---
title: 'Carefree (1938)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mark Sandrich'
released: '1938-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 83
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/carefree-1938'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029971/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Carefree (1938)

1938 · 83 min · Comedy, Music · United States


## Synopsis

Carefree is a 1938 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Ralph Bellamy. With a plot similar to screwball comedies of the period, Carefree is the shortest of the Astaire–Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers. Carefree is often remembered as the film in which Astaire and Rogers shared a long on-screen kiss at the conclusion of their dance to "I Used to Be Color Blind"; all previous kisses having been either quick pecks or simply implied.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mark Sandrich](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-sandrich)
- **Screenplay:** [Allan Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/allan-scott), [Ernest Pagano](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-pagano)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Irving Berlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-berlin), [Victor Baravalle](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-baravalle)
- **Producer:** [Pandro S. Berman](https://cinepixo.com/people/pandro-s-berman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Robert De Grasse](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-de-grasse)
- **Editor:** [William Hamilton](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-hamilton)

## Cast

- [Ginger Rogers](https://cinepixo.com/people/ginger-rogers)
- [Fred Astaire](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-astaire)
- [Dick Lane](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-lane)
- [Paul Guilfoyle](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-guilfoyle-2)
- [Hattie McDaniel](https://cinepixo.com/people/hattie-mcdaniel)
- [Clarence Kolb](https://cinepixo.com/people/clarence-kolb)
- [Franklin Pangborn](https://cinepixo.com/people/franklin-pangborn)
- [Edward Gargan](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-gargan)
- [Vinton Hayworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/vinton-hayworth)
- [Jack Carson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-carson)
- [Walter Kingsford](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-kingsford)
- [Jimmy Finlayson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jimmy-finlayson)
- [Charles Pearce Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-pearce-coleman)
- [Ralph Bellamy](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-bellamy)

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