Fred Astaire
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American dancer, actor, and singer. Born in 1899, Astaire is widely regarded as the greatest popular-music dancer in film history. He is best known for his partnership with Ginger Rogers in a series of 1930s musicals, and for his later films such as Royal Wedding (1951) and The Band Wagon (1953). His choreography, filmed in long takes with the dancer's whole body in frame, set the standard for how dance is shot on film. He died in 1987.
Acted In
Musical, Comedy
A brother-and-sister dance act travels to London at the same time as the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. Tom Bowen, the brother, falls for a dancer in a rival show, while Ellen meets a British lord. The film is a light MGM musical built around Fred Astaire's dancing, and its famous sequence has Astaire dancing on the walls and ceiling of a hotel room, achieved with a rotating set and a nailed-down camera. Astaire also dances with a hat rack he treats as a partner. The story was loosely inspired by the real-life Astaire sibling act. Jane Powell plays his sister, and the score includes "Too Late Now." The film entered the public domain due to non-renewal of its copyright.
Musical · Comedy · Romance
Royal Wedding
1951 - as Tom Bowen
Musical, Comedy
Two rival college trumpet players and bandleaders compete for a job with Artie Shaw's orchestra and for the affections of their manager, who is rising in the music business faster than either of them. Fred Astaire and Paulette Goddard star in this Paramount musical. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
Musical · Comedy · Romance
Second Chorus
1940 - as Hank Terrell