From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Mack A. Damia  wrote:   
   >Mon, 2 Aug 2021 01:37:07 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"  wrote:   
   >>Mack A. Damia  wrote:   
   >>>Sun, 1 Aug 2021 21:11:30 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" :   
   >>>>Mack A. Damia  wrote:   
      
   >>>>>After Fred died, Ginger got bitter and said some unkind things about   
   >>>>>him.   
      
   >>>>>Something about that he didn't give her enough credit and was a task   
   >>>>>master during rehearsals.  He wasn't particularly kind to her. . . .   
      
   >>>>Oh, c'mon. Rehearsals aren't "kind". Everyone has always said the lead   
   >>>>dancer or choreographer is a taskmaster. Same thing was said about Gene   
   >>>>Kelly.   
      
   >>>All I know is that Ginger had some unkind remarks about Fred after he   
   >>>died.  That's my point.   
      
   >>>I have no idea how he actually treated her.   
      
   >>I'm disputing her expectations of a rehearsal.   
      
   >You must realize that she was elderly when she made the comments, and   
   >her better days in film were long-gone.   
      
   >Too much free time on her hands, too many memories, and maybe not   
   >enough "glory"?  She was 83 years old when she died in 1995.  She must   
   >have felt that Fred got more acclaim than she did.   
      
   There aren't too many movie pairings from the 1930s remembered as fondly   
   as Fred and Ginger decades later. I don't think she was denied acclaim.   
   Those movies weren't beloved for their scripts!   
      
   >Did Fred choreograph the routines?  I think he did.  He collaborated   
   >with Hermes Pan (1910 - 1990).   
      
   >You know how older people complain.  Just ask my housekeeper.   
      
   Hah!   
      
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