Who is Fred Astaire - The Best Dancer Ever
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Even though he was "before my time" I've always enjoyed the energy, expertise and humor of Fred Astaire's movies.
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- 'The Astaires,' by Kathleen Riley
- While the Hays Office in the mid-'30s was in its most censorial early days, its enforcers changing any plotline or dialogue from which they could squeeze sexual innuendo, they managed in their verbal vigilance to, myopically, overlook Fred Astaire's ...
- Fred Astaire Dance Studio grand opening fundraiser to benefit Redeem The Shadows
- On Friday, June 15, Fred Astaire Dance Studio is hosting a grand opening party and fundraiser to benefit Redeem The Shadows, a local nonprofit dedicated to ending human trafficking in the United States. Festivities include a beginners dance class ...
- Tony Danza, Chita Rivera, John Turturro, Karen Ziemba to Present at Astaire Awards
- The Astaire Awards are the only awards show to honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway and in film and were first started in 1982 by the late Fred Astaire and the late Douglas Watt. Chita Rivera ( ~© David Gordon )
- Great books: Fred Astaire, French actresses and film noir
- So here are three compelling, original, cinema-inclined new books: Fred Astaire authority Kathleen Riley has written the essential critical biography of the dashing, debonair singing/dancing star and his older (by 2 1/2 years), amazingly talented ...
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Top Hat
Perhaps the best remembered of the 10 Astaire/Rogers musicals, Top Hat has it all: Art Deco elegance, a wonderfully addled storyline, loopy support from skilled farceurs and the incomparable chemistry of the two leads cheek-to-cheeking to Irving Berlin's finest film score. It's a wake-up call for romance when Fred's exuberant No Strings dance in his hotel suite disturbs the sleeping beauty (Ginger) in the room below. They meet cute, Fred decides he'd like a few strings (preferably a tied knot) a...1 point
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Shall We Dance
To keep musical-comedy star Linda Keene from retiring to marry her manager Arthur Mille suggests to the press that she's already married to Petrov the ballet dancer. The two ultimately decide to marry so that they can have very public divorce and clear the air but true love blossoms between them.Running Time: 109 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:%uFFFDCOMEDY UPC:%uFFFD0539397255200 points
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Silk Stockings
You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Nina Yoshenka a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and capitalism. But there may be a thaw in Nina's cold war. She meets Steve Canfield a smoothly brash American who won't take nyet for an answer.Running Time: 117 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:%uFFFDCOMEDY UPC:%uFFFD0125695629290 points
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Swing Time
It's Swing Time anytime Fred and Ginger slip on their dancing shoes. Here Fred's a gambler with a fiancee back home...but one look at Ginger and all bets are off! He pursues she resists and it's all tied together by a series of breathtaking dances. "Bojangles of Harlem" a tribute to hoofer Bill Robinson has Astaire tapping with three giant Astaire shadows. The sly "Pick Yourself Up" features Ginger teaching the supposedly flub-footed Fred how to dance. Other highlights from the splendid Jerome K...0 points
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The Gay Divorcee
In one of their best loved most charming song-and-dance comedies Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers demonstrate just how they became best known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award(R) winning hit "The Continental." Year: 1934 Director: Mark Sandrich Starring: Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Alice BradyRunning Time: 105 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:%uFFFDMUSICALS/MUSICALS UPC:%uFFFD053939756920 Manufacturer No:%uFFFDT75690 points
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Daddy Long Legs
Fred Astaire becomes both the benefactor and suitor of Leslie Caron in this charming story of a playboy who falls under the spell of a beautiful French orphan. While traveling through France, Jervis Pendleton lll (Astaire) anonymously sponsors an 18-year-old girl named Julie (Caron), whom he sends to college in America. Two years later they finally meet face to face and start to fall in love. But complications arise and their happiness is threatened when Jervis embarks on a noble yet misguided a...0 points
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Roberta
Fun's in fashion when Fred, Ginger, Irene Dunn and Randolph Scott enter the world of Paris fashions. Marvelous Jerome Kern music graces standards like Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and I Won't Dance.0 points
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Follow the Fleet
All hands on deck! In the fifth of 10 Astaire/Rogers pairings, Fred trades his top hat for a sailor's cap, Randolph Scott gets the girl (pre-Nelson Harriet Hilliard), Ginger gets a tap solo and viewers get the unending delight of seven sparkling Irving Berlin numbers, including Let Yourself Go, We Saw the Sea, the Duo's zany I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket skit and their sublimely powerful Let's Face the Music and Dance. Astaire is Bake Baker, a hoofer now given to stepping a sailor's horn...0 points
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Who else but the fabulous Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the greatest dancing team of all time, could portray Vernon & Irene Castle, the renowned ballroom dancers of the years preceding World War I? Fred and Ginger dance up a storm as they dramatize the careers of the Castles. The pair first unite when Irene persuades Vernon to give up his corny vaudeville clowning to cultivate his obvious dancing abilities. After some lean years, a sharp agent sponsors the team and their rise to fame is phenom...0 points
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Finian's Rainbow
A mysterious Irishman, Finian, and his daughter arrive one day in a small Southern town of sharecroppers and plant a stolen crock of leprechaun gold.0 points
Blog Posts About Fred
- A YouTube Affair With Fred Astaire
- By JENNIFER B. MCDONALD Here is the best time an editor might ever have fact-checking: picking through a 3700-word essay on the song-and-dance partnership of Fred and Adele Astaire. In her review of a new biography of that partnership ? ?The Astaires ...
- Fred Astaire Dance Studio grand opening fundraiser to benefit Redeem The Shadows
- On Friday, June 15, Fred Astaire Dance Studio is hosting a grand opening party and fundraiser to benefit Redeem The Shadows, a local nonprofit dedicated to ending human trafficking in the United States. Festivities include a beginners dance class ...
- Tony Danza, Chita Rivera, John Turturro, Karen Ziemba to Present at Astaire Awards
- The Astaire Awards are the only awards show to honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway and in film and were first started in 1982 by the late Fred Astaire and the late Douglas Watt. Chita Rivera ( ~© David Gordon )
- Great books: Fred Astaire, French actresses and film noir
- So here are three compelling, original, cinema-inclined new books: Fred Astaire authority Kathleen Riley has written the essential critical biography of the dashing, debonair singing/dancing star and his older (by 2 1/2 years), amazingly talented ...
Fred Astaire Links
- Fred Astaire
- Soundtrack: The Green Mile. The son of an Austrian immigrant, Fred Astaire entered show business at age 5... Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites.
- Fred Astaire - Dance On Air
- A salute to the Silver Screen's greatest song-and-dance man.
- Fred Astaire at Reel Classics
- Contains a biography, photographs, sound and video clips, information about his movies and co-stars (especially Ginger Rogers), reviews, and background ...
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SoonerOrLater
Sep 25, 2011 @ 5:47 pm | delete
- My all time favorite was Holiday Inn where Mr. Astaire does some outrageous routines with Virgina Dale and Marjorie Reynolds. Fabulous!
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gunsock
Feb 7, 2011 @ 4:40 pm | delete
- Very enjoyable lens about one of my favorite stars. Thank you!
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MarkUpshaw Dec 4, 2010 @ 10:23 pm | delete
- Big Thumbs up. Fred Astaire was excellent. Lens rolled to my len of the day 7 Best Thanksgiving Movies lens for his work in Holiday Inn.
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My Favorite Fred Astaire Movie!
Top Hat
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