Blog posts mentioning Fred Astaire
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- Memories of a Time Gone By
Wonderful fan page; the complete package
- Fred Astaire Filmography
From the Internet Movie Database
- Astaire and Co.
Links to Astaire and those who acted with him
- 100 Years of Fred Astaire
CNN covers his 100th birthday
Fred Astaire Biography
Name at birth: Frederick Austerlitz
Fred Astaire was the American movie dancer of the 1930s and 1940s. Famed for his mixture of elegance and nice-guy charm, he was a popular romantic lead despite his lack of typical movie star good looks. His dance routines are a staple of movie highlight reels. He was often paired with dancing actress Ginger Rogers; their movies together included Flying Down to Rio (1933), Top Hat (1935), and Swing Time (1936).
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Astaire was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his non-dancing appearance in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno.
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