Carefree
1938's CAREFREE was one of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' late screen outings, and is probably not one of their finest hours. Not due to a lack of ambition. The screenplay penned by Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano is plot heavy and eventful. Typical screwball. It is just fine, and with a few tweaks might've been some sort of template for this sort of thing. The cast, however, all seem a bit off their game. For the comedic stuff at least. The song and dance is (almost) always the thing in these vehicles, and is as entertaining as always. My particular favorite has Astaire "tap golfing". Bet that took more than a few takes. Astaire plays Dr. Tony Flagg, a psychiatrist whose friend Stephen (Ralph Bellamy) is distraught over his fiancee Amanda's (Rogers) repeated cold feet regarding marriage. Stephen suggests Tony take her on as a patient, to perhaps probe her subconscious to get to the root of the problem. We kno...
