So those big dance numbers, that kind of physical intimacy between Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, represented that kind of sexual ardor that movies just couldn't express in the ways that are much more open to us in the last 30 or 40 years.
Yes it is, and that's what suffuses every one of their scenes together, whether they're comparing meds, turning a misbegotten meal at a diner into an encounter of urgent intimacy or lowering their defenses long enough to practice for a dance competition that isn't as crazy as it seems.