Ginger and Fred
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Ginger and Fred | |
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Original movie poster | |
Directed by | Federico Fellini |
Produced by |
Alberto Grimaldi Heinz Bibo |
Written by |
Screenplay: Federico Fellini Tonino Guerra Tullio Pinelli Story: Federico Fellini Tonino Guerra |
Starring | |
Music by |
Nicola Piovani Irving Berlin Jerome Kern Lorenz Hart |
Cinematography |
Tonino Delli Colli Ennio Guarnieri |
Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release dates |
13 January 1986 (France:premiere) March 28, 1986 (US) |
Running time | 125 minutes |
Country |
Italy France West Germany |
Language |
Italian English |
Box office | $837,623[1] |
Ginger and Fred (Italian: Ginger e Fred) is a 1986 comedy/drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina.[2]
The title is a reference to the American dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two leads portray Italian impersonators of Astaire and Rogers who reunite after thirty years of retirement for a vulgar and bizarre television extravaganza.
The movie is a complex and coherent indictment of the shallowness of commercial television, which, eager to squeeze commercials across every possible kind of program, deadens the viewers' ability to appreciate complex or thought-provoking themes.
The film was the subject of a trademark claim in the United States by Ginger Rogers, who claimed that the film violated her Lanham Act trademark rights, right of publicity, and was a "false light" defamation.[3] When the Second Circuit rejected this claim, finding that "suppressing an artistically relevant though ambiguous[ly] title[d] film" on trademark grounds would "unduly restrict expression."[4]
Plot
Amelia and Pippo were once together famous as dancers. Thirty years after they've retired they team up one more time for a TV show. Although this reunion is overshadowed by Pippo's lack of stamina their performance is well-received and revives their popularity for another day.
Cast
- Giulietta Masina as Amelia Bonetti (Ginger)
- Marcello Mastroianni as Pippo Botticella (Fred)
- Franco Fabrizi as Show host
- Friedrich von Ledebur as Admiral Aulenti
- Augusto Poderosi as transvestite
- Martin Maria Blau as assistant director
- Jacques Henri Lartigue as Brother Gerolamo
- Totò Mignone as Totò
- Ezio Marano as the intellectual
- Antoine Saint-John as bandaged man
- Friedrich von Thun as kidnapped tycoon
- Antonino Iuorio as TV inspector
- Barbara Scoppa as journalist
- Elisabetta Flumeri as journalist
- Salvatore Billa as Clark Gable
- Caterina Vertova
References
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=gingerandfred.htm
- ↑ "NY Times: Ginger and Fred". NY Times.com. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ↑ Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994 (2d Cir. 1989).
- ↑ Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994, at 1001.
External links
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