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Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, musician, and television presenter.
His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films and several award-winning television specials and issued numerous recordings. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of Old Hollywood by the American Film Institute. As a dancer, he is best remembered for his sense of rhythm, his legendary perfectionism, and as the dancing partner and on-screen romantic interest of Ginger Rogers, with whom he co-starred in a series of ten Hollywood musicals which transformed the genre.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire." Beyond film and television, many noted dancers and choreographers, including Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Madhuri Dixit, also acknowledged his importance and influence. Astaire ranks as the fifth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.
Swing Time - Rogers and Astaire
Fred Astaire Cuts Loose: 1970 Oscars
Fred Astaire's Famous Ceiling Dance
Fred Astaire's Best Scene - A Damsel in Distress
San Cisco - Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire - I Won't Dance, from Roberta
Fred Astaire - Cheek to Cheek
Fred Astaire. Put it on the Ritz.
Eleanor Powell & Fred Astaire "Begin the Beguine" Tap Dancing
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: Let's Face The Music And Dance 1936
Actors: Ben Matheny (actor), Owen Hornstein (writer), Owen Hornstein (director), Dawn Spatz (editor), Dawn Spatz (producer), James Roe (writer), Jacob McManus (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Mark Hanson (actor), Summer Selby (actress), John Carstarphen (writer), John Carstarphen (editor), John Carstarphen (director), Phyllis Cicero (actress), Angela Wilson (actress), Rebecca Rice (producer), Lloyd Barnes (actor), Laurel Hoitsma (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Henrique Amaral (actor), Henrique Amaral (costume designer), Bruno Garcia (actor), Heitor Dhalia (actor), Paulo Caldas (producer), Paulo Caldas (producer), Lírio Ferreira (producer), Virginia Cavendish (actress), Rivaldo Casado (actor), Rivaldo Casado (costume designer), Renata Pinheiro (actress), Paulo Falcão (actor), Marcelo Pinheiro (actor), Sandra Arraes (writer), Beto Normal (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Short, Thriller,Actors: Christine Gouze-Rénal (producer), Corinne Touzet (actress), Michel Tugot-Doris (actor), Lino Ventura (actor), Yves Vincent (actor), Guy Marchand (actor), Jean-Pierre Castaldi (actor), Niels Arestrup (actor), Roger Hanin (actor), Jean-Claude de Goros (actor), Sam Karmann (actor), Michel Piccoli (actor), Philippe Caroit (actor), Claude Bolling (composer), Roger Hanin (writer),
Plot: Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Melvyn Hayes (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Bruce Boa (actor), Keenan Wynn (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Sylvaine Charlet (actress), George Fowler (writer), Peter Curran (writer), Peter Curran (director), Peter Curran (editor), Hilary Pritchard (actress), Bruce Kenny (actor), Elizabeth Curran (producer), David Kawandami (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Gene Kelly (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), William Bailey (actor), Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (actor), William Frawley (actor), Rex Evans (actor), Fred Astaire (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Peter Lawford (actor),
Plot: In heaven, showman 'Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.' (qv) fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Even from heaven, he is hoping that he can, for one last time, create that same magic by mounting one last follies. As he thinks about who he would like to appear in these follies, he is assisted in realizing his fantasy, at least in his own mind, by such luminaries as 'Fred Astaire' (qv), 'Edward Arnold (I)' (qv), 'Lucille Ball', 'Marion Bell' (qv), 'Lucille Bremer' (qv), 'Fanny Brice' (qv), 'Cyd Charisse' (qv), 'Judy Garland' (qv), 'Kathryn Grayson' (qv), 'Lena Horne' (qv), 'Gene Kelly (I)' (qv), 'James Melton (I)' (qv), 'Victor Moore (I)' (qv), 'Virginia O'Brien' (qv), 'Red Skelton' (qv), 'Esther Williams (I)' (qv), 'Keenan Wynn' (qv), and, of course, a bevy of beautiful girls.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, bag-of-golf-clubs, ballerina, ballet, ballroom-dancing, bird-on-shoulder, bubble, camera-shot-of-a-woman's-legs, carouselActors: Nathaniel Shilkret (composer), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Mark Daniels (actor), Max Terr (composer), Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas (actor), Robert Blake (actor), Leon Bourgeau (editor), Billy 'Froggy' Laughlin (actor), Janet Burston (actress), Tommy McFarland (actor), Janet Burston (actress), Sam Baerwitz (writer), Sam Baerwitz (director), Frank Ward (actor), Joan Blake (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short,In this Swing Time clip, Lucky, Astaire, saves Penny's, Rogers, job by showing how much she has taught him. The first true dance number with the two, the other being with Fred fumbling and pretending to be a terrible dancer. Both scenes, however, go to the same song, Pick Yourself Up, this scene without lyrics and much more lively with the other more calm, with lyrics, between the two. Music by Jerome Kern and Lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Fred Astaire and Bob Hope present the Academy Awards for Documentary Feature to Bernard Chevry for Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life, and for Documentary Short Subject to Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco for Czechoslovakia 1968 at the 42nd Academy Awards. Orchestra conducted by Elmer Bernstein.
