thriller, with Edward G. Robinson. After a series of unremarkable films, she scored a great popular success on Broadway in 1965, playing Dolly Levi in the long-running "Hello, Dolly!". In later life, Rogers remained on good terms with Astaire; she presented him