Dear "Ginge", Love Fred: Fred and Ginger's Correspondence
For one of cinema's most beloved screen partnerships, we don't know a whole lot about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers's offscreen relationship. Of course, there are the usual rumors. They hated each other! They were in love! As for hating each other, they spent their whole lives trying to disprove that one. Watch any interview of Fred in the 70s or 80s when he gets the inevitable "who was your favorite partner?" question. He'll try and avoid it for a while, but eventually the conversation always comes around to Ginger, who "had style and talent and improved as she went along. She got so that after a while everyone else who danced with me looked wrong." Fred's words. After their final movie together in 1949, The Barkleys of Broadway , all evidence shows that they stayed close. When they couldn't be together, dancing at parties or having dinner with their mutual friend and choreographer Hermes Pan, they wrote each ot