Follow the Fleet

Ginger Rogers introduces an Irving Berlin original, as Sherry, singer at a San Francisco club where on-leave sailor “Bake” (Fred Astaire), her old partner and boyfriend, doesn’t yet realize she’s working, in a knockout sailor suit, Betty Grable in the backup group, in Follow The Fleet, 1936.

Just re-united, ex-partners and ex-couple Sherry and “Bake” (Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire), at the club where she works and he’s visiting as an on-leave sailor, with a plucky little dance challenge, reprising an Irving Berlin song, with Jimmy Dorsey’s band, in Follow The Fleet, 1936.

After most of the Irving Berlin lyric, sailor "Bake" (Fred Astaire) with a blinding tap number, ensemble staged by Hermes Pan, to I'd Rather Lead A Band, in Follow The Fleet, 1936.

From the shipboard fundraiser, "Bake" (Fred Astaire) and Sherry (Ginger Rogers), with Irving Berlin's famous song, including the moment, just over two minutes in, where he gets clocked by the sleeve of her 25-pound dress, in Follow The Fleet, 1936.

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers face the music and dance in the naval musical Follow The Fleet (1936).