Follow the Fleet


Follow the Fleet RKO is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme which stars Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and features Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in supporting roles. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich with script by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor based on the 1922 play Shore Leave by Hubert Osborne.

Seaman Bake Baker Fred Astaire and Sherry Ginger Rogers are former dance partners, now separated, with Baker in the Navy and Sherry working as a dance hostess in a San Francisco ballroom, Paradise.Bake visits the ballroom with his Navy buddy Bilge Randolph Scott during a period of liberty, reuniting with Sherry while Bilge is initially attracted to Sherrys sister Connie Harriet Hilliard. When Connie begins to talk about marriage, Bilge quickly diverts his attention towards a friend of Sherrys, Iris Astrid Allwyn, a divorced socialite. ........

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