Carefree with Dr. Flagg - Carefree

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Movie
German title Carefree with Dr. Flagg - Carefree
Original title Carefree
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1938
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Mark Sandrich
script Ernest Pagano ,
Allan Scott ,
Dudley Nichols ,
Hagar Wilde
production Pandro S. Berman
music Robert Russell Bennett ,
Victor Baravalle ,
Irving Berlin
camera Robert De Grasse
cut William Hamilton
occupation
synchronization

Carefree with Dr. Flagg - Carefree (original title: Carefree ) is an American film musical with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers from 1938. The director was Mark Sandrich , the songs were written by Irving Berlin .

action

Boring lawyer Stephen Arden proposes marriage to his girlfriend Amanda Cooper after another. Amanda works as a singer on the radio and cannot decide whether to marry Stephen or not. He finally asks his friend, the psychiatrist Dr. Tony Flagg, for help. Tony is supposed to treat Amanda so that she can finally overcome her fear of going to the altar.

When Amanda wants to keep an appointment with Tony, she overhears him talking on his tape and describes her as a foolish woman. Outraged, she rebukes Tony and then hastily leaves his practice. They finally meet again in a country club . After a frantic bike chase, Tony apologizes to Amanda. He remains determined to find out why Amanda is afraid of marriage. While Tony tries in vain to penetrate Amanda's subconscious with special fruits and sleeping pills, she falls in love with him.

After Tony used hypnosis to make Amanda no longer like him and instead falls in love with Stephen, Tony realizes that he has also fallen in love with Amanda. To win them back for himself, he wants to hypnotize them again. But Amanda is now avoiding him and Stephen is also preventing him. Shortly before Amanda's and Stephen's wedding, Tony finally manages to hypnotize Amanda and turn her artificial aversion to him back into love. For this purpose he had to knock her out, which is why Amanda then steps in front of the aisle with a black eye to give Tony the yes-word.

background

Carefree with Dr. Flagg - Carefree was the eighth of ten films together by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Aside from Change Partners , Irving Berlin wrote all of the songs for the film within days of vacationing in Phoenix . Originally, the dance scene for his song I Used to Be Color Blind should not only be filmed in slow motion , but also in technicolor . But the quality of the first test shots was too poor, so the scene was shot in black and white like the rest of the film . Astaire rehearsed for two weeks for his dance performance for Since They Turned Loch Lomand into Swing , where he plays golf. The scene was then filmed on April 14th and 15th, 1938 three weeks before the actual start of shooting. The rest of the shooting took place from May 9 to July 21, 1938. The outdoor shots were taken at Columbia Ranch and Busch Gardens in Pasadena .

The world premiere of Worry Free by Dr. Flagg - Carefree took place in the United States on September 2, 1938 . The film grossed $ 1,731,000 at the US box office but made a loss of $ 68,000 in terms of production costs. The film musical was shown on German television for the first time on June 17, 1985.

Music and dance numbers

  • Since They Turned Loch Lomand into Swing ( Irving Berlin ): danced by Fred Astaire while playing golf
  • Carefree (Berlin): danced by Astaire
  • I Used To Be Color Blind (Berlin): Danced in slow motion by Astaire and Ginger Rogers within a dream sequence
  • The Yam (Berlin): sung by Rogers; danced by Astaire, Rogers and other dancers
  • Change Partners (Berlin): danced by Astaire and Rogers

Reviews

For the lexicon of international film , trouble-free thanks to Dr. Flagg - Carefree a "[l] light-weight, entertaining musical comedy" from the late phase of "the popular dance duo Astaire / Rogers". The film comes up with “some attractive music and dance scenes”, but is “at best mediocre in terms of the scenery”. Cinema found the film "pleasant for the eyes and ears".

"The plot is disappointing and confuses the viewer," said Variety . Frank S. Nugent of the New York Times described the film as an “excellent musical comedy” that was “witty, cultivated” and “pleasing to the eye and ear”. For the film critic Leonard Maltin it was "Fred and Ginger's funniest film". He was "quirky and unconventional" and had "good" music by Irving Berlin.

Awards

At the Academy Awards in 1939 , the film was nominated in the three categories of Best Production Design , Best Film Music and Best Song ( Change Partners ). However, film architect Van Nest Polglase , composer Victor Baravalle and Irving Berlin were ultimately unable to prevail against the competition.

German version

A German dubbed version was created in 1985 on behalf of ARD.

role actor Voice actor
Tony Flagg Fred Astaire Eckart Dux
Amanda Cooper Ginger Rogers Andrea L'Arronge
Stephen Arden Ralph Bellamy Frank Engelhardt
Thomas Connors Jack Carson Klaus Guth

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c cf. Notes on tcm.com
  2. ↑ Carefree by Dr. Flagg - Carefree. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 18, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ "It's a disappointing story and leaves the viewer bewildered." See Carefree . In: Variety , 1938.
  5. ↑ " Carefree is in excellent musical comedy taste - witty, well-mannered, pleasant to look upon and listen to." Frank S. Nugent : Aptly Titled Is 'Carefree,' the Rogers and Astaire Film at the Music Hall . In: The New York Times , September 23, 1938.
  6. ^ "Fred and Ginger's most comic outing, wacky and offbeat, with good Irving Berlin score." Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide - The Modern Era . Peguin, 2017, p. 215.
  7. ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de