Personal favorite of mine, this is a Wonderful Astaire "Ceiling" Dance Number by means of a literally revolving set on the 1951 MGM Classic Film 'Royal Wedding'.
San Cisco's official music video for 'Fred Astaire'. Click to listen to San Cisco on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/SCSpot?IQid=SCFA As featured on San Cisco. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes: http://smarturl.it/SCSCiTunes?IQid=SCFA Google Play: http://smarturl.it/SCFAPlay?IQid=SCFA Amazon: http://smarturl.it/SCSCAm?IQid=SCFA More from San Cisco Beach: https://youtu.be/7pl2L-ldozI Too Much Time Together (Live): https://youtu.be/G1uRSiGwEM0 Follow San Cisco Website: http://www.sancisco.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sanciscomusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanciscomusic Instagram: https://instagram.com/sanciscodisco Subscribe to San Cisco on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/SCSub?IQid=SCFA More great Ultimate Hits of the Noughties videos here: http://smarturl.it/UNPlaylist...
Here's the full "I Won't Dance" number from "Roberta." It starts with Fred playing what earlier in the film he calls "dirty piano." And how about Ginger in that dress! Wow!
Fred Astaire performing "Cheek to Cheek" in the movie "Top Hat" (1935). I'm uploading cause i found only the video with spanish subs so if u dont need them this one should be better ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheek_to_Cheek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Hat Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak; And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek. Heaven, I'm in Heaven, And the cares that hang around me thro' the week Seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky streak When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek. Oh! I love to climb a mountain, And to reach the highest peak, But it doesn't thrill me half as much As dancing cheek to cheek. Oh! I love to...
Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell - Broadway Melody of 1940, the second half of the "Begin the Beguine" number. The first half was a tango, formal jacket and long white dress, the kind of stuff Fred did with all his partners, except that he didn't have to cover for Eleanor Powell or maneuver fancy steps around her. She could dance as well as he did. And the second half was this-no fancy dress, no fuss, the two of them dancing side by side, full-length shot and one long, unbroken take. He tapped a combination, she echoed it, snapping the steps out in precision time, he did another, she answered, neither of them looking at the other, each of them intent on the music. Not intent. Wrong word. There was no concentration in them at all, no effort, they might have made up the whole routine just n...
Sorry about the widescreen mode - I can't alter it - anyway here is Fred and Ginger dancing what I think is their masterpiece - i would also have just tipped Irving Berlin's great song to win the academy award over Kern's The Way You Look Tonight
San Cisco performs "Fred Astaire" LIVE at Billboard's New York Studio, August 2013. SUBSCRIBE http://bit.ly/BillboardSub for more exclusive performances and music interviews, and in-depth coverage of the world's biggest music events.
