Saturday, March 6, 2021

No Place Like Movies at Home: Carefree

 This next movie is my personal favorite of Fred Astaire's and Ginger Rogers' movies. I was so excited when I finally got to their collection that I almost made this the first one that I did, I resisted. However, I am very glad that I get to share Carefree with you all now!




Tony Flagg (Astaire) is a psychiatrist who works with the subconscious mind. Tony's friend, Stephen, is engaged to the beautiful girl named Amada Cooper (Rogers). They have had an one and off engagement for a while because Amanda can no seem to stick with the idea of getting married. After asking for his help, Tony decides to meet with her and try to get to the root cause of her not being able to commit. Amanda comes to his office and is asked about what she dreams of at night. She tells him that she doesn't dream. He decides to try and fix that. However, the plans are cut short when a misunderstanding leads to her leaving the office in anger. Tony is then asked to conveniently run into them at the club so that he can try to diagnose her again. When he finally gains her trust, he asks her to eat this weird food in order to try and get her to dream. However, her dreams prove to be more than they bargain for when she finds out that she is in love with him!  He tries to make her see reason and hypnotizes her so that she can be in love with Stephen. However, he regrets it as soon as she leaves. Can he win over her mind, and her heart, to get her back?


There are so many reason as to why this is my favorite moves but I one of the biggest reasons is Ginger Rogers' deadpan laugh in this movie. She only does it two or three times but it's by far one of the funniest things she has done! I really love this whole movie because of Ms. Rogers' comedic timing alone. Mr. Astaire is great, and is always charming, but Ms. Roger's does have a lot of different types of acting in this film this time around. She really is the one that runs away with the show this time around. Nothing against Mr. Astaire at all, but Ms. Rogers is the one that caries the film this time around. She sings, dances, acts like she is hypnotized. I mean she is even the one that has to act like she gets punched in the face when everything is said and done. 


This is one of the movies they do that makes me wish they did well more than 10 movies together. It's also the type of film that's so wonderfully perfect, because of their history, that I am also glad they didn't do much more for this gem to be buried under the rest. 

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