Follow the Fleet (1936) on Netflix
Passed19361h 50mComedyMusicalRomance
The Navy fleet docks in San Francisco, and sailor Bake Baker looks up Sherry Martin, a ballroom hostess and his former dance partner. His shipmate Bilge Smith meets Sherry's sister Connie.
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Plot summary
Bake Baker and Sherry Martin once danced as a team. He is in the Navy now, and she earns her living as a hostess in a San Francisco ballroom called Paradise. The fleet arrives for a period of liberty, and Bake brings his friend Bilge Smith along to see her. The reunion costs Sherry her job. Bilge takes an interest in Connie, Sherry's sister, but when Connie talks about marriage he shifts his attention to Iris Manning, a socialite friend of Sherry's who is divorced. The sailors go back to sea, and Connie sets out to raise the money to save the sailing ship that belonged to her father, a sea captain who has died.
Cast
- Ray Mayeras Dopey Williams
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Follow the Fleet (1936)
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- The "Let's Face the Music and Dance" number was filmed in one continuous shot lasting two minutes and fifty seconds, with Ginger Rogers's dress heavily weighted to control its swirling. During the first take the dress hit Astaire in the face, but he picked that take out of twenty for the finished film.
- Britain's censors bleeped the word "Satan" out of Harriet Hilliard's song "Get Thee Behind Me Satan", and the critic Graham Greene denounced that censorship by the British Board of Film Censors.
- Ginger Rogers's solo tap routine in Follow the Fleet was the only solo tap dance she performed in her ten films with Fred Astaire.
- Two songs written for Follow the Fleet, "Moonlight Maneuvers" and "With a Smile on My Face", were never used in the film.
