Fred Astaire
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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- Salad Days Defined
- Howard G ?Youth is believing that someday you'll dance like Fred Astaire.? Jacqueline Friedrich ?My late aunt used to describe youth as 'too young for ...
- TV Today | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/07/2009
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (8 pm, 6ABC) - A mailman with the voice of Fred Astaire explains Santa's origins in this 1970 animated special. ...
- Holiday classic comes to Charles Allis Art Museum
- Add a big helping of song and dance courtesy of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, and a little romance, and you've got "Holiday Inn," the film that introduced ...
- The busiest official you might not know
- CORY YOUNG / Tulsa World By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer To say Phil Wood kept a low profile during 21 years as city auditor is to say Fred Astaire was ...
Great Fred Astaire stuff from Amazon
Top Hat
Amazon Price: $5.79 (as of 12/07/2009) 
Steppin' Out: Astaire Sings
Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 12/07/2009)
Swing Time
Amazon Price: $5.79 (as of 12/07/2009)
Astaire & Rogers Collection, Vol. 1 (Top Hat / Swing Time / Follow the Fleet / Shall We Dance / The Barkleys of Broadway)
Amazon Price: $23.39 (as of 12/07/2009)
Fred Astaire on Wikipedia
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films with.
According to another major innovator in filmed dance, Gene Kelly, "Category: q - :Fred Astaire#Classical dancers and choreographers on Astaire|The history of dance on film begins with Astaire." Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreograp...
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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...0 points
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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
Fred Astaire on Flickr
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Blog Posts
- 15 Movie Quotes to Celebrate Fred Astaire's Birthday | discount review
- Ready to celebrate the birth of an entertainment great with some classic movie quotes? Fred Astaire's birthday is right around the corner and what better way to.
- Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but ...
- Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. /Faith Whittlesey.
- Fred Astaire + Michael Jackson – Smooth Criminal [short film]
- FRED ASTAIRE in SMOOTH CRIMINAL Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron Choreographed by Michael Kidd 'Smooth Criminal' by Michael Jackson Video edited by CFJ I love both Astaire and Michael Jackson. ...
- Michael Jackson last song » Blog Archive » Fred Astaire + Michael ...
- FRED ASTAIRE in SMOOTH CRIMINAL Starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron Choreographed by Michael Kidd 'Smooth Criminal' by Michael Jackson Video edited by CFJ Here's a high quality version of the video that I posted over a ...
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Fred on Twitter
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- JamieHowardHaha
- I hopped out of bed this morning like Fred Astaire. Or anyone else, really, who has been dead for 20 years.
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- anilts8
- I favorited a YouTube video -- Fred Astaire + Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal [short film] HQ http://bit.ly/2a5q8K
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- STRICTLY_QUOTE
- @Gardencomet Thanks for the shout out for my Strictly Quote book. Am halfway through the Fred Astaire book ... s/be out in Late Jan. #scd
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- mozcelebi
- #nowplaying Fred Astaire - One for My Baby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD7sqGJ3NBg the original :)
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- Kalaeallday
- RT @YCtheCynic: "They're unaware...but most these artists would never care cuz their in a damn office doing the Fred Astaire, for endors ...
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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