Ginger Rogers as Roxie Hart in 1942 Ginger Roger's writes in her autobiography of starring as the title character in the 1942 film Roxie Hart: "On October 13, 1941, I began work on Roxie Hart for Twentieth Century-Fox. The film was based on the play Chicago, by Maurine Watkins, which in turn was based on newspaper reports of a murder. Roxie Hart was really a satire, and way ahead of its time. William Wellman was the director and Nunnally Johnson was both the producer and sce

Marjorie Reynolds and Fred Astaire in the New Year’s Eve scene in Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (1942) with choreography by Danny Dare....

Below is an account of the creation of "Chaconne" from Limón's memoir: "I was given the responsibility of devising a substantial solo...