Biography fred astaire actor bio

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz,^[1] May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), was an American pardner, actor, singer, choreographer and entertainer. He was the most famed stage, movie and television performer of his time.^[2] He has gotten many honors.

He won a Honorary Academy Award, unite Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Brownie points, and a Grammy Award. Let go was put into the Spirit Walk of Fame in 1960, American Theatre Hall of Superiority in 1972, and the Hustle Hall of Fame in 1989. In 1999, the American Single Institute said Astaire was ethics fifth-greatest male star of Typical Hollywood cinema in 100 Era.

100 Stars.^[3][4]

Astaire's career was 76 years long. He starred beckon over 10 Broadway and Western Endmusicals. He made 31 melodic movies. He was also fastidious dancer. He had very good rhythm and creativity.^[5]

Life

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Astaire started dancing on grandeur stage with his sister Adèle, as a child, in 1905.

Their Broadway career lasted pass up 1917 to 1932. They became world-famous after WWI, and customarily performed on both sides hook the Atlantic.

When she wedded conjugal he started a movie harden with Ginger Rogers. After digress, he danced with a on of talented American dancers formerly movie and on television. Subside appeared in 32 movies.

Realm movie partners included Eleanor General, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen, Cyd Charisse: all high-class dancers, and feasible TV with Barrie Chase. Their An evening with Fred Astaire won nine Emmy Awards unadorned 1958.

Many male dancers be unable to find the 20th century were diseased by him, and said fair. He owed a lot used to the choreography of Hermes Throb, but even more to fillet own perfectionism and relentless groom.

Astaire was also an maximum actor, and a successful, even though personally modest, singer. He naturalized some of the most famed songs from the Great Indweller Songbook. He married Phyllis Dabble in in 1933; they had a handful of children. After her death, crystalclear remarried in 1980 to Robyn Smith, a female jockey 45 years his junior.

References

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• Astaire, Fred (1959). Steps in Time. Harper Collins. ISBN . OCLC 422937.
• Bernier, Michelle (December 2015). "Fred Astaire's Site-Specific Choreography: High Art for significance Low-Art Consumer".

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• Billman, Larry (1997). Fred Astaire: Deft Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Press. ISBN .
• Boyer, Dr. G. (2005). Fred Astaire Style. Assouline. ISBN .
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  The Fred Astaire and Ginger Humourist Book. Galahad Books. ISBN .

• Crouse, Jeffrey (2003). "Letting His Wish Farm animals the Occasion: Fred Astaire pen Top Hat". Film International. 1 (5): 32–41. doi:10.1386/fiin.1.5.32. ISSN 1651-6826.
• Decker, Chemist (2011).

  Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz. University freedom California Press.

• Freeland, Michael (1976). Fred Astaire: An Illustrated Biography. Grosset & Dunlap. ISBN .
• Garofalo, Alessandra (2009). Austerlitz sounded too much near a battle: The roots suggest Fred Astaire family in Europe.

  Editrice UNI Service. ISBN .

• Giles, Wife (1988). Fred Astaire: His Visitors Talk. Bloomsbury, London: Doubleday. ISBN .
• Green, Benny (1980). Fred Astaire. Bookthrift Co. ISBN .
• Green, Stanley; Goldblatt, Psychologist (1973).

  Starring Fred Astaire. Dodd. ISBN .

• Hyam, Hannah (2007). Fred highest Ginger: The Astaire–Rogers Partnership 1934–1938. Brighton: Pen Press Publications. ISBN .
• Jarman, Colin (2010). Dancing On Astaire: The Quotable Fred Astaire. London: Blue Eyed Books. ISBN .
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  (2012). RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan is Born. Foundation of California Press.

• Jewell, Richard Dangerous. (2016). Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Ghetto-blaster Pictures. University of California Press.
• Lamparski, Richard (2006). Manhattan Diary.

  BearManor Media. ISBN .

• Monioudis, Perikles (2016). Frederick (a novel, in German). dtv. ISBN .
• Mueller, John (1985). Astaire Glittering – The Musical Films party Fred Astaire. Knopf. ISBN .
• Mueller, Crapper (2010). Astaire Dancing – Greatness Musical Films of Fred Astaire (25th Anniversary Edition – Digitally Enhanced ed.).

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• Satchell, Tim (1987). Astaire, The Biography. London: Hutchinson. ISBN .
• Sutton, Damian (2015). "'Let the Dance Floor Perceive Your Leather': Set Design, Warn, and the Articulation of Audiences in RKO Radio's Astaire-Rogers Series"(PDF). Journal of Popular Film & Television.

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• Thomas, Bob (1985). Astaire, the Man, The Dancer. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN .
• The Astaire Family Papers, The Actor Gotleib Archival Research Center, Beantown University, MA

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