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Follow the Fleet Overview:

Follow the Fleet (1936) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Mark Sandrich and produced by Pandro S. Berman.

The film was based on the play Shore Leave written by Hubert Osborne performed in 1922.

SYNOPSIS

When he is rejected by his lady love, a song-and-dance man enlists in the navy. The estranged couple later meet again and join forces to solve the romantic difficulties of another star-crossed pair. An Astaire-Rogers musical featuring some of Irving Berlin's best songs, including "Let's Face the Music and Dance," "Let Yourself Go," and "We Saw the Sea." Typical but delightful.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Follow the Fleet BlogHub Articles:

THE FRED ASTAIRE AND GINGER ROGERS BLOGATHON: Follow the Fleet (1936)

on Jul 21, 2018 From Caftan Woman

Crystal of In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Michaela of Love Letters to Old Hollywood are hosting The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Blogathon on July 20th - 22nd. It's like a party on the internet! You can find the contributions by clicking HERE or HERE. Randolph Scott, Fred ... Read full article

THE FRED ASTAIRE AND GINGER ROGERS BLOGATHON: Follow the Fleet (1936)

on Jul 21, 2018 From Caftan Woman

Crystal of In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Michaela of Love Letters to Old Hollywood are hosting The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Blogathon on July 20th - 22nd. It's like a party on the internet! You can find the contributions by clicking HERE or HERE. Randolph Scott, Fred ... Read full article

Follow the Fleet (1936)

By Cameron on Jul 12, 2018 From The Blonde At The Film

via: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2785/Follow-the-Fleet/#tcmarcp-172408-172407 Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. Follow the Fleet (1936) was Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire‘s fifth film together. By the time they made this movie, they’d appeared in Flying Down to Rio (1933... Read full article

Astaire and Rogers let themselves go in... Follow the Fleet (1936)

By Michaela on May 21, 2016 From Love Letters to Old Hollywood

Yesterday, we swam around the pool with Esther Williams. Today, we match taps with Fred and Ginger. Follow the Fleet is, to me, pretty underrated. Sometimes it can feel like all you hear about is Top Hat, Swing Time, and The Gay Divorcee, which are all great films, but come on, there's more out ther... Read full article

CMBA Blogathon: The Fabulous Films of the 30s – Follow the Fleet (1936)

By Annmarie Gatti on Apr 27, 2015 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

The Fabulous Films of the 30′s: Follow the Fleet starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and… I distinctly remember the first time I saw Follow the Fleet.  It was many years ago, during one of those ‘vacation weeks’ between Christmas and New Years. I was staying up really late, tho... Read full article

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Follow the Fleet Quotes:

Bilge Smith: This is a lucky night for me Baby. You're just my type of girl.
Connie Martin: Oh really? I would have thought you were the kind of man who never gives girls a tumble.
Bilge Smith: Say, you've got some very funny ideas about me. Oh, I admit I've been around, but I've never met one like you, Baby.
Bake Baker: Sherry tells me you're leaving. Well, that's probably the wisest thing to do. Run away! All this stuff about fighting for your man and all that makes things so complicated. Now, if all girls would just give up and run back to Bellport, then we'd definitely see the end of family life, little Junior would remain just an idea, and every man would burn his own toast. I thank you!
Bilge Smith: Hi ya Baby.
Connie Martin: Hello Sailor.
Bilge Smith: So you know my name.
Connie Martin: Sure. Haven't we met before?
Bilge Smith: Now that's what I should have said.
Connie Martin: No, but -- haven't we?
Bilge Smith: Not a chance! Think I could forget a face like yours?
Bake Baker: [singing] I've been a roaming Romeo. My Juliet's have been many. But now my roaming days have gone. Too many irons in the fire is worse than not having any. I've had my share and from now on... I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. I'm betting everything I've got on you. I'm giving all my love to one baby. Heaven help me if my baby don't come through. I've got a great big amount saved up in my love account. Honey, and I've decided, love divided in two won't do. So I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. I'm betting everything I've got on you.
Connie Martin: [singing] Get thee behind me, Satan I want to resist. But the moon is low and I can't say "No". Get thee behind me. Get thee behind me, Satan I mustn't be kissed. But the moon is low and I may let go. Get thee behind me. Someone I'm mad about Is waiting in the night for me. Someone that I mustn't see. Satan, get thee behind me. He promised to wait. But I won't appear and he may come here. Satan, he's at my gate. Get thee behind me. Stay where you are. It's too late..
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Follow the Fleet Facts
The role of Connie Martin was originally planned for Irene Dunne, but she was unavailable.
During the fight scene between Fred Astaire and Randolph Scott, Astaire - not skilled in movie fight scenes - accidentally bloodied Scott's nose; Astaire was mortified, but Scott remained pointedly nonchalant.
For the dance number "Let Yourself Go," choreographer Hermes Pan scouted several talented amateurs from Los Angeles dance halls. The best couple was spliced into the routine.
Irving Berlin wrote "Get Thee Behind Me, Satan" for Fred and Ginger's previous movie, Top Hat, but the song was dropped.
The song 'Get Thee Behind me, Satan' was edited in prints shown in Great Britain to remove the word 'Satan' (which offended the overly prudish censorship board). The result looks and sounds as though the film is faulty and jumps several frames each time the line is sung, but the effect was deliberate and a highly unusual example of censorship, possibly the only time a popular song was edited in this way.
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