| Ginger and Fred | |
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| Italian | Ginger e Fred |
| Directed by | Federico Fellini |
| Screenplay by | Federico Fellini Tonino Guerra Tullio Pinelli |
| Story by | Federico Fellini Tonino Guerra |
| Produced by | Alberto Grimaldi Heinz Bibo |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli Ennio Guarnieri |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Music by | Nicola Piovani Irving Berlin Jerome Kern Lorenz Hart |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Countries | Italy France West Germany |
| Languages | Italian English |
| Box office | $837,623[1] |
Ginger and Fred (Italian: Ginger e Fred) is a 1986 comedy-drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina.[2]
The title is a reference to the American dancing couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The two leads portray Italian impersonators of Astaire and Rogers who reunite after thirty years of retirement for a vulgar and bizarre television extravaganza.
The film was the subject of a trademark claim in the United States by Ginger Rogers, who claimed in Rogers v. Grimaldi that the film violated her Lanham Act trademark rights, right of publicity, and was a "false light" defamation.[3] The Second Circuit rejected this claim, finding that "suppressing an artistically relevant though ambiguous[ly] title[d] film" on trademark grounds would "unduly restrict expression."[4]
- ^ "Ginger & Fred".
- ^ "NY Times: Ginger and Fred". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-12-23. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ^ Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994 (2d Cir. 1989).
- ^ Rogers v. Grimaldi, 875 F.2d 994, at 1001.