Considering close to a hundred years have passed since then, it's not too surprising that you've probably never heard the first tune to ever win that prestigious honor, though the dancing duo who starred in the movie are still iconic: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
An adaptation of a Broadway play called The Gay Divorce, the musical comedy tells the story of Guy Holden (Astaire), an American dancer vacationing in England who falls in love with Mimi Glossop (Rogers), who's trying to get a divorce from her geologist husband. Hilarity ensues, naturally, along with plenty of singing and dancing — and that's where the Oscar-winning song comes in.
It's something daring, The ContinentalA way of dancing that's really ultra-newIt's very subtle, The ContinentalBecause it doеs what you want it to doIt has a passion, The ContinentalAn invitation to moonlight and romanceIt's quitе the fashion, The ContinentalBecause you tell of your love while you dance
Not only did "The Continental" win the first Oscar for "Best Original Song," but The Gay Divorcee nabbed nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Picture.
Ginger Rogers, Fred AstairePhoto by John Kobal Foundation on Getty Images
“Our emotions were high-pitched. He didn’t like my dress and I didn’t like being put to the test,” Rogers wrote in her autobiography, Ginger: My Story, per Vanity Fair. “In our rehearsal for camera, it’s true, some of the feathers did flutter and annoy Fred. He muttered to himself as he plucked the feathers off his tailcoat. Instead of ‘Cheek to Cheek,’ that song should have been called ‘Horn to Horns.’”
“I never saw so many feathers in my life. It was like a snowstorm,” he wrote. “They were floating around like millions of moths. I had feathers in my eyes, my ears, my mouth, all over the front of my suit…the feathers kept flying, the wardrobe lady shook the dress and the sweepers swept them up…it got to be funny after a while. The news went all over the lot that there was a blizzard on the Top Hat set. The sightseers poured in on us.”
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