The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

19491h 49mdir. Charles WaltersUnited Statesmusical filmcomedy film

With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Betty Blythe, William Tannen, Jacques François, Clinton Sundberg

Directed by Charles Walters

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The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 American Technicolor musical comedy film from the Arthur Freed unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart. Directed by Charles Walters, the screenplay is by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Sidney Sheldon, the songs are by Harry Warren (music) and Ira Gershwin (lyrics) with the addition of "They Can't Take That Away from Me" by George and Ira Gershwin, and the choreography was created by Robert Alton and Hermes Pan. Also featured in the cast were Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Jacques François and Gale Robbins. It is famously known as the last film that Astaire and Rogers made together, and their only film tog

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