i just found this incredibly beautiful tribute in honor of rita hayworth's 90th birthday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVzWR6aDPA the creator of this...
it's called "dancers in film: a biographical encyclopedia" and amazon gives a release date of february 28 2009... i've been searching the web for any info but...
Ever since I discovered Fred Astaire, I seem find him everywhere. This week, alone, I found "glimpses"; of him on two different occasions. First, I watched an...
In "The Star Ledger" there was an article about Charlie Chaplin's son dying. It said: Actor Sydney Chaplin 82, son of "the Tramp". He died Tuesday at his...
I had read (sorry don't remember where) that it was ironic that FA could not convincingly portray being in a happy marriage on-screen, when he was actually...
i have favorites based on age. young fred astaire (top hat) older (holiday inn) older still( yolanda and the thief) (funny face ) ( finian's rainbow)...
This is a list that was compiled in 2007, so many of you are probably familiar with it, but it was new to me. There were only six musicals on the list:...
Does anyone have an opinion on whether Leading Couples: The Most Unforgettable Screen Romances of the Studio Era (Chronicle Books, 2008), author Frank Miller ...
I went to Lincoln Center yesterday to see WHIRL OF LIFE (1915), a Castles film. If anyone finds it playing elsewhere, do see it - it's still a real crowd...
Here are the announcements of upcoming Oxford concerts of the fabulous pianist, Jack Gibbons, who played at the Astaire conference. Holywell Music Room,...
I agree with you : The Oscar are for celebrating but not only. We hear so many speechs "politically correct" and little with "truth stand". Oscars are also the...
So I was reading the Wash Times and in the Show section there was a headline that read "Balanchine's exquisite rise to beauty." Above that in smaller print...
Have you ever wondered what some scenes from the FA movies might have been like (especially those in the early '30s) if FA did not have this aversion to...
I don't think any of you watch the show Privileged on the CW but on of the main characters sang "I'm Old Fashioned", and I know that Rita's character sang...
ann has a great chapter in this book describing her work with choreographers who weren't dancers themselves (scroll to the beginning of the chapter!): ...
I don't know whether I have become more sensitive, or there are just more oblique references to FA's work that I have seen recently. Last week, there was a...
The number four dance special remains elusive. Every time I visit New York City's Museum of Television and Radio, I try to check it out. I think that I've seen...
Fred recorded the 1946 version of Puttin' on the Ritz in the movie Blue Skies. You can see the video clip everywhere on the web. This version was a re-write by...
Just finished reading Charles Tranberg’s recent biography of Fred MacMurray. It does contain a brief mention of FA, in a reminiscence of Tom Poston: “I...
Hi all! I am wondering if anyone knows where I can get a copy of Fred's TV specials....or if it is even possible. I have almost completed my collection of his...
The worst Oscar show of all time, and the death knell for the show. So poorly directed that even cinematographers and directors I know were appalled. And the...
I just watched one of the people I idolize (Hugh Jackman) pay tribute to the other person I idolize (Mr. Astaire) in a great, big, lavish musical number at the...
Do we know whether Fred ever had an offer to appear on "The Muppets Show"? I assume he had, as old-time performers like Gene Kelly, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman,...
