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Carefree (1938)
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780630147
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0780630149
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: May 02, 2000
Running Time: 80 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: September 02, 1938
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Editorial Review:
Perhaps because it was Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's penultimate picture together for RKO, or perhaps because it is more romantic comedy than musical, Carefree tends to be a neglected entry in the series. This is unfortunate, because it retains many of the elements that made the duo so popular while also breaking new ground. Fred plays Tony Flagg, a psychoanalyst who is asked by his friend Steve (Ralph Bellamy) to try to figure out why his fiancée, Amanda Cooper (Ginger), keeps breaking off their engagement. During the course of treatment, and in a reversal of the usual pattern, Ginger falls for Fred and begins to pursue him. The emotionally repressed doctor resists, leading to a number of comic encounters, as well as a moment of genuine heartbreak. Other innovations include Fred's dance on a driving range, a slow-motion dream sequence (which was going to be shot in color until budget concerns won out), Fred and Ginger's first screen kiss, and some of Ginger's best turns as a comic actress. More familiar elements include Ginger fronting the band at the start of a large company dance number ("The Yam," which failed to catch on as a dance craze), an expert if skimpy Irving Berlin score including the lovely ballad "Change Partners," and of course fabulous, high-flying dancing. Fred and Ginger fans can't afford to miss Carefree. --David Horiuchi
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Neglected gem
With so many outstanding Astaire/Rogers musical comedies, it is easy to overlook this very entertaining film, the duo's 8th outing. This one showcases Rogers because she had proven by this time to be a very big box office star in her own right, mainly due to some very good comedies made without Astaire. The film's merits include:
- a stunning golf solo by Astaire
- Irving Berlin's charming "Change Partners", as good a courting song as the stars ever performed
- Rogers herself, ... Read More
Rating:  - I'm in Heaven
The movie Carefree stars Ginger Rogers in a very richly-textured and subtly-nuanced portrayal of Amanda Cooper, a well-to-do but soon-to-be unhappily married young woman. However, in a charming plot twist, she apparently falls in love with someone else... or something like that. There also seems to be some willowy tap-dancing sort of chap in the picture. I couldn't tell you who, however, as I couldn't take my eyes off of Ginger Rogers.
Rating: - Heartbreaking
Weep for what the world has lost in Fred and Ginger. They were a miraculous combination of skill and beauty which only happens once, and which will never come again. Compared with these magical performances, and these delightful personalities, modern society, and modern movies, just seem endlessly ugly, brutal, crude and clumsy. The thirties were a schizophrenic decade which also had its horrific downside, but to experience this kind of entertainment was to live, for a short hour or two, in an atmosphere ... Read More
Rating: - The driving range sequence is fantastic.
"Carefree" is a fun movie with a decent story line.
The thing is, the driving range dance sequence is one of my favorite scenes of any movie and is relatively unknown. For anyone that golfs, this is an amazing dance scene where Astaire integrates a dance with the launching of multiple golf balls lined up down the range. For anyone that's spent hours trying to hit well struck shots standing still, this is a remarkable feat.
Why this dance isn't used in tournament coverage is beyond me. It's entertaining ... Read More
Rating: - Still my favorite
This was the first movie of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers I remember seeing. I still love it & would still LOVE to wear a dress like Ginger wore during the most awesome dances she & Fred shared (the hypnotizing I call it)
Why can't we have glamor like that anymore?
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