...Charisse was reunited with Kelly in the 1955 Comden and Green musical “It’s Always Fair Weather,” and was teamed with Fred Astaire in “Silk Stockings” (1957). In the latter, an update of the Greta Garbo vehicle “Ninotchka,” she played an icy Soviet functionary...
...of “Snobbery,” has taken up Yale University Press’s offer (in a series called “Icons of America”) to write about Astaire. “Fred Astaire” is a very readable and glowing 50,000-word portrait, notwithstanding Epstein’s determination not to subject Fred to rough...
...night someone came and told you Fred Astaire was in the audience? TT: Well, I said to the stage manager, "Do not tell me if Fred Astaire is in the audience." Now, I never peek out at the audience through the curtain. But I looked out of the peek-place this...
...hair was going, his ears like handles, his jaw dropping and his personality bland. But Fred Astaire's bosses at RKO Pictures saw past all that. "Make perfection," they told him, and that is what he did – so much so that, 70 years later, those f ilms – among...
...that before. I love to hear the business side of things) - and signed with RKO. It was under the auspices of RKO that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made their many many films together. They were the biggest stars in the world. Those movies came at a time...
... The sibiling partnership that launched Fred Astaire into stardom Astaire—something in the name suggests brilliance, dazzle. Astaire implies “a star;” so, too, a stairway, (“with a new step every day”); Astarte is also, the mythologies report, the name of...
...WHO managed to drag a protesting Fred Astaire on to the dance floor found him disappointingly lacking in vim. That's because at social events he wasn't really much of a dancer. It was different when he was rehearsing or filming, of course. Then he was the...
...our performance, he looked at me and said: 'Guess I'm back on the road again.' Of all the stars to appear on Parkinson, Fred Astaire was the one I was most in awe of. I love dance, admire dancers greatly and have never seen anyone who even comes close to...
...Thomson, reviewing a new book on Fred Astaire by Joseph Epstein (Oct. 19), suggests that Astaire was not sensual or sexy. Thousands of women would passionately disagree. As an Astaire fan, I am gratified to see an appreciative new book about him, but I am...
...case, Joseph Epstein, the author of Snobbery (2002) and the former editor of The American Scholar, invokes Proust to compare Fred Astaire’s habitual pursuit of Ginger Rogers to Swann’s pursuit of Odette. For the rest of this mediocre brief biography, Mr. Epstein...