For exclusive Moshcam content, click here to SUBSCRIBE: http://moshc.am/MoshcamSubscribe To watch the full San Cisco playlist, click here: http://moshc.am/SanCiscoLive —————————— San Cisco performing Stella live at Metro Theatre in Sydney on 9 June 2013, exclusively on Moshcam. From humble beginning of weekend jams to being nominated for a 2011 Unearthed J Award and finding themselves at #7 on triple j's Hottest 100 countdown, San Cisco have set themselves apart from their counterparts with their rough low-fi garage pop energy and depth of song-writing. The four piece have since recorded their debut album, released in 2012. The band consists of Jordi Davieson (guitar, lead vocals), Josh Biondillo (guitar, vocals), Nick Garner (bass) and Scarlett Stevens (drums, vocals). —————————— Con...
http://KEXP.ORG presents San Cisco performing "Fred Astaire" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded April 2, 2013. Host: Cheryl Waters Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Scott Holpainen & Justin Wilmore Editor: Patrick Gateley http://kexp.org http://www.sancisco.com
Awsome tapdance scene with 2 of the very best dancers - Stepptanz mit 2 der besten Tänzern - Ever worked out an argue within a dance? They do! - Impressive Body-Talk
San Cisco performs Fred Astaire in live concert at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles, California on 03/10/2015. www.sancisco.com www.facebook.com/sanciscomusic
Live on Later with Jools Holland 1999
This is a video of Lucky Boys Confusion at the Knitting Factory from when they were very young performing Fred Astaire. This is an amazing song and performance from one of the most underrated bands in the world.
An Evening With James with the Orchestra Of The Swan and the Manchester Consort choir performing Just Like Fred Astaire live at the Royal Albert Hall, London on 4th November 2011.
3voor12 Radio komt live vanaf SXSW, San Ciso is te gast en speelt Fred Astaire 3voor12 is het muziekplatform van de VPRO. Op de site http://3voor12.vpro.nl vind je de Luisterpaal met de laatste releases, een overzicht in beeld en geluid van alle toffe festivals in Nederland plus het laatste popnieuws en interviews.
See the full interview at http://emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/barbara-walters Barbara Walters on the difficulty of interviewing Fred Astaire. For more on this and over 600 interviews, please visit emmytvlegends.org
Fred Astaire (10th May 1899 - 22nd June 1987) and Ginger Rogers (16th July 1911 - 25th April 1995) were iconic dance partners who made motion pictures together from 1933 -1949. They made a total of 10 movies, 9 with RKO Radio Pictures and one, The Barkleys of Broadway, with M-G-M, their only colour (Technicolour) movie.
Hollywood legend Fred Astaire accepts the 9th AFI Life Achievement Award (1981). Subscribe to this channel for more exclusive videos from the AFI Archive: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AFI Follow AFI: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanFilmInstitute https://twitter.com/AmericanFilm https://instagram.com/americanfilminstitute http://americanfilminstitute.tumblr.com http://www.afi.com
More hard to find videos featuring Ginger Rogers available at: http://keep-it-gingery-ginger-rogers.blogspot.ca/2012/04/tv-appearances-1980s-up-for-trade.html?utm_source=BP_recent
Interview with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire by Monique Berger on soundscape funds in Paris, France during the production of Funny Face, 1956. © Copyright Ina.fr http://www.ina.fr/ French to English Translation by Audrey Guiet. Twitter: @__AudreyG__ Video by Rare Audrey Hepburn http://rareaudreyhepburn.com/
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire present the Oscars for Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) to Robert Bolt for A Man for All Seasons, and for Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) to Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven for A Man and a Woman, at the 39th Academy Awards. Hosted by Bob Hope.
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Ethel Waters chats with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly about her early career and sings "Cabin in the Sky" in this rare 1976 TV appearance.
I thought that nothing could help
To avoid depressions inside me
Fatalistic words passed my mind
Fear and hate and darkness around me
You came, you carefull tried
Not to show your wonders about me
Many talks, they turned step by step
Into novels, all made to change me
Just a summer love affair
Made me feel like Fred Astaire
Jumping up and up and flyin' around
Your love lifts me off the ground
I thought that nothing could help
To avoid depressions inside me
Many talks, they turned step by step
Into novels, all made to change me
Just a summer love affair
Made me feel like Fred Astaire
Jumping up and up and flyin' around