Fred Astaire - The way you look to-night.mpg

At last the Academy acknowledges that it's possible to create movie musical magic without necessarily employing each and every chorus-dancer in Hollywood.Here's how it goes: Fred bursts in on Ginger while she's in the middle of washing her hair and sings this most intimate of love songs while her mop is covered with carefully coiffed soapsuds.As with "Thanks for the Memory" two years later, Astaire- who doesn't need to dance to put over a love song-demonstrates that sometimes the most awkwardly unlikely moments in a relationship can be the most tenderly touching.Note that Jerome Kern enhances his delightful melody with "humming" passages in between lines, making the song even most sensitively sweet.Incidentally , while Astaire sings this in more of a slow ballad tempo in the picture, his commercial version is strictly in dance time.