Sunday, April 6, 2008

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (May 101899 – June 221987), born Frederick Austerlitz in OmahaNebraska,[1] was an Academy Award-winning American film and Broadway stage dancerchoreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.

George Balanchine and Rudolph Nureyev rated him the greatest dancer of the twentieth century, and he is generally acknowledged to have been the most influential dancer in the history of film and television musicals.[2] He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